Susan Tighe, PEng

Professor Susan Tighe currently holds an Endowed Chair in Sustainable Pavement Engineering, is a founding member of the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT) at the University of Waterloo. Prior to assuming the Director role which she has held since September 2010, she served as the CPATT Associate Director of Research and Technology from 2005 to 2010. She is a past Canada Research Chair in Pavement and Infrastructure Management. She is a member of the inaugural class of the New College of Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada and was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 for her leadership and vision with respect to the Canadian Transportation Community. She has also received the prestigious Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), Research & Development Medal, the Transportation of Canada Academic Merit Award, Inaugural Bleeds Black Award from the Ontario Hot Mix Producers Association and Inaugural Region of Waterloo Top 40 Under 40.

She has successfully completed over 40 graduate students since starting at the University of Waterloo in 2000, many of whom are now in academic, public and private sector leadership positions. She is an author of over 400 technical publications in pavements and infrastructure, including being the principal investigator on the 2013 Transportation Association of Canada Pavement Asset Design and Management Guide and is involved in a number of national and international research projects. She has been involved with projects in Africa, India, Chile, India, China, Australia, New Zealand and throughout North America. Dr. Tighe worked for the Ministry of Transportation Ontario prior to pursuing a career in academia. During sabbaticals she has spent time in Australia working for a contractor, and has also received academic Fellowships including the Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering at the University of Nottingham in England and the Queensland Pavement Center located at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.

• pavement design and management, asphalt pavements, material characterization, life cycle cost analysis, airport engineering, sustainability, green roads and climate change, concrete pavements, pavement performance modelling, infrastructure Management, maintenance, advanced manufacturing, smart infrastructure

Registered Professional Engineer, Province of Ontario since June 1995, Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Chair, International Steering Committee: 7th & 8th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets, Past Chair, Soils and Materials Standing Committee, Transportation Association of Canada, Member, Expert Task Group: Data Analysis: United States Long Term Pavement Performance Program, Chair, Transportation Research Board Sub-Committee A2B01(2) Airport Pavement Management, Member, Canadian Airfield Technical Group, Member, Pavements Standing Committee, Transportation Association of Canada, Member, Transportation Research Board Committee (TRB) A2B01Pavement Management, Member, TRB A2F02 Flexible Pavement Construction and Rehabilitation, Member ,Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Member, Canadian Technical Asphalt Association, Treasurer, Queen’s University Science '93 Executive, Board of Directors, St. Monica House, a shelter for homeless mothers, Member, International Society of Asphalt Pavements, University of Waterloo Senate/ University of Waterloo Senate Finance Committee

SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR: Pioneer Road Services, Australia November 2005 – April 2006

SABBATICAL LEAVE: University of Waterloo

May 1993-Sep 1996 Project Engineer, Pavements and Foundations Section, (Jun 1996-Sep 1996)

Geotechnical Materials Engineer, Geotechnical Section, (Jun 1995-May 1996)

Concrete Engineer, Concrete Section, Engineering Material Office, (Dec 1994-Jun 1995), Contract Administrator, Highway 407 Advanced Structures, Central Region Construction, (Apr 1994-Nov 1994), Bituminous Engineer, Bituminous Section, Engineering Materials Office, (Dec 1993-Mar 1994), Construction Inspector, Central Region Construction, (May 1993-Nov 1993), Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO).

• 2000, Doctorate Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 1997, Master's Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 1993, Bachelor's Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Canada

• 2011 Norman W. McLeod Chair in Sustainable Pavement Engineering

• 2005 Natural Science and Engineering Research Council

• 2003

• 2004 Young Engineer Medal

• 2006 Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Special Performance Award, awarded for outstanding performance

• 2007 Top 40 Under 40

• 2007 Best Paper Award – Susan Tighe, Ken Huen and Ralph Haas, Transportation Research Board

• 2008 Canada's 80 Women to Watch, Chatelaine magazine

• 2009 TAC Presidents Medal for Best Paper

• 2010 En-hui Yang Research Innovation Award

• 2010 U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship

• 2005 Pavement and Infrastructure Management

• 2009 Sustainable Pavement and Infrastructure Management

• Rizvi, Rabiah and Tighe, Susan and Henderson, Vimy and Norris, Jodi, Evaluating the use of recycled concrete aggregate in pervious concrete pavement, Transportation research record: journal of the transportation research board, 132, 2010

• Du Tertre, Antonin and Cascante, Giovanni and Tighe, S, Combining PFWD and surface wave measurements for evaluation of longitudinal joints in asphalt pavements, The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 89th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, January, 3319, 2010

• Ahammed, M Alauddin and Tighe, Susan L and Klement, Tom, Quiet and durable pavements: Findings from an Ontario study, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 1035, 2010

• Ahammed, M Alauddin and Tighe, Susan L, Effect of short-term and long-term weather on pavement surface friction, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, 295, 2010