Professor, CEO SHATEC Engineering Consultants
Dr. Shakir Shatnawi is the president of Shatec Engineering Consultants, LLC, a consulting firm which provides highway and pavement engineering consulting services. Dr. Shatnawi holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) (1990), a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management) (1985), and a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering (1982). His professional experience consists for 20 years working with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and 14 years working as a private consultant in addition to other previous experience with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and California State University, Sacramento. While working for Caltrans for 20 years (1991 to 2010), Dr. Shatnawi was involved at various engineering capacities starting as a Transportation Engineer, then promoting to a Senior Transportation Engineer, then promoting to a Supervising Transportation Engineer and finally to a Career Executive Assignment (CEA3). He served as the Caltrans State Pavement Engineer Caltrans overseeing Caltrans pavement standards and was a member of the Caltrans Pavement Standards Team which was the body responsible for the statewide pavement standards and implementation covering a wide range of pavement issues including asphalt rubber.
Dr. Shatnawi served on a number of industry technical committees dealing with pavement specifications and construction standards and served on various national expert committees such as the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) and Pavement Preservation Expert Task Group. Dr. Shatnawi has been member of the International Asphalt Rubber Conference technical committee since its inception, and has chaired a number of conferences and workshops. He developed and conducted numerous pavement and QC/QA training classes for many members of industry and public agencies. He taught highway and transportation engineering at California State University, Sacramento from 1993 to 1999 and was an author of numerous papers related to asphalt rubber.