5/13/99

Jim Killian, 844-4218 AUBURN

ENGINEER CHAIR OF NATIONAL PANEL ON ROAD TESTING MATERIAL

AUBURN -- Prithvi Kandhal, associate director of the Auburn Based National Center for Asphalt Technology, has been elected chairman of a national panel on road testing material.

As chairman of the American Society for Testing Materials committee on road and paving materials, Kandhal will head a 512-member group concerned with developing and maintaining standards for flexible pavements, as well as oversight of products, systems and services to construct and maintain highways.

Kandhal, who received a master's degree in soils engineering from Iowa State University, has focused his career on designing, constructing and maintaining asphalt pavements.

An author of more than 100 research publications, he has done research on asphalt binders, aggregates and asphalt mixtures, and co-wrote the first textbook published on asphalt technology.

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