Dr. Manoj K. Jha, P.E.

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University Director, Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research Governor and Treasurer, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)-Region 2 Maryland Delegate of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)- Body of Knowledge (BOK) 2nd Edition Committee   (Click here for Dr. Jha’s brief bio)

Dr. Jha is the co-author of the book Intelligent Road Design published by the WIT Press in 2006; He is also a contributor to the book "Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition" that was released by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on Feb. 19, 2008 in a press conference at the National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C. Dr. Jha is currently co-authoring another book entitled "Fundamentals of Road Design" which is expected to be published in 2009 by the WIT press.

NewsFlash: Dr. Jha delivered a plenary lecture entitled “100 Years of Highway Transportation Research” at the 2008 Urban Planning and Transportation Conference at Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece. Find out more here

 

 

Dr. Jha’s research interests are in Highway Design Optimization and Visualization, Highway Maintenance, Geographic Information Systems, Bayesian Network Application for Assessing Impacts of Extreme Events, and Game Theoretic Modeling under Uncertainty. He is a two-time winner of the United Negro College Fund Special Programs/Department of Defense (UNCFSP/DoD) Faculty Development Award. He was a summer research fellow at the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Center of Excellence at the University of Maryland, College Park funded by the Department of Homeland Security. He has served as a PI, Co-PI, or collaborator with other researchers on numerous research projects totaling over $4 M. The key sponsoring agencies of his research projects include Army Research Lab., Maryland State Highway Administration, Federal Highway Administration, NSF, City of Baltimore, and several Baltimore area consulting firms.

Dr. Jha has authored (or co-authored) more than 80 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings in the highway design, optimization, and transportation literature. He has also co-authored 2 text-books on road design entitled “Intelligent Road Design” and “Fundamentals of Road Design.”.

For his scholastic and research achievements Dr. Jha has received several awards, among which are the 2005 and 2006 UNCFSP/DoD Faculty Development Award, 2005 DHS Summer Faculty Research award by the START Center, University of Maryland, College Park, and 2005 NSF-PASI-TS (Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on Transportation Sciences) award by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland since 1997.

Selected Publications 

 

Dr. Jha has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers. Selected publications are given below:

 

Jha, M.K., C.-C. Chen, P. Schonfeld, and S. Kikuchi (2008). An Evolutionary Path Planning Algorithm for Military Applications, proceedings of the IEEE 3^rd International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE 2008), Monterey, CA, June 2-4, 2008.

 

Samanta, S. and M.K. Jha (2008, in press). A Two-Stage Process for Optimizing Station Locations along Rail Transit Lines in Urban Areas, Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

 

Jha, M.K. (2008, in press). A Dynamic Bayesian Network for Predicting the Likelihood of a Terrorist Attack at Critical Transportation Infrastructure Facilities, Journal of Infrastructure Systems.

 

Jha, M.K. and A. Maji (2007). A Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Highway Alignments, proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM 2007), 261-266, Honolulu, HI, March 2007.

 

Kim, E., M.K. Jha, P. Schonfeld, and H.-S. Kim (2007). Highway Alignment Optimization Incorporating Bridges and Tunnels, Journal of Transportation Engineering, 133(2), 71-81.

Jha, M.K., P. Schonfeld, J.-C. Jong, and E. Kim (2006). Intelligent Road Design, WIT Press, SouthHampton, UK, ISBN: 1-84564-003-9, 448 pp.

 

Anderson, R.,…, Jha, M.K., et al. (2007). Preparing the Civil Engineer of Tomorrow by ‘Raising the Bar,’ Civil Engineering, 77(9), 60-67.

 

Jha, M.K., P. Schonfeld, and S. Samanta (2007). Optimizing Transit Rail Routes with Genetic Algorithms and GIS, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, September, 133(3), 161-171.

 

Jha, M.K., C. Davis, and M.-W. Kang (2007). State-of-the-art Intelligent Road Design Model with Genetic Algorithms, Geographic Information Systems, and CADD, Advances in Transportation Studies An International Journal, Section A&B, 13, 41-52.

 

Kim, E., M.K. Jha, P. Schonfeld, and H.-S. Kim (2007). Highway Alignment Optimization Incorporating Bridges and Tunnels, Journal of Transportation Engineering, 133(2), 71-81, February 2007.

 

Jha, M.K. and J. Abdullah (2006). A Markovian Approach for Optimizing Highway Life-Cycle with Genetic Algorithms by Considering Maintenance of Roadside Appurtenances, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 343, 404-419.

 

Jha, M.K. (2006). Feasibility of Computer Visualization in Highway Development: A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 21(2), 136-147.

 

Jha, M.K. (2006). Applying Bayesian Networks to Assess Vulnerability of Critical Transportation Infrastructure, in Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation (AATT), pp. 1-5, Wang, K.C. et al. (eds.), ASCE Press, Reston, VA, ISBN: 0-7844-0799-1, 872 pp.

 

Jha, M.K. and O. Marroquin (2006). A Dynamic Bayesian Network for Hurricane Planning and Preparedness, proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, October11-13, 2006, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Kikuchi, S. and M.K. Jha (2006). A Communicative Approach in Adjustment of Values, proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, INFORMS Sections on Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 2006.

 

Kim, E., M.K. Jha and B. Son (2005). Improving the Computational Efficiency of Highway Alignment Optimization Models through a Stepwise Genetic Algorithms Approach, Transportation Research, Part B, 39(4), 339-360.

 

Jha, M.K. and P. Schonfeld (2004). A Highway Alignment Optimization Model using Geographic Information Systems. Transportation Research, Part A, 38(6), 455-481.

 

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Synergistic Activities

1. Dr. Jha is the Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research at the Morgan State University which has over 20 graduate and undergraduate students, 10 affiliated faculty, and a budget of over 1 M.

 

2. He works in numerous professional committees and societies, including American Society of Civil Engineers’ CAP3 Committee.

 

3. Currently he is a Co-PI on a DoD funded $249K project and a PI on a NSF funded $150K project.

 

Collaborators and Other Affiliations

Recent Collaborators: P. Schonfeld and D. Lovell (Univ. of MD), M. Karlaftis (N.T.U., Athens), Jyh-Cherng Jong, (Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc., Taiwan), Eungcheol Kim (University of Incheon, South Korea), W. Kuhn (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany), S. Kikuchi (Virginia Tech.)

Advisors: Graduate advisors: Paul Schonfeld, D. Lovell. (Univ. of MD), S. N. Tiwari (Old Dominion Univ.)

Advisees:

PhD: C. Davis (now faculty with Virginia State University), J. Abdullah (now with City of Baltimore), A. Maji and S. Samanta (now with the Maryland State Highway Administration) and 10 current students; Masters: 4 graduated, and 8 current students.; B.S. over 30 BSCE stududent completed their senior design projects under Dr. Jha’s guidance.

 

 

Courses taught by Dr. Jha     Office Address:   Morgan State University Department of Civil Engineering 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane Baltimore, MD 21251, USA Dr. Jha is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Maryland since 1997.     Telephone: (443) 885-1446 (443) 885-8218 (Fax)     Email Address: mkjha@eng.morgan.edu

Education and Training:

 

• Part-time Post Doc. Research with Prof. Dusan Teodorovic, Virginia Tech. (Falls Church Campus), 6/00-7/01

 

• Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Civil Engineering, May 2000.

Ph.D. Dissertation: "A Geographic Information Systems-Based Model for Highway Design Optimization." Read Abstract.

• Doctoral work, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mechanical Engineering, 1993-1994.
• M.S., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, Mechanical Engineering, May 1993.

M.S. Thesis: "Effects of Radiative Interactions in Molecular Gases under Local and NonLocal Thermodynamic Equilibrium Conditions." Read Abstract.

• B.E., National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India., Mechanical Engineering, 1991.

 

Sponsored Research Projects:

Graduate Student Supervision

Professional Services:

1. Member of Board of Governors, Region-2, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
2. Member of ASCE’s Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice
3. Member of the House of Delegates, National Society of Professional Engineers
4. Member, TRB Committee on Operational Effects of Geometry
5. Faculty Advisor, National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) MSU Chapter
6. Member, TRB Committee ABJ70, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications in Transportation
7. Member, TRB Committee AHD10-Maintenance and Operations Management