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Benjamin Bowers

Civil and Environmental Engineering

McCartney-Chase Highway Engineering Distinguished Associate Professor (Pavements and Materials)

202G Ramsay Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Research Interests

Sustainable Design
Pavement Materials
Infrastructure Resilience
Integration of Reclaimed Materials into Pavement
Cold Recycling

In The News

Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty plan to help agencies implement resilience planning to everyday operations

Jeff LaMondia, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Ben Bowers, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, are attempting to help local and state agencies incorporate transportation resilience policies into their everyday planning.

Hope for the future: Summer program introduces STEM principles to underrepresented students

For 45 rising ninth through 12th graders, envisioning themselves as future engineering undergraduates just became that much easier after spending a week at Auburn University enrolled in the Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) program.

Auburn Engineering faculty named to 2024 promotion, tenure list

Auburn University Provost Vini Nathan recently announced the names of faculty awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2024, including 19 faculty in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

A solid foundation: Finding more than education in Advanced Structural Engineering Lab

Amy Diekmann was well into a doctoral program at a different institution when, in April 2020, the family moved to Fairhope. Five months later, as Amy and her husband, Tim, welcomed a third daughter, Amy desired to transfer and complete her degree elsewhere. She applied to several schools, including Auburn.

CEE assistant professor lands $1.25 million FAA grant

Bowers is the principal investigator on a $1.25 million grant funded by the Federal Aviation Administration through the Airfield Pavement Technology Program cooperative agreement managed by the National Asphalt Pavement Association. The project “Synthesis and State of Practice and Research Needs for Airfield Asphalt Pavement Resilience.”

Professors' work with roadway resiliency recognized by national organization

Jeffrey LaMondia and Benjamin Bowers were recently awarded the Resilient Roads Roundtable’s Innovators and Influencers Award.

Auburn hosts 66th annual Alabama Transportation Conference

On Feb. 6, approximately a thousand federal and state highway personnel, road building contractors, general contractors, heavy construction contractors, utility contractors, county engineers, consulting engineers, construction material vendors, researchers, professional society representatives and university faculty members converged on Montgomery to share advances in transportation planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance, same as they have for the past 66 years.

Civil and environmental engineering research team honored with FHWA award

A team of researchers in Auburn's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering were honored with an Environmental Excellence Award from the Federal Highway Administration.

Civil and environmental engineering professor joins NAPA carbon emissions task force

Civil engineering assistant professor Benjamin Bowers is one of just three academics invited to join a one-year-old National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) taskforce aimed at achieving zero net carbon emissions by 2050.

Auburn Engineering transportation expertise on full display at 2022 TRB conference

The national influence of Auburn's new Transportation Research Institute (AUTRI) will be on full display next week in front of thousands of transportation professionals.

NOAA awards Auburn team $1.5M to research resilient transportation infrastructure

As part of its highly competitive Effects of Sea Level Rise (ESLR) program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected an interdisciplinary team of Auburn University researchers to lead a $1.539M project to address increasingly critical needs necessary for resilient infrastructure.

#GINNing Podcast: The Pavement Powers of Benjamin Bowers

Sustainability and pavement — that's what Ben Bowers does.

Auburn leads upcoming 62nd Annual Alabama Transportation Conference

As an institutional leader of transportation research and workforce development, Auburn University’s Department of Civil Engineering has taken the lead to organize and develop the 62nd Annual Alabama Transportation Conference. The conference, which takes place Feb. 12-13 at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel at the Convention Center, will welcome nearly 1,000 federal and state highway personnel, road building contractors, general contractors, heavy construction contractors, utility contractors, county engineers, consulting engineers, construction material vendors, researchers, professional society representatives and university faculty members.