Teaching Highlights

• Developed Pavement Engineering, a graduate multidisciplinary program/concentration within the geotechnical engineering unit, which did not exist prior to my joining at UNM. This program is unique in the entire state of New Mexico.
• Developed 5 new graduate courses and restructured 2 exiting courses, which have substantially strengthened the graduate course offerings in pavement engineering program.
• Developed and equipped 3 state-of-the-art laboratories from scratch. These laboratories are now used to teach graduate and undegraded classes in civil/geotech/pavement engineering
• Played a key role in increasing the enrollment in geotechnical engineering graduate program. The number of graduate students in geotechnical program increased from 5 (in 2006) to over 25 (in 2016, peak) - a growth of about 400% over a period of 10 years
• Strong track-record of recruiting underrepresented students (8 women in M.S., 4 women in Ph.D., 3 Hispanic origin men in M.S., 10 minority undergrad, 4 high school students) in research
• Taught (at UNM) a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate classes in geotechnical and pavement engineering topics (10 different courses) with an average teaching evaluation of above 90% out of maximum possible evaluation (max. 100%)
• Experienced as a university professor (23 yrs., since 2003) and a licensed professional engineer, which is preferred for teaching senior (year) design courses in civil engineering discipline