Mbakisya A. Onyango博士
美国田纳西大学查塔努加分校基金会(UC Foundation)副教授
土木与化学工程系
堪萨斯州立大学土木工程博士(2009年)
学科方向:土木工程
Mbakisya Onyango博士,田纳西大学查塔努加分校(UTC)土木与化学工程系加州大学基金会的副教授。专业领域包括分析性机械路面的设计与分析、土木工程材料测试与评估、路面维护、路面标线、使用聚酯层材料进行路面维护、交通规划,以及路面管理与评估。毕业于堪萨斯州立大学,主修运输工程专业,获土木工程专业博士学位,于2010年1月就职于UTC。目前担任交通研究委员会(TRB)大学代表、国际研讨会交通运输环境可持续发展系统方法分会技术委员,同时在寒冷气候环境可持续运输中心(CESTiCC)工作,从事三个项目研究,分别为:田纳西州机械经验性路面设计指导部门(MEPDG)交通数据输入研究,使用聚酯层材料进行路面维护的研究,以及使用加速路面试验对柔性路面结构中土工合成材料加筋体进行评估的研究。这三个项目由TDOT资助,总投入为37.3万美元。
Dr. Mbaki Onyango is U.C. Foundation Professor in the Civil and Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). She graduated with a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from Kansas State University, USA and master’s in international Highway Engineering from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. At UTC she teaches civil engineering undergraduate and graduate classes and conducts research in transportation, construction materials and STEM Education areas. Her research areas of interest include analytical and mechanistic pavement design and analysis, civil engineering materials testing and evaluation, pavement preservation, and pavement management and evaluation. Since joining UTC in 2010, she has attracted research funding to the amount of $ 2.7 million as PI or Co-PI including funding from CEACSE, TDOT, ORNL and NSF. Collectively with her collaborators, she has over 50 journal publications and conference proceedings. She has advised over 100 undergraduate students and supervised 10 graduate students’theses.