Ignatius Fomunung,Professor ofUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

Visiting Professor Changsha University of Science and Technology Fall 2015 - …

Associate Professor University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN Fall 2005 - …

Assistant Professor ClarkAtlantaUniversity-(CAU) Atlanta, GA 8/2000 – 5/ 2005

Post Doctoral Research Scientist CTSPS-CAU Atlanta, GA Summer 2000

Adjunct Professor of Physics Spelman College Atlanta, GA Spring 2000

Graduate Teaching Assistant Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Fall 1999

Graduate Research Assistant Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 1995-1999

HONORS AND AWARDS

2015 ASCE Faculty Advisor of the Year Award

2015 Sustainable Transportation Award: Shaping a Future of Transportation Without Petroleum by the TN Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)

Best Faculty Teaching Award, Dept. of Civil, Chemical & General Engineering, 2014-15 AY

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Research

Geospatial Applications in Transportation Systems Analysis and Design

Transportation-air quality planning and analysis

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Human Factors and Safety in Transportation.

Smart Materials/Infrastructure Health Monitoring

Teaching

· Core Engineering Courses like Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, Environmental Engineering Systems, and Transportation Engineering.

· Emissions Modeling: Air Pollution Modeling, Environmental Impact Assessment

· Transportation Planning: Design of Transportation Facilities, GIS In Transportation, Applied Engineering Statistics, Transportation and Energy

· Traffic Engineering: Traffic Flow Theory, Traffic Engineering, Highway Capacity Methods, Coordinated Systems in Traffic Control.

Thesis Advisor/Project Supervision/Committee Member

· Weiran Yang, Implementation of XFEM and Concrete Damage Plasticity for Recycled Aggregate Concrete Crack modeling, December 2015, MS Civ Eng – committee member

· Asritha Batchu, Thermal Analysis of Pre-stressed Double Tee Canopy Beam, December 2015,MS Civ Eng – committee member

· Drew Loiseaux, A Quantified Approach to the Functional Longevity of Geosynthetic Rolled Erosion Control Products (GRECPs), September 2015, MS Civ Eng –committee member

· Daniel Malyuta, Analysis of Factors Affecting Pavement Markings and Pavement Marking Retroreflectivity in Tennessee Highways, May 2015,MS Civ Eng –committee member

· Amour Saliha,Pavement Management Analysis of Arterial Roads in the City of Chattanooga using Miropaver, May 2015, MS Civ Eng – committee member

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed and Peer-Reviewed Journals

§ Wu,W., Batchu, A., Haraway, T.K., Fomunung, I., Owino, J., and Onyango, M.“Thermal Analysis of Pre-stressed Double Tee Canopy Beam”,Engineering Structures,under review

§ Wu,W., Yang, W., Fomunung, I. , Owino, J., and Onyango, M.“Implementation of XFEM and Concrete damage plasticity for recycled aggregate concrete crack modeling”,Finite Elements in Analysis and Design,under review

§ Benjamin Byard, Ammar El Hassan Joseph Owino, Ignatius Fomunung, Mbakisya Onyango, Alex Brent RollinsMixture Parameters, Fresh and Hardened Properties of Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC)-A Survey of Current Practice in the U.S. Submitted toTransportation Research Board (TRB)2015

Reports

· Ignatius Fomunung, J. Ronald Bailey, Marc-Olivier Labrie. “Demonstration of an Energy Plus Building” Clean Tennessee Energy Program, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), January, 2015

· Ignatius Fomunung, Mark Hairr, Kirpal Doad Woodlyn Madden,. “Deployment of Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) for Bus Stops and Design of a Dual Power Supply System”. Prepared for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and CARTA, December 2008

· Peer – Reviewed Conference Proceedings

· Ignatius Fomunung, Joseph Owino, Mbaki Onyango, Safe Routes to School as a Transportation Control Measure: Impacts on the Emission Inventory,International Symposium on Systematic Approaches to Environmental Sustainability in Transportation (ISSAEST), Fairbanks, AK, US August 2-5, 2015

· Wu,W., Fomunung, I. , Owino, J., Onyango, M., and Al-Ostaz, A. "Finite Element Modeling for Damage of Recycled Aggregate Concrete", ICCEASI 2015, Hong Kong, July 1-3

· Wade Gasior, Li Yang, Ignatius Fomunung, Mark Hairr, Ronald Bailey, “So You Want to Drive an Electric Vehicle”, EVS-25 Shenzhen, China November 2010

· Cecelia Wigal, Ignatius Fomunung, Edwin Foster, Ronald Goulet: “The Impact on Students of Freshman Design Projects Supporting Advanced Courses”, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI June 24-27, 2007,.

· Ignatius Fomunung, Simon Washington, Randall Guensler, and William Bachman, “Performance Evaluation of “MEASURE” Emissions Factors: A Comparison with MOBILE5a”, Presented at the 79th Annual Conference of the Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, WashingtonDC, January 2000.

INVITED SEMINARS/LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

Changes and Opportunities in Chinese Higher Education in the Modern Era: Notes from My Luggage”, Presented atthe Chattanooga Engineers Club, Chattanooga, TN February 4, 2008

Advances in Structural Health Monitoring: Smart Materials in Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring,College of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, May 11, 2007

The Advanced Technology for Transportation Research Program (ATTRP),School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, May 11, 2007.

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Title:Improving Rigid Pavement Smoothness using Polylevel

Source:Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT)

Project Period:10/01/2015 – 03/31/2018

Award Amount:$154,457

Role:Co-PI

Title:Traffic Data Input for Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG)

Source:TDOT and DOT-FHWA- Federal Highway Administration

Project Period:10/01/2015 – 03/31/2018

Award Amount:$172,054

Role:Co-PI

Title:Development of Class P-SCC (Self Consolidating Concrete) and Class A-

Source:TDOT

Project Period:06/01/2013 – 05/31/2015

Award Amount:$150,000

Role:Co-PI

Title:Implementation of Green Power Provider Agreement at the AVTF-

Source:Environmental Task Force (ETF), UTC

Project Period:March 2015 – April 2015

Award Amount:$3,898.00

Role:PI

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) Hands-On Training Course, US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Atlanta, GA September 22-23, 2015

American Society of Civil Engineers Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Workshop, August 17-19, 2007.

American Concrete Pavement Association Professor’s Seminar: Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements, at Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Il., May 31 to June 2, 2006

SERVICE

Professional Affiliations/Activities

ICTA – International Conference on Transportation in Africa Review Board member

African Transportation Professional Networking Group Member since 2014

NSF Review Panelist October 2014, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

IAJC – International Review Board Member. Since March 2014

Technical Referee (Paper Reviewer) – Journals

International Journal of Modern Engineering (IJME)

International Association of Journals and Conferences (IAJC)

Journal of Transportation and Statistics (JTS)

Transportation Research Board ,Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20)

Transportation Research Board, Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer Software in Transportation Research Committee (ABJ80)

University Committee Assignment

ABET Coordinator- Civil Engineering

Parking Task Force Committee, 2015

Bylaws Adhoc Committee, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Graduate and Research Coordinator, Department of Civil Engineering. 2008 – August 2015.