He has also served as a scientific committee member for five international conferences so far. He has presentations and moderated sessions at international conferences.
GRAND FORKS, ND, July 18, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Daba Gedafa has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Since August 2011, Dr. Gedafa has been an assistant professor of civil engineering in the University of North Dakota. There, he spends about a third of his time teaching and a majority of his time conducting research. His primary areas of interest are pavement and materials engineering. Much of Dr. Gedafa's research has been published in professional journals, including the American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, the International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Road Materials and Pavement Design, and ASTM International's Journal of Testing and Evaluation. Dr. Gedafa was also elected to serve as a faculty representative on the University Senate's executive leadership committee. In recognition of his achievements in academia, Dr. Gedafa received the Dean's Outstanding Faculty Award in 2014, and was named faculty star, as voted by presidential scholarship recipients. He was also selected to be featured in the 66th through 70th editions of Who's Who in America.
Dr. Gedafa, who hails from Gindeberet, Ethiopia, earned a Ph.D. in transportation and materials engineering from Kansas State University in 2008. He previously received a Master of Technology in transportation systems engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Addis Ababa University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer as well. Prior to joining the University of North Dakota, Dr. Gedafa worked as an assistant professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut, a postgraduate and graduate research assistant at Kansas State University, and a lecturer at Arba Minch University in Ethiopia.
Dr. Gedafa remains current in his field through affiliations with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Geo-Institute of ASCE, the International Society of Asphalt Pavements, the International Society of Concrete Pavements, the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologies, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He is also a member of the TRB committees on flexible pavement design and full-scale accelerated pavement testing, and he serves as a reviewer for several professional journals. He has also served as a scientific committee member for five international conferences so far. He has presentations and moderated sessions at international conferences.
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