Dr. Chang was born in Lima. His bachelor's degree is from the "Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria" in Peru (1991), Master of Science (1999) and Ph.D. (2007) from Texas A&M . <br><br>Dr. Chang joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UTEP in August 2008. Dr. Chang is recognized as an international expert on roadway materials, pavement evaluation and design, pavement management, knowledge management, decision making techniques, and asset management. He has more than 100 publications including technical papers and books.

• NSPE-Tx Excellence Award for the Promotion of TSPE's Mission and Goals - National Society of Professional Engineers - Texas (11/14/2018)
• Texas Society of Professional Engineers Excellence Award - Texas Society of Professional Engineers (06/22/2016)
• UTEP Gold Standard Organization Leadership Award - Universtity of Texas at El Paso (04/29/2016)
• ISMARTI Vice President of the North-American Region - International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures (ISMARTI). (03/01/2016-03/31/2016)
• Transportation Research Board-Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship - Transportation Research Board (TRB) (01/01/2016-01/31/2016)
• ASCE Chair of the International Subcommittee on International Activities, Infrastructure and Systems Committee - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Transportation and Development Institute (01/01/2015-01/31/2015)
• Best Professor of the Pavement Engineering and Highway Design - EAFIT University, Colombia (12/01/2014-12/31/2014)
• Outstanding Reviewer - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Journal of Infrastructure Systems (04/01/2014-04/30/2014)
• IRF Jerry Shea Award 2014 - International Road Federation (01/16/2014)
• IRF Road Scholar Fellowship 2014 - International Road Federation (01/15/2014)
• 2013 NCEES Engineering Award for Connecting Professional Practice and Education - National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (06/01/2013-06/30/2013)
• European Friedrich List Award 2012 - European Platform of Transport Sciences (08/24/2012)
• 2012 NCEES Engineering Award for Connecting Professional Practice and Education - National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (06/01/2012-06/30/2012)
• 2011 NCEES Engineering Award for Connecting Professional Practice and Education - National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, (06/01/2011-06/30/2011)
• Andrew D. Jones Award - UTEP Civil Engineering (05/12/2011)
• IRF Road Scholar Fellowship 2011 - International Road Federation (01/15/2011)
• Andrew D. Jones Award - UTEP Civil Engineering (05/14/2010)
• Outstanding Performance Award - Research and Sponsored Project, UTEP (12/01/2008-12/31/2008)
• The Dr. Mino Award of Excellence - International Road Federation (IRF) (12/01/2005-12/31/2005)
• International Road Federation (IRF) Fellowship Program - International Road Federation (IRF) (06/01/1997-06/30/1997)

• Ph D in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University (2007)
• MS in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University (1999)
• BS in Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (UNI) (1989)

• Impact of Splitting and Raveling on the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) 11th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA) (2020), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Sui Tan, Roger Smith.
• Final Report: Development of an Active Transportation System Planning Methodology to Enhance Multimodal Connectivity in the El Paso MPO Region CTIS (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, .
• Methodologies to Establish Levels of Service Based on IRI XX Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Conference (2019), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marta Pagola, Raoul Salas.
• Asset Management Systems for A Sustainable Development of Smart Cities International Conference on Smart Cities, iSMARTI (2019), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Miroslav Svitek, Tomas Horak.
• A Methodology to Quantify the Impact of Climate Change on the State of Good Repair of Pavements 7th International Conference Bituminous Mixtures and Pavements (ICONFBMP) (2019), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Oscar Ortega.
• Factorial Design Applied to Pavement Mechanistic-Empirical Design Methods XIX Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Conference (2019), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Alberto Esteban-Ciria.
• Sustainable Design of Rigid Pavements Using a Maching Learning-Based Method ASCE Geo-Congress 2019: The Eighth International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering (2019), Abbasali TaghaviGhalesari, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• A Knowledge Management Model for the Development of Higher-Level Education Multidimensional Competencies INTED 2019 (2019), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Luis A. Calderron-Coello, Ana C. Chang.
• Final Report: Vulnerable Road User Safety Enhancements for Transportation Asset Management CTECH (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Edgar Rodriguez, .
• Incorporating Livability into Transportation Asset Management Practices through Bikeway Quality Networks Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2019), Marketa Vavrova, Mike Medina, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Incorporating Livability into Transportation Asset Management Practices through Bikeway Quality Networks 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (2019), Marketa Vavrova, Mike Medina, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Calibration helps reduce disagreement between different pavement condition indices Journal of Uncertain Systems 13 2 (2019), Edgar Rodriguez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• How to estimate pavement roughness: beyond International Roughness Index Journal of Uncertain Systems 13 2 (2019), Edgar Rodriguez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Relationship Between Measurement Results and Expert Estimates of Cumulative Quantities, on the Example of Pavement Roughness Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2019, Xiamen, China, Decmber 6-9, 2019 (2019), Edgar Rodriguez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Towards a Theoretical Explanation of How Pavement Condition Index Deteriorates over Time Journal of Uncertain Systems 13 3 (2019), Edgar Rodriguez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Technical Report 2: Development of an Active Transportation System Planning Methodology to Enhance Multimodal Connectivity in the El Paso MPO Region CTIS (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, .
• Risk-Based Asset Management Approach to Address Climate Change on Bridges ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Oscar Ortega, Jeffrey Weidner.
• How to Take Expert Uncertainty into Account: Economic Approach Illustrated by Pavement Engineering Applications Springer (2019), Edgar Rodriguez Velazquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Thach N. Nguyen, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Reporting the Pavement Condition for Local Roads to HPMS using PCI, IRI, and PSR Criteria 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (2019), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Roger Smith, Sui Tan, Edgar Rodriguez.
• Strategic Active Transportation Planning for Metropolitan Planning Organizations with Limited Resources 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (2019), Marketa Vavrova, Mike Medina, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Pavement Networks 4th International Conference on Transport Infrastructure (2018), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Edgar Rodriguez, Margot Yapp, Linda Pierce.
• A Sustainable Performance-Based Methodology to Address the Impact of Climate Changes on the “State of Good Repair” of Transportation Infrastructure (in press), CARLOS M. CHANG, Oscar Ortega.
• Reporting the Pavement Condition for Local Roads Using PCI, IRI, and PSR Criteria (in press), CARLOS M. CHANG, Roger Smith, Edgar Rodriguez.
• Technical Report 1: Development of an Active Transportation System Planning Methodology to Enhance Multimodal Connectivity in the El Paso MPO Region CTIS (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, .
• Fuzzy Ideas Explain a Complex Heuristic Algorithm for Gauging Pavement Conditions Mathematical Structures and Modeling 47 (2018), Edgar Rodriguez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Measurement-Type "Calibration" of Expert Estimates Improves Their Accuracy and Their Usability: Pavement Engineering Case Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions CIES'2018, Bengaluru, India, November 18-21, 2018 (in press), Edgar D. Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Challenges in the Preparation and Place of Asphalt Mixes with Polymers to Achieve a Good Pavement Performance XIX Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Conference (2017), Paul Lavaud, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Luis Valdez.
• Factorial Pavement Design and Analysis based on Mechanistic-Empirical Methods XIX Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Conference (2017), Alberto Esteban-Ciria, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Edgar Rodriguez.
• Serviciability Levels based on the International Roughness Index (IRI) XIX Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Conference (2017), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Juan Marcobal, Pedro Munoz, Luis Valdez.
• A Framework to Analyze the Feasibility of Vehicle Miles Travelled Fees to Finance a Sustainable Transportation System Journal of the Transportation Research Forum (2017), Marketa Vavrova, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Development of a Sustainable Performance-Based Methodology for Strategic Planning Based on MAP-21 CTIS (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, .
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Highway Assets - Final Report Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems (2017), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Soheil Nazarian, Roger Smith, Marketa Vavrova, Margot Yapp, Linda M. Pierce, Timin Punnackal, Jason Puccinelli, Mei-Hui Lee, William Robert.
• Incorporating Livability Principles in the Development of Transportation Asset Management Plans WCPAM World Conference on Pavement and Asset Management (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, Edgar Rodriguez, Luis Valdez.
• Quantification on the Impact of Roadway Conditions on Emissions Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Fengxiang Qiao, Imad N. Abdallah, Mehdi Azimi, Oscar Gonzalez, Mahreen Nabi, Mahbuba Khan, Quing Li, Shahrouz Ghadimi, Naim Buhaya, Soheil Nazarian, Lei Yu.
• Development of a Performance-Based Model to Integrate Guardrail System Preservation Policies into Asset Management Practices Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2017), Shahrouz Ghadimi, Sandra Gutierrez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Blended Learning Strategies for Smart Students: Why Do They Fail? EDULEARN 2016 (2016), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Ana C. Chang.
• Development of Probability-Based Pavement Performance Curves for Pavement Management Systems 8th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV8) (in press), Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Rafael Ramirez.
• Vulnerable User Road Safety Enhancements for Transportation Asset Management ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (2016), Marketa Vavrova, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.

• Incorporating Vulnerable Road User Safety into the Transportation Asset Management Decision-Making Process to Mitigate Pedestrian Facilities (2020), Volume Washington DC, U.S., Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, Mike Medina.
• Incorporating Vulnerable Road User Safety into the Transportation Asset Management Decision-Making Process (2020), Volume Washington DC, U.S., Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, Mike Medina.
• Sustainability and Concrete Pavements (2019), Volume Santiago, Chile, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Rigid Pavements Mechanistic Design Fundamental Concepts (2019), Volume Santiago, Chile, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• New Pavement Design Method: Pavement Designer Webinar (2019), Volume Webinar, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2019), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2019), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Engineering Intelligent Solutions for a Sustainable Development of the Society (2019), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design Methods (2019), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Long-Term Pavement Performance Climatic Data (2019), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Multi-Objective Sustainable (MOS)Model: Crosswalks, Bikeways, and Vulnerable Road Users (2019), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Update to Correlation among PCI, IRI, and PSR (2019), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Various PSR, IRI, and PSR Conversion Formulas Analysis (2019), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Reporting the Pavement Condition for Local Roads to HPMS using PCI, IRI, and PSR Criteria (2019), Volume Washington DC, U.S., Carlos M. Chang Albitres, .
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Knowledge Management for Smart Decisions towards the Sustainable Development of the Society (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Vulnerable Road User Safety Enhancements for Transportation Asset Management (2018), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• NCHRP 859 Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Highway Assets (2018), Volume Wisconsin, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Introduction to Asset Management (2018), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2018), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Modern Tools for the Pavement Concrete Design (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• New Advancements in the Implementations of the AASHTO-MEPDG 2015 (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• MTC Data Integration Peer Exchange (2018), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Asset Management 101 (2018), Volume California, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Pavement Networks (2018), Volume Pretoria, South Africa, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Modern Methodologies for an Efficient Road Infrastructure Management (2018), Volume Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Development of Intelligent Solutions in Engineering (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Pavement Design Using the MTC Peruvian Manual (2018), Volume Tacna Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Concrete Pavement Design: From the Parameters to the Structure (2018), Volume Asuncion, Paraguay, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• AASHTO Mechanistic – Empirical Pavement Design and Pavement Designer for Concrete Pavement Design (2018), Volume Asuncion, Paraguay, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design Methods (2018), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2018), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Highway Assets: Bridges (2018), Volume Washington DC, U.S., Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Sustainable Performance-Based Methodology for Strategic Metropolitan Planning (2018), Volume Washington DC, U.S., Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Marketa Vavrova, Mike Medina.
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Highway Assets (2018), Volume New Mexico, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Challenges in the Preparation and Place of Asphalt Mixes with Polymers to Achieve a Good Pavement Performance (2017), Volume Colombia, Paul Lavaud, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Factorial Pavement Design and Analysis based on Mechanistic-Empirical Methods (2017), Volume Colombia, Alberto Esteban, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Serviciability Levels based on the International Roughness Index (IRI) (2017), Volume Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Models and Numerical Methods for Smart Solutions in Engineering (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Road Maintenance and Preservation (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design and Rehabilitation (2017), Volume Barranquilla Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2017), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Methods and the AASHTO MEPDG 2015 (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Methods and the AASHTO MEPDG 2015 (2017), Volume Arequipa - Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Maintenance and Rehabilitation Techniques for Concrete Pavements (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Relevant Changes in the AASHTO-MEPDG 2015 and Innovations in Mechanistic-Pavement Design Methods (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Ultrathin Concrete Pavement Overlays: Myths and Truths (2017), Volume Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Sustainable Concrete Pavements (2017), Volume Costa Rica, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Mechanistic-Empirical Concrete Pavement Design Manual (2017), Volume Costa Rica, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Highway Assets (2017), Volume Rhode Island, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Whitetopping: A True Alternative to Rehabilitate Old Pavements (2017), Volume Guatemala, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Pavement Design Criteria for Mechanistic-Empirical Methods (2017), Volume Guatemala, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• 22. Incorporating livability principles in the development of transportation Asset Management plans (2017), Volume Milan, Italy, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• CTECH: Center for Transportation, Environment and Community Health (2017), Volume El Paso, Texas, Ruey Long K. Cheu, Wen-Whai Li, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2017), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Pavement Design Methods (2017), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• New Technologies for Pavement Evaluation and Quality Control (2017), Volume Queretaro, Mexico, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2016), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Concrete Pavement Design Using the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide AASHTO 2008 (2016), Volume Guatemala, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Sustainability for Concrete Pavements (2016), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Alternative Solutions and Treatments for Low-Volume Traffic Roads (2016), Volume Rosario, Argentina, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Infrastructure Management Strategies to Improve Road Safety (2016), Volume Rosario, Argentina, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Nuevas Tecnologías para la Evaluación de Pavimentos (2016), Volume Bucaramanga, Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2016), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Pavement Design Using the MTC Peruvian Manual (2016), Volume Tacna Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Factors Influencing the IRI Measurements (2016), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Roads Maintenance and Evaluation Parameters Workshop (2016), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Development of Probability-Based Pavement Performance Curves for Pavement Management Systems (2016), Volume Singapore, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Blended Learning Strategies for Smart Students: Why Do They Fail? (2016), Volume Barcelona, Spain, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Vulnerable User Road Safety Enhancements for Transportation Asset Management (2016), Volume Blacksburg, Virginia, Marketa Vavrova, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Structural Pavement Design (2016), Volume Lima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Soluciones y tratamientos bituminosos para vías de bajo volumen de tráfico (2016), Volume Bogota, Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Advanced Pavement Design (2016), Volume Medellin Colombia, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• Airport Pavement Evaluation and Management (2016), Volume Liima, Peru, Carlos M. Chang Albitres.
• A Hybrid Modeling Approach for Quantifying Maintenance and Rehabilitation Treatment Effectiveness of Asphalt (2016), Volume Washington DC, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Daniel Saenz, Jenny Li.

• North Texas Bicycle and Pedestrian Analysis
• Vulnerable User Road Safety Enhancements for Transportation Asset Management
• A Sustainable Performance-Based Methodology to Address the Impact of Climate Changes on the “State of Good Repair” of Transportation Infrastructure,
• Cost Effective Alternatives to Seal Coats
• Consequences of Delayed Maintenance of Highway Assets