Time/Date
9 AM to 11 AM US CST (2 PM WET), Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Venue
GotoWebinar
Moderator
- Dr. George K. Chang, PE, President of ISIC; Transtec Group, USA
Speakers
- Rebecca Embacher, Advanced Materials and Technology Engineer, MNDOT, USA
- Curt Dunn, NDDOT, USA
- Brent Carron, Valley Paving, USA
Panelist
- All speakers
- Monica Jurado, FHWA, USA
- Jim Hutchins, Fleetwatcher by AlignOps, USA
- TBA, CommandAlkon, USA
Description
Material delivery management system (MDMS) is a standardization effort to manage all data associated with the delivery of material to a paving contract, including Source (E-Ticket), Loading and delivery event, Testing and contract administration, Agency field verification,
Hauler. This webinar will provide the background of the AASHTO MDMS standard and Veta—MDMS implementation. Speakers from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and contractors will also share their perspectives and demonstrate case studies on how MDMS helps them leverage the values of all intelligent construction technologies to diagnose paving issues and make timely corrective actions to improve pavement qualities. We will also have a panel discussion that includes all speakers, FHWA, and vendors’ representatives.
Registration
Registration is free . We will provide certificates of 0.2 PDH to participants upon request.
Agenda
Speakers’ Bio
Rebecca Embacher, Advanced Materials and Technology Engineer, MNDOT, USA
Ms. Embacher earned her M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a research engineer at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Transportation, a pavement engineer at American Engineering and Testing, Inc., and an Assistant Grading and Base Engineer at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. She is currently the Advanced Materials and Technology Engineer at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Her areas of experience are related to the physical and mechanical properties of concrete, pavement design and preservation, seasonal load limits, research and development, earthwork/embankment, and pavement construction, and during the past 15 years – the implementation of geospatial technologies for evaluating paving and grading and base material properties before and during construction. This includes technologies such as machine guidance for excavation, grading, milling, and paving; intelligent compaction on reclamation and bituminous applications; paver-mounted thermal profiling; e-construction / e-ticketing; digital test rolling; determination of Veta features; and more.
Curt graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
Curt began his career as a Transportation Engineer with the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) in the Materials and Research Division.
Curt was employed at Materials and Research from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 to the present, he has worked in the Grand Forks District as a highway materials engineer.
Curt is a Registered Professional Engineer.
Brent Carron, President, Valley Paving, USA
Brent Carron is the President of Valley Paving, Inc., located in Shakopee, MN. He has been in the asphalt industry for 28 years and has been working with thermal and IC technologies since 2012. He is also an industry partner with MnDOT to develop the rollout of the MDMS platform for contractors.
Panelist’ Bio
Monica Jurado, Pavement and Material Engineer, FHWA, USA
Monica Jurado has over 15 years of experience with the Federal Highway Administration as the lead for the Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) for Pavement’s Initiative, working closely with NDE technologies such as the MIRA, GPR MiniXT, and the Portable Seismic Property Analyzer (PSPA) through the Mobile Concrete Technology Center Equipment Loan Program (MCTC). Monica is currently leading the deployment of the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for density measurements with the Density Profiling System (DPS) with the Mobile Asphalt Technology Center (MATC) Equipment Loan Program. Ms. Jurado received her bachelor’s and master’s in civil engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Jim Hutchins, CTO, Fleetwatcher by AlignOps, USA
Jim Hutchins serves as Chief Information Security Officer at AlignOps, bringing over three decades of experience in SaaS technology and a strong focus on information security. With a lifelong passion for innovation in software solutions. Jim joined FleetWatcher, now an AlignOps company, in 2017 as CTO, overseeing technology strategy and security initiatives as the company more than quadrupled in size. Jim earned a BS in Computer Science from IUPUI, where he has served on the Science Alumni Board of Directors since 1999. Recognized for his contributions to the field, he was named J. Everett Light Career Center Alumni of the Year (2007), CTO of the Year by the Indianapolis Business Journal and TechPoint (2015), and received the Maynard K. Hine Award from IUPUI (2018).
Moderator’s Bio
Dr. George K. Chang, PE, President of ISIC; Director of Research, Transtec Group, USA
Dr. Chang is a world expert on pavement smoothness and intelligent compaction/construction technologies for 3 decades. He founded the International Society for Intelligent Construction – ISIC (www.IS-IC.org). His research, teaching, specification development, and software tools have helped make significant technological advancements in the above fields. The websites he develops and maintains, Profile Viewing and Analysis – ProVAL and Intelligent Construction Technologies – Veta, have become a one-stop-shop for pavement smoothness and intelligent compaction (IC)/construction technologies (ICT). Since 2007, he has led the IC/ICT implementation efforts worldwide, including in the US, Europe, China, and Australia, etc.