An overview of my experience with the Pavement Design Construction and Materials Enterprise.

1. Pavement Design Construction and Materials
Michigan Technological University

2. PDCM Overview
Pavement Design Construction and Materials
Group Member | Spring 2006 through Spring 2008
The goal of the Enterprise program is to get students involved and
working with industry on real industry projects. This Enterprise was
formed by a generous donation from Bob Thompson in 2000. Visit
www.pavementscholars.mtu.edu for more information.
The Enterprise two year project based curriculum compensates for
the Senior Design project. Each year PDCM also hosts in-house
versions of the national level Bidding and Asphalt Design
competitions that the Enterprise has seen strong success in winning
regional and national first place finishes.

3. Leadership
Executive Board
Treasurer | Fall 2007
Class Representative | Several Terms
Awards
Scholarship Recipient | Spring 2008
Scholarship Recipient | Spring 2007
Scholarship Recipient | Fall 2006
Member of the Month| Two Times
-Scholarship availability varied from year to year
Adopt-A-Highway Volunteer | Two Times

4. Project Team
Pavement Management Business Plan
Team Member | Spring 2008
Objective:
To develop a profitable business plan for the Enterprise based on
Asphalt Pavement Management using PASER rating methodology and
to identify associated startup costs, overhead and labor expenses, and
related client fees related to a venture of this sort.
Outcome:
A recommendation report was submitted to the PDCM Advisory
Board. The project was later eliminated due to complexities not
desired by the Enterprise at this time.

5. Project Team
Real Time Quality Control Roadbed Assessment Transmitter
Project Manager | Spring 2007 Project Manager| Fall 2007
Objective:
To develop a wireless concrete maturity meter in collaboration with
the Integrated Microsystems Enterprise. The PDCM commitment was
to develop a casing that would protect the electronics from the
corrosive environment of concrete while helping it fit into the
aggregate matrix.
Outcome:
A dodecahedron shape casing molding process using epoxy was
developed and the electronic was cased and successfully transmitted
test signals from within a small batch of concrete.

6. Project Team
Real Time Quality Control Roadbed Assessment Transmitter
Project Manager | Spring 2007 Project Manager| Fall 2007
Images of Casing:

7. Project Team
City of Houghton Capital Improvement Plan
Team Member| Fall 2006
Objective:
To PASER rate the City of Houghton road network and input the data
into RoadSoft GIS for analysis to develop a pavement asset
management plan.
Outcome:
Fall 2006 was the third year of data points where a deterioration
curve was starting to present itself. A report and pavement
management recommendations were submitted to the PDCM
Advisory Board

8. Project Team
City of Houghton Capital Improvement Plan
Team Member| Fall 2006
Images:

9. Project Team
Madeline Island Capital Improvement Plan
Team Member| Spring 2006
Objective:
To PASER rate the Madeline Island road network and input the data
into RoadSoft GIS for analysis to develop a pavement asset
management plan for specific roads.
Outcome:
The data was collected and analyzed. A recommendation for the
requested roads was formed and submitted to the PDCM Advisory
Board.

10. In Closing
Overall the time I spent in PDCM was very educational. I was exposed to asphalt
pavement design, asphalt pavement management, estimating, and to electronics
and concrete maturity meters during the interdisciplinary work with the Integrated
Microsystems Enterprise.
I am willing to share more information on the program at your request. If you
have work that the Enterprise may be able to conduct of just want to learn more,
their contact information can be found at www.pavementscholars.mtu.edu or I can
refer you to a contact in the organization.