September 2014, Vol. 69, No. 9
Newsline
Iseley Named Director Of Trenchless Technology Center
The Trenchless Technology Center (TTC), located on the campus of Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, has appointed Dr. David Thomas Iseley, P.E., as the next director of TTC and the Contractors Education Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction Technology.
The appointment comes in the wake of a decision by the current TTC director, Dr. Erez Allouche, P.E., to seek a one-year leave of absence for personal reasons, who has been a driving force behind the rapid expansion of the TTC’s research portfolio in recent years.
No stranger to the TTC, the center sprang from Iseley’s vision for a university-industry partnership in research and development when he began teaching at Louisiana Tech University in 1988. Under his vision, the TTC was established in 1989.
Iseley has nearly 39 years of experience in the planning, design and construction of underground infrastructure systems. From 1982 until 1995, he served on the faculty of Mississippi State University, Purdue University, Louisiana Tech University, and as chairman of the department of Construction Technology at the Purdue University School of Engineering & Technology in Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is a founding director of the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT). Iseley also served for three years as the chairman of the National Utility Contractors Association’s (NUCA) Trenchless Technology Committee. He served on the board of directors of the American Underground Construction Association (AUA) from 1991 to 2005. Iseley’s current position has been serving as professor and director of the Construction Engineering Management Technology at the Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI.
Iseley holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and M.B.A. degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. He has over 100 publications and presentations on topics of trenchless technology, microtunneling, water and sewer rehabilitation, horizontal directional drilling and construction management.
Further strengthening the status the TTC has earned in the trenchless technology community, a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in structural engineering will join the staff in September. In addition, Dr. Shaurav Alam, who is actively involved in several TTC projects, has been retained as a research assistant professor.
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