Civil Engineering

Research interests are primarily in the experimental investigation of sustainable materials for civil engineering applications and pavement structural analysis. His research focuses on optimizing sustainable paving solutions, chemo-mechanical characterization of polymeric agents from end-of-life products to better understand their interactions with bituminous materials, understanding fatigue and thermal cracking mechanisms in asphalt for developing performance-based mix-design techniques and predictive models.

Dr. Qingxu "Bill" Jin is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He earned his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering with minor in Materials Chemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology. During his PhD studies, Dr. Jin was a guest researcher in the Materials and Structural Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under an NSF INTERN grant. Dr. Jin also received his dual M.Sc.

Dr. Cetin is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  He has over 12 years of experience in academia in the field of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. He received his Ph.D. from University of Maryland-College Park (2012). He is the head of the Sustainable Geotechnical Infrastructure Group  (SGIG).

Dr. Cetin is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  She is a licensed Professional Engineer and a LEED AP, and has over 10 years of experience in academia and industry in her field. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was also an NSF IGERT Fellow with a focus on Sustainable Grid Integration of Renewable and Distributed Resources.  Prior to her PhD studies, Dr.

Dr. Peter Savolainen is an MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. During the course of his academic career, Dr. Savolainen has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on more than $14 million of externally funded research through competitive grant awards from agencies including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, and various state departments of transportation.