Dr. Manoj K. Jha, P.E.

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University

Director, Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER)

Maryland Delegate to the House of Delegates, National Society of Professional Engineers

Dr. Manoj K. Jha is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the Morgan State University. He is also founding Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER). 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 90 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.