{"id":46561,"date":"2022-06-28T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=46561"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:15:33","slug":"tarleton-civil-engineering-professor-awarded-txdot-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-civil-engineering-professor-awarded-txdot-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton Civil Engineering Professor Awarded TxDOT Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"7217\" class=\"wp-image-46564\" width=\"219\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-267x400.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-1366x2048.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-1568x2351.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7217-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Dr. Fei Wang<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, June 28, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University Professor Dr. Fei Wang in the Department of Mechanical, Environmental and Civil Engineering and his collaborator, Dr. Jie Huang at UT San Antonio, were recently awarded a grant by the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research team, which will include two Tarleton students, will generate design guidance for highway projects based on cost-benefit analyses involving various ground improvement methodologies. The goal is to achieve a balance between cost and time savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Wang is a civil engineering Assistant Professor with expertise in transportation geotechnics, AI-geotechnics and sustainable construction materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton State University Professor Dr. Fei Wang in the Department of Mechanical, Environmental and Civil Engineering and his collaborator, Dr. Jie Huang at UT San Antonio, were recently awarded a grant by the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-46561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","tag-college-of-science-mathematics"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/07\/7216-300x200.jpeg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/homepage\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">_Homepage<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">_Homepage<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">College of Science &amp; Mathematics<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">College of Science &amp; Mathematics<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on June 28, 2022","modified":"Updated on July 13, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 28, 2022 8:15 am","modified":"Updated on July 13, 2022 8:15 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Man with glasses against a purple background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}