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Welcome Matteo to ARTEL

Matteo Rosca is currently pursuing his Master鈥檚 degree at the Universit脿 “La Sapienza” di Roma and is joining 杏吧原创 University as part of his research activities. During this period, he will be working as a Research Assistant under the co-supervision of Dr. Kamal Hossain.鈥� View More

Why are Potholes so Bad in Saskatchewan, CBC Radio

Earth’s climate has changed. Therefore, in recent years, countries across the world experience so many days of very high temperatures and other abnormalities. High temperatures deteriorate asphalt road performance and..鈥� View More

Pothole Problems in Ottawa, CBC Report

搁别肠别苍迟濒测听Dr. Kamal Hossain聽was interviewed by CBC on Ottawa pothole issues and how these can be mitigated in the future. Here are the news article and news report links with commentary from Dr. Hossain..鈥� View More

Climate Change Impacts on Highways, Vancouver Sun

Heavy rains and floods have damaged many highways in British Columbia, Canada. Here is a news article where聽Dr. Kamal Hossain听补苍诲听Dr. Surya Teja Swarna from ARTEL were interviewed. They discussed how to mitigate some road and highway problems from climate change impacts. You can read the full story in The Vancouver Sun.鈥� View More

CTAA Graduate Scholarship

Congratulation to聽Alyssa Bernier聽for winning this year鈥檚 Canadian Technical Asphalt Association (CTAA) Graduate Scholarship award. Canadian Technical Asphalt Association鈥檚 Scholarship review committee selected her as the winner of this competitive award for 2021.鈥� View More

Earl Kee Award 2021

It was amazing to see our research group member聽Alyssa Bernier receives Earl Kee Award at the 67th Annual Conference of CTAA at Kelowna British Columbia!!! It was for her technical paper鈥� View More

Congrats to Towhidul

Congrats to聽Towhidul Islam on completing his master鈥檚 thesis and presenting his research seminars recently! Job well done! ARTEL wishes you all the best in your future endeavors鈥� View More

Best Poster Award

A total of seven ARTEL members participated in the GRINCH Pavement Research meeting held at ETS, Montreal on 17 June 2022. GRINCH is an Annual Meeting of Pavement Researchers from Canadian Universities organized by ETS or Laval University for many years鈥� View More

Congrats to Surya

Surya Teja Swarna聽presented his PhD thesis proposal on 鈥淚nfluence of climate change on pavement design and materials in Canada 鈥� on August 30, 2021鈥� View More

TAUMUN Award

Our very own聽Shajib Guha聽has been awarded the 鈥淭AUMUN Award for Outstanding Contribution in Teaching鈥� for his significant contribution to Memorial University from Spring 2020 to Winter 2021鈥� View More

Congrats to Shajib

Congrats to Shajib Guha on completing his master鈥檚 thesis and presenting his research seminars recently! Job well done! ARTEL wishes you all the best in your future…聽View More

Congrats to Shahbaz

Congrats to Shahbaz Khan on completing his master鈥檚 thesis and presenting his research seminars recently! Job well done! ARTEL wishes you all the best in your future鈥� View More

Congrats to Masud

Congrats to聽Masud Rana for completing his Master of Engineering (Thesis) degree this Fall, despite various challenges throughout the year of 2020! In his master鈥檚,聽Masud聽worked on understanding the effects of autonomous vehicles on pavement distress and road safety and how the pavement distresses can be optimized by developing autonomous vehicle movement algorithms鈥� View More

Research Excellence Award

Our very own聽聽obtained this year鈥檚鈥淩esearch Excellence Award鈥� from the graduate student union for his achievements for 2019-2020 academic period. He received this award from Memorial University鈥檚 Dean of Graduate Studies鈥� View More

Congrats to Rayhan and Rakibul

Congrats to Rayhan and Rakibul on completing their master鈥檚 theses and presenting their research seminars recently! Job well done! ARTEL wishes you all the best in your future endeavors鈥� View More

Fellowship Awards

Congrats to Rakibul, Rayhan and Surya!!!! All three received the鈥淔ellow of School of Graduate Studies鈥� award from Memorial University. This award is given to the students who have a proven record of academic excellence鈥� View More

NL Road Survey

Memorial University鈥檚 pavement research group (ARTEL) is conducting this anonymous survey to understand public opinion on roadway assets. Please participate in our study if you are or have been a resident of a small community with a population size of less than 5000鈥� View More

99th TRB-AM, Washington

We are delighted to present our research at the 99th Annual Meeting of TRB, that will be held during January 11-16, 2020 in Washington DC, USA. Thanks to the students and collaborators. In this TRB, we will present the following papers and contribute in the following technical sessions. All are welcome to the events!!!鈥� View More

64th CTAA-AM, Montreal

Dr. Hossain听补苍诲听Surya Swarna聽are at the 64th Annual Meeting of Canadian Technical Asphalt Association (CTAA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that took place from Nov. 24 to Nov. 27, 2019. In this meeting鈥� View More

N.L. Road Issues

On Nov. 20, 2019, Dr. Kamal Hossain gave an invited public lecture in the speaking of engineering lecture regarding the province鈥檚 road conditions, pavement maintenance and the challenges and opportunities for improving road and highway conditions. This lecture is鈥� View More

Asphalt Performance

Dr. Hossain聽gives a talk at the pavement engineering research symposium organized by the University of Waterloo on April 26, 2019. In this talk, he described鈥� View More

Telegram Interview

Dr. Hossain聽gives an interview with The Telegram on 14 March 2019 regarding NL road conditions including potholes, ruts and cracking problems. In this over a half-an-hour interview, various issues related to our roads and potential solutions…View More

Memories from an Exciting Day!!!

Few weeks ago we got the privilege to receive an invitation from our provincial minister of transportation Honourable Steve Crocker to present our ongoing works on pavement engineering research here at MUN, and to discuss how we can work together to improve our road conditions…View More

2019 Pavement Research Symposium at Waterloo

ARTEL is very pleased to participate at the pavement engineering research symposium and 2019 Grinch meeting during 25-27 April at the University of Waterloo. In this symposium聽and meeting, Dr. Hossain presented an update of pavement research activities of Memorial University. Thanks to the Waterloo…View More

Thanks to Chris and Omega!

ARTEL thanks聽 and for their excellent works for the last few months.聽 As co-op student, they have contributed in two exciting projects, entitled 鈥淐an we improve Road Safety in City of St. John鈥檚 Roads? 鈥渁nd 鈥淓ffect of Autonomous Vehicle and Connected Traffic System on the Pavement Design…View More

Lessons Learned Can Help

Dr. Hossain gives an interview with the Western Star on Hansen Highway cracking on 18 January 2019. In this over half-an-hour interview, various issues related to pavement durability, pavement mixture design and testing systems have been discussed. A recommendation to the Department of Transportation and….View More

TSB and Road Safety

Thanks to Dr. Shalaby for his聽persistence efforts to talk about road safety issues in Canada. I echo with you…View More

Congrats to Mutalab on PhD Comprehensive聽

Mutalab Ali, a PhD student working at ARTEL, passed his PhD comprehensive exam on 25 March 2019. Congrats Mutalab! You have done a great job! For the next few years, Mutalab will be working to better understand the different ruts in NL roads. We wish him all the best…View More

ARTEL at TRB 2019

We are delighted to present our research at the 98th Annual Meeting of TRB, that will be held during January 13-17, 2019 in Washington DC, USA. Thanks to the students and collaborators. In this TRB, we will present the following papers and contribute in the following technical sessions. All are welcome to the…View More

Participation in 2018 CTAA, TAC, CSCE, and TRB Conferences

It has been a great year for our new team! With the contributions from students and collaborators,聽 we have showcased our research efforts in several important conferences this year. Thanks to all who helped to make these happen! The following聽 papers have been presented in conferences in 2018!…View More

Surya in Ottawa Arctic Meeting

Surya Swarna, who is a doctoral researcher at ARTEL, has recently received a grant from Transport Canada of Government of Canada to participate in the Arctic scientific meeting held in Ottawa in December 2018. The arctic meeting is a forum for exchanging knowledge between climate researchers. In his Ph.D.,…View More

APSE 聽Newsletter Fall 2018

paves the way and defines the future of pavement engineering profession. Please the link below to learn about the activities of聽!!!…View More

The Gazette Features “Sustainable Pavement for Harsh Climate” Project!

Our new NSERC Discovery Grant project on 鈥渄evelopment of sustainable pavement for harsh Canadian climate鈥� is featured on the Gazette of Memorial University. Below is the link for the news article. Thanks to Jeff Green from the Gazette for reaching聽out, and covering this important topic…View More

CBC Interview聽

CBC interviews 聽Dr. Hossain regarding road conditions of Newfoundland on 12 June 2018. Over half an hour, a number of questions related to our road pavement was discussed. Of which, a part has been quoted in this and broadcasted on CBC radio on 18 June 2018…View More

Research Initiative for Sustainable Road Pavement for NL

Dr. Hossain presented an overview of MUN鈥檚 initiative for developing pavement research program on May 31 in transportation committee of the university. This committee consists of members from transportation and infrastructure departments from several cities and agencies including City of St. John鈥檚, City of Mt Perl, Township of Paradise, Metrobus agency and senior officials from the facility management department including its director….View More

Congrats to Thomas for NSERC CGS-M Award!

Thomas聽 Donnelly has recently received prestigious NSERC CGS-M award for his achievements in research and academic excellence. Under the supervision of Dr. Kamal Hossain who was then a final year doctoral researcher at the civil and environmental engineering department of the University of Waterloo, Thomas contributed in several research studies. Although it was his first undergrad co-op term, with his fast learning ability, Thomas contributed and co-authored three technical papers that studied effects of pavement types and pre-wetting materials on optimal WRM, and development of a mechanistic-empirical model, which were published in CJCE/ASCE journals….View More

Thanks to Co-op Research Team

Thanks to Michael, Shady and Tim for their great contributions in our several research projects.聽Mike worked on Understanding Role of Nano-materials聽 for Improving Asphalt Binder Performance, Shady studied and analyzed Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Data聽 to estimate pavement damage cost….View More

Research Initiative on 鈥淧othole Repair鈥� & 鈥淲inter Road Maintenance鈥� for St. John鈥檚

Dr. Hossain meets with a team from the Department of Public Works of City of St. John鈥檚 and delivers a presentation on 鈥淪ustainable Pavements and聽Winter Road Maintenance for Newfoundland鈥� on March 23, 2018…..View More

Memorial Pavement Research Group: 1st Group Meeting

On Thursday, March 8th, 2018, ARTEL had its first group meeting in the S.J. Carew building at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). This was attended by聽Dr. Kamal Hossain, and by his three Ph.D. students, one master鈥檚 student via Skype, and three co-op students…..View More

Recycling Waste Tire of Newfoundland

Dr. Andy Fisher and聽Dr. Kamal Hossain聽meet with Waste Tire Program team members of Multi-Materials Stewardship Board (MMSB) of Newfoundland and Labrador on聽March 7, 2018. A two-hour session was well spent to explore and brainstorm different local application options, and subsequent research projects or pilot projects for Waste Tires of Newfoundland…..View More

Infrastructure Canada: Smart Cities Challenge

Dr. Carlos Bazan, Dr. Noori Saady and聽Dr. Kamal Hossain聽from the Department of Civil Engineering meet the City of Mt. Pearl Infrastructure Management on March 5, 2018…..View More

97th TRB Annual Meeting

Dr. Hossain is at the 97th TRB Annual Meeting and the Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering inaugural meeting. In this TRB, Dr. Hossain has presented three research papers from his works at Illinois and Waterloo, and they sum-up to hit 20th paper presented in TRB聽in last 6 years…..View More