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NATIONAL HIGHWAY INSTITUTE
New Courses Offered
Highway Materials Engineering (#13123) presents applied knowledge in highway engineering
materials and quality control. This six-week course will be offered January 29-March 16, 2001,
at the University of Nevada in Reno for a fee of $4000. The class covers materials control and
acceptance/quality assurance; soil and foundations; steels, welding, and coatings; aggregates and
unbound bases; asphalt materials and paving mixtures; and portland cement concrete.
The course is targeted toward new, or future, state district materials engineers.
For more information or to request an application, contact Michael Rafalowski
at (202) 366-1571 or michael.rafalowski@fhwa.dot.gov.
Applications are due no later than November 10, 2000.
Superpave Fundamentals (#13153) explains the fundamental concepts of Superpave
technology and addresses the requirements, benefits, and impacts of the Superpave system. The
content focuses on implementation strategies for transportation agencies and describes how to
incorporate this evolving technology into paving programs. The course is intended for engineers
and technicians who are responsible for road repair and maintenance.
Pavement Preservation: The Preventive Maintenance Concept (#13154) introduces the
concept of preventive maintenance of pavement, including a description of currently available
tools and technology that make the implementation of a preventive maintenance program for
pavement feasible. Targeting an audience of upper management and policy makers in highway
agencies, the course focuses on the information needed to develop or improve a preventive
maintenance program. This is the first in a series of four courses on the general subject of
pavement preservation.
Principles of Writing Highway Construction Specifications (#13401) addresses the
engineering aspects, legal aspects, and linguistics of writing specifications. Although not a
course in technical writing, it teaches students how to draft new specifications or to rewrite
existing ones into clear, readable, and definitive statements of contract requirements.
Personnel working in contract administration, design, materials selection and quality control,
and management of highway construction, including contribution of information in contract
provisions, could benefit from this course.
Visit the NHI Web site to find the nearest course locations, or call course
coordinator Lynn Cadarr at (703) 235-0528.
Articles & Departments
The Genie in the Bottle
LANI & the Leimert Park Project
Enhancing Pavement Smoothness
Surviving the Turbulance
Strategic Plan for Transportation & Air Quality Research
Atlanta & "Conforms" to Clean Air Requirements
Measuring Economic Impacts of Federal-Aid Highway Projects
Transportation in the 21st Century
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