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Brent Phares, received his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in Civil Engineering Structures in Aug., 1998. He is Associate Director for Bridges and Structures at Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research and Education where he is responsible for the daily and long-term administrative, research, and education activities related to bridges and structures. He is also Bridge Engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation, Office of Bridges and Structures, where his duties include training bridge engineering staff, conducting bridge related research, developing research funding sources, and other special projects. In these positions his responsibilities also include the development and execution of field and laboratory NDE system capability studies to determine the performance of various NDE technologies. He has been awarded grants from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Iowa Highway Research Board, and the Federal Highway Administration. He is the author of numerous technical publications and reports. | 