Adrián Ricardo Archilla

Dissertation: Effects of Long, Steep, Downgrades on Two-Lane Highway Traffic and Operations

Advisor: Samer Madanat

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2000

MS Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, 1993

BS Civil Engineering, National University of San Juan, Argentina, 1989

University of Hawai'i at Manoa - Present 

• Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Hawaii (2019 -present)
• Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Hawaii (2008-2019)
• Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Hawaii (2002-2008).
• Professor, National University of San Juan, Argentina (1993-1994, 1996, 2000-2001).
• Research Engineer at the Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Center, FHWA, McLean, VA. (-Participant in the Loaned Staff Program of the Pan American Institute of Highways)- (1995).
• Assistant Professor, National University of San Juan, Argentina (1989-1990)

Awards and Honors 

• Recipient of the 2000 Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for best Ph.D. Dissertation. Award given annually by the Council of University Transportation Centers for best Master and Ph.D. dissertations in the U.S. in Transportation Science and Technology.
• Keynote speaker at the “XVI Congreso Argentino de Vialidad y Tránsito” organized by the Asociación Argentina de Carreteras, held on October 22-26, 2012 in Córdoba, Argentina. “Challenges to the implementation of the MEPDG (Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide) and Vision for Its Use”.
• Recipient of the 3rd Prize for the paper “Evaluación del efecto de las caracterí­sticas de las mezclas asfálticas en caliente en su resistencia a la deformación permanente mediante el SPT y la guí­a de diseí±o MEPDG” in the XV Congreso Argentino de Vialidad y Tránsito, Mar del Plata, Argentina, Sept. 14-18, 2009.
• Recipient of a special mention for the paper “Estimación de Modelos de Ahuellamiento Combinando Datos Experimentales de Distintas Fuentes”, in the XIII Congreso Argentino de Vialidad y Tránsito, Buenos Aires, Oct. 1-5, 2001.
• “Gold Medal” and “Honor Diploma” of the National University of San Juan, College of Engineering, San Juan, Argentina, 1989.