Mark Philip McDonald

2112 Fairfax Avenue Apt. 210

Nashville, TN 37212

Email: mark.p.mcdonald@vanderbilt.edu                                                                              

Phone: (256) 738-5789

EDUCATION

BCE (2003), Auburn University, GPA 3.92, Summa Cum Laude

MSCE (2004), University of California, Berkeley, GPA 3.636

PUBLICATIONS

M. McDonald, R. Turochy, and L.Crowley, Investigation Of Seasonal Variation In Pavement Friction Using the Datapave 3.0 Database. Submitted to the Fourth International Long Term Pavement Performance Data Analysis Contest, Federal Highway Administration , 2003

M. McDonald and S. Mahadevan, Single-Loop Bases Algorithms for Reliability Based Design Optimization of Structural Systems. ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2006 (in press)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Engineering Assistant, Marshall County (AL) Engineer. Summer 2000, 2001, 2002. Assisted County Engineer in planning, design, and inspection of county infrastructure and in management of county road and bridge construction projects.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Auburn University. Spring and Summer Semesters, 2003. Assisted in development of PerRoad software for design and analysis of extended life hot mix asphalt pavements.

Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Berkeley. Summer 2004. Performed model validation study of permanent deformation in asphalt concrete for 2002 AASHTO design guide using WesTrack field data.

Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley. 2004-2005 academic year. Developed models for Portland cement concrete pavement cracking for CalTrans Pavement Management System.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Auburn University Honors Scholar (2003)

First Place, Fourth International Long Term Pavement Performance Data Analysis Contest (2003)

University of California, Berkeley Departmental Block Fellow

Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow

National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow