Professor
North South University
Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Professor Dr. Javed Bari, PE, obtained his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from BUET in 1993. Later, he received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, specializing in Transportation Engineering. Dr. Bari is one of the few Professional Engineers (PE) of the USA working in Bangladesh. He is also a Life Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) and Member of ASCE.
Dr. Bari joined North South University in 2013. Later, he joined as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on March 2, 2015, and as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (SEPS) on March 5, 2019. He is currently serving his second term in the NSU Syndicate.
Dr. Javed Bari has about thirty years of teaching, research, and industrial experience in various fields of Civil Engineering. He is considered a USA South-Western specialist in transportation and materials. He was one of the key researchers who developed the globally known new AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG).
Dr. Bari worked in the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) as a team leader and Sr. Pavement Design Engineer from 2005 to 2010. He managed numerous research and highway construction projects totaling over 800 million dollars. Dr. Bari worked in Bangladesh's three central government’s civil engineering departments, e.g., RHD, PWD, and LGED, between 1994 and 1999. After returning from the USA in 2011, he briefly worked at the IUBAT University in Dhaka as a Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the South Asian Disaster Management Center (SADMC).
He has been involved with the World Bank in its Transport portfolio in Bangladesh and with Bureau Veritas in its structural assessment works of industrial buildings. Dr. Bari attended numerous professional training sessions such as strategic plan and management, iRAP and ViDA, Incident Command System (ICS), Successful Management of Project Development Process, Carbon Footprint of Pavements, Rural Infrastructure Maintenance, Pavement Preservation for High-Traffic-Volume Roadways, Asphalt Emulsions, Strategic Planning, Performance Measures, Operational Management, Budgeting Process, Successful Management of Project Development Process, Project Reference, etc. Dr. Bari has numerous publications in many international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, such as the journals and proceedings of ASCE, TRB, AAPT, ITE, ASC, etc.
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Development of a Practical Methodology for Evaluating the Conditions of Sidewalks of Dhaka City
Sunday, June 16, 2024
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM ET