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About Kamal Khayat

Professor Khayat joined Missouri S&T in 2011 as the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies. Between 8/2011 and 6/2014, he directed the Center for Transportation Infrastructure and Safety, a National University Transportation Center (UTC). The $37M grant funded 174 research, equipment, and education projects. He also directed the Tier-1 UTC, Research on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation between 9/2013 and 12/2019. He was the Champion for the Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Signature Area and the UM System’s new Tier-2 Center for Novel Carbon-Efficient Binders for Sustainable Infrastructure.

Dr. Khayat received undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1990 and 2011, Dr. Khayat was professor of Civil Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, where he last served as Director of the Integrated Research Laboratory on Materials Valorization and Innovative and Durable Structures, a 40,000-ft2 state-of-the-art facility made possible by a grant of C$16M from the Canadian Foundation of Innovation. At Missouri S&T, he led efforts to establish the Clayco Advanced Construction and Materials Laboratory – a 14,500-ft2 state-of-the-art research facility inaugurated in 2020. 

Professor Khayat is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading concrete scientists. His pioneering work in the rheology of cement-based materials contributed to the pioneering of self-consolidating concrete (SCC). SCC has become the new normal in high-rise buildings, precast applications, and structural repair, given its potential to greatly improve construction efficiency and safety, reduce costs, and extend service life. He has chaired/co-chaired several international conferences, including the 2020 Gordon Research Conference (Ventura Beach, CA), SCC2016 (Washington, DC), SCC2010 (Montreal), and other conferences in China, France, Poland, and the UAE. His outstanding and creative contributions to innovation, leadership, and technology transfer have been recognized by several international organizations, including the 2020 University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence in STEM/Natural Sciences, the 2020 Robert E. Philleo Award, the 2018 Wason Medal, the 2017 J.-C. Roumain Award, and the 2015 Arthur Anderson Medal from the American Concrete Institute. In September 2019, he was honored for his lifetime achievements in the field of SCC at an international conference in Germany held in his honor.

Professor Khayat was awarded over 143 research projects with approximate funding of $32M as PI and $14M as co-PI. He has advised 43 Ph.D. students, 46 MSc students, and 23 post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars. He has co-authored over 500 publications, 11 contributions to books and book chapters, and served as editor/co-editor of 19 books and conference proceedings.    

Positions

February 2023 - Present Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
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August 2011 - Present Research Investigator, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES)
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August 2011 - Present Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
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September 2021 - January 2023 Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
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August 2011 - October 2021 Director, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES)
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September 2013 - December 2019 Director, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ REsearch on Concrete Applications for Sustainable Transportation (RE-CAST)
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August 2011 - June 2014 Director, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Center for Transportation Infrastructure and Safety
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Curriculum Vitae

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Professional Service and Affiliations

2021 - Present Board of Direction, American Concrete Institute
2018 - Present Member Technical Activities Committee, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, ACI 236 Materials Science of Concrete, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, ACI 238 Workability of Concrete, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, ACI 234, Silica Fume, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, ACI 237 Self-Consolidating Concrete, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, ACI 552 Cementitious Grouting, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, ACI 564 3-D Printing with Cementitious Materials, American Concrete Institute
Present Member, RILEM TC-FPC Form Pressure of SCC, RILEM
Present Member, RILEM TC-MRP Measuring Rheological Properties of Cement-based Materials, RILEM
Present RILEM TC-DCS : Data-driven concrete science, RILEM
Present Member, RILEM TC-305-PCC : Pumping of concrete, RILEM
2014 - 2018 Member, RILEM Development Advisory Committee, DAC – Convener for North America, RILEM
2014 - 2017 Member, SA02 Wason Medal for Materials Research, American Concrete Institute
2009 - 2015 Chairman, ACI Committees 237 Self-Consolidating Concrete, American Concrete Institute
2008 - 2013 Chairman, RILEM TC 228 Mechanical Properties of SCC, RILEM
2008 - 2011 Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
2005 - 2009 Secretary, TC205 Durability of SCC, RILEM
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Honors and Awards

  • 2020 Robert E. Philleo Award, Concrete Research Council of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation
  • 2016 ACI Foundation Jean-Claude Roumain Innovation in Concrete Award, 2016
  • 2016 Elsevier list of 150 most cited people in civil engineering in the world
  • 2015 Fellow RILEM (International Union Reunion of laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures)
  • 2015 ACI Arthur R. Anderson Medal
  • 2014 The G.H. Tattersall Award for Sustaining and Outstanding Contributions in the Area of Sustainability and Durability of Concrete, Reykjavik, Iceland
  • 2012 ACI Quebec and Eastern Ontario Award of Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Concrete Science and Technology

Courses

  • Construction Estimating and Scheduling
  • Engineering Materials
  • Concrete Durability and Repair
  • Concrete Technology
  • Rheology and Self-consolidating Concrete
  • Advanced Concrete Science and Technology

Education

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1989 Ph. D. in Civil Engineering, Concrete Technology, University of California, Berkeley
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1985 M.S. in Structural Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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1984 Master of Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management, University of California, Berkeley
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1982 B.S. in Civil Engineering (concentration: Structural Engineering), University of California, Berkeley
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