Learn about advances in transportation infrastructure at the seventh annual Transportation Infrastructure Conference, hosted by Missouri S&T and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) this April.

The conference will be held Monday, April 22, at the Havener Center on the Missouri S&T campus. This year’s theme is sustainable and resilient transportation infrastructure.

The registration fee is $75, and includes a professional development hour (PDH) certificate, lunch and coffee breaks. Conference participants will receive six PDHs. Student registration is available at no cost. The event will also feature a student poster competition, which will be judged by MoDOT officials. Registration is available at cies.mst.edu/conference.

The conference should be of interest to public transportation agencies, professional and consulting engineers, testing labs, academicians, and undergraduate and graduate students.

Keynote speakers include Dr. William Buttlar, Glen Barton Chair of flexible pavement technology at the University of Missouri-Columbia; Dr. Kyle Riding, associate professor at the University of Florida; and Dr. Kamal Khayat, Vernon and Maralee Jones Chair of civil engineering at Missouri S&T. Dr. Onur Kalan, research associate at the C2SMART Connected Cities with Smart Transportation University Transportation Center (UTC) at New York University, will also present as an invited speaker.

Conference chairs are Dr. Kamal H. Khayat, director of the Missouri S&T Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies, and Jennifer Harper, research administrator for MoDOT.

The conference is sponsored by Missouri S&T, S&T’s Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES) and MoDOT.