Roger W. Meier holds B.S. (Virginia Tech), M.S. (University of Colorado), and Ph.D. (Georgia Tech) degrees in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of The University of Memphis since 1995. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), which is now called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).

Dr. Meier’s academic background is in geotechnical engineering, but his masters thesis was on the constitutive behavior of fiber-reinforced concrete and his doctoral dissertation was on nondestructive testing of pavements. Since arriving at The University of Memphis, his research interests have mainly been in the areas of pavement testing, pavement material properties, and pavement management systems.

Dr. Meier has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of highway materials, pavement engineering, soil mechanics, engineering economics, probability and statistics, and numerical methods, among others. He is the ASCE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor and the Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the Department of Civil Engineering.

Dr. Meier is active as an officer in the ASCE West Tennessee Branch and ACI Mid-America Chapter and is a member of ASTM Committee D04 on Road and Paving Materials. He is also a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and the International Journal of Pavement Engineering.

Dr. Meier received the 2006 Peter G. Hoadley Award for Outstanding Engineering Education from the ASCE Tennessee Section and both the Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2004) and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (2007) from the Herff College of Engineering at The University of Memphis.