Professor T.F. Fwa
(National University of Singapore)
(Highway Engineering)

Dr. T. F. Fwa is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Transportation Research, National University of Singapore. He received his BEng (First Class Hons) from the then University of Singapore (now known as the National University of Singapore), MEng from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and PhD from Purdue University, USA.

Dr. Fwa’s research in the last 25 years covers all aspects of highway engineering, with special emphasis in the areas of pavement design, maintenance and management, and pavement performance evaluation and testing. He has published more than 200 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings, with more than 130 of them in leading international journals. His work has led to three patents in non-destructive pavement testing and evaluation. He is the editor of the recently published Handbook of Highway Engineering by CRC Press.

A widely respected researcher, Dr Fwa has been invited to lecture and make technical presentations in 16 countries, including keynote lectures at a number of international conferences and symposia. He has received a number of awards for his academic and research contributions, including the 1985 Eldon J. Yoder Memorial Award by Purdue University, USA, the 1992 Katahira Award by the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia, the 1992 Arthur M. Wellington Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 1995 Katahira Award by the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia, the 2000 Engineering Achievement Award by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, the Enterprise Challenge (TEC) Award 2002, Singapore, and the Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award 2005 by the American Society of Civil Engineers, USA.

Professor Fwa serves the international community in various capacities. He is the Asia Region Editor for the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering. He also serves on the editorial board of three other international journals: the International Journal of Pavement Engineering, the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design, and the International Journal of Pavements. He is currently Vice President of the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructure, Board Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, and Special Advisor to the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences. Locally, he has been chairing the Transportation Engineering Technical Sub-committee since 1993. He is the founding President of the Pavement Engineering Society (Singapore).

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