Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Highway Design Council

Mission

The mission of the Highway Design Council is to

  • Provide students the best practical foundation in highway design to support a highway professional career
  • Create stronger connections between the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering with practicing highway design professionals and firms
  • Upgrade Iowa State's human and physical resources

Purpose

The purpose of the council is to

  • Help the faculty to become up to date on current practice
  • Help the department acquire state-of-the-art equipment and software for a new highway design lab

Meetings

Previous meetings

Proposed lab design

Members


Karen Allen
Edwards & Kelcey, Inc.
7300 Metro Blvd, Suite 400
Minneapolis, MN  55439-3074
kallen@ekmail.com

John Bender
Ament Inc.
jbender@ament.com

David Bovee
Stanley Consultants, Inc.
100 Court Avenue, Suite 300
Des Moines, IA  50309
boveedavid@stanleygroup.com


Shawn Foutch, P.E.
Vice President
Iowa Operations Center Manager
Kirkham Michael Consulting Engineers
Des Moines, Iowa


Michael N. Gorman
Senior Vice President
HWS Consulting Group Inc.
mgorman@hws.com


Sirpa Hall
CH2M Hill
Sirpa.Hall@ch2m.com


Ray P. Herweg
Vice President
TranSystems Corporation
rpherweg@transystems.com


Bob Lentz
Earth Tech
bob.lentz@earthtech.com


Dave Meier
HDR
dave.meier@hdrinc.com


Dave Moeller
Snyder & Associates
dnmoeller@snyder-associates.com

Kent Nicholson
Assistant Road Design Engineer
Iowa Department of Transportation
Ames, Iowa

Rick White
Howard R. Green, Inc.

Michael A. Zelinskas, P.E.
Vice President
WHKS & Co.
1485 Oeth Court
Dubuque, IA  52003-7879