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Associated Schools of Construction: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference
Auburn University - Auburn, Alabama
April 2 - 5, 2008

Moderators

Recognition for the ASC Board of Reviewers

On behalf of the Associated Schools of Construction, the members of the Publication Committee would like to thank the following individuals of the International ASC Board of Reviewers who have contributed to the 2008 paper review process. Without their effort, the 44th Annual Proceedings would not be possible.

Hussein Abaza	Southern Poly University	D. Perry Achor	Purdue University
Syed Ahmed	Florida International University	Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead
Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore	Alan Atalah	Bowling Green State University
Flynn Auchey	Virginia Tech University	Dennis Audo	Pittsburg State University
Salman Azhar	Auburn University	Bill Badger	Arizona State University
Gouranga Banik	Southern Polytechnic State University	Ismail Basha	Georgia Southern University
David Batie	East Carolina University	Dennis Bausman	Clemson University
Yvan Beliveau	Virginia Tech	William Bender	Central Washington University
Stuart Bernstein	University of Nebraska	Charles Berryman	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Richard Boser	Illinois State University	Hollis Bray	University of Louisiana at Monroe
Richard Bruce	University of Central Missouri	Kevin Burr	Brigham Young University
Richard Burt	Texas A&M	Craig Capano	Wentworth Institute of Technology
Jim Carr	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Kibert Charles	University of Florida
Douglas Chelson	California State University, Chico	Don Chen	Ball State University
Abdol Chini	University of Florida	Ifte Choudhury	Texas A&M University
Jay Christofferson	Brigham Young University	Shima Clarke	Clemson University
Carol Considine	Old Dominion University	Wesley Crawford	Purdue
Bruce Dallman	College of Technology	Muge Mukaddes Darwish	Texas Tech University
Martin David	Eastern Kentucky University	D. Darshi De Saram	North Dakota State University
Hazar Dib	The University of Southern Mississippi	David Dillon	NC A&T University
Dennis Dorward	Pennsylvania College of Technology	Carrie Sturts Dossick	University of Washington
Philip Dunn	University of Maine	John Dye	Florida International University (retired)
Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University	Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University
Hazem Elzarka	University of Cincinnati	Michael Emmer	Milwaukee School of Engineering
C. Ben Farrow	Auburn University	Christine Fiori	Virginia Tech
Bruce Fischer	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Charles Gains	Boise State University
Zhili Gao	North Dakota State Universtiy	Mousa Gargari	University of Cincinnati
Zhi Ge	North Dakota State University	Richard Gebken	Missouri State University
Bruce Gehrig	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Amine Ghanem	California State University Northridge
Dennis Gier	California State University, Chico	Chris Gordon	Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
Denise Gravitt	Western Kentuck University	Kevin Grosskopf	University of Florida
Angela Guggemos	Colorado State University	David Gunderson	Washington State University
John Hannon	The University of Southern Mississippi	Marwa Hassan	Louisiana State University
Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo	Rita Hawkins	Missouri State University
Paul Holley	Auburn University	Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York
Mark Hutchings	Brigham Young University	Ben Ilozor	Eastern Michigan University
Javier Irizarry	Southern Polytechnic State University	James Jenkins	Purdue University
Wayne Jensen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Donald Jensen, Jr.	Western Carolina University
Aiyin Jiang	University of Cincinnati	Yi Jiang	Purdue University
Barry Jones	California Polytechnic State University	James Jones	Ball State University
Dean Kashiwagi	Arizona State University	Doris Kemp	University of Southern Mississippi
Chul Kim	Indiana State University	Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington
Kraig Knutson	Arizona State University	Daphene Koch	Purdue University
Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University	Scott Kramer	Auburn University
Kihong Ku	Virginia Tech	Melvyn Lees	University of Salford
Jeffrey Lew	Purdue	Wen Liu	Michigan Technological University
Huanqing Lu	East Carolina University	David Manry	University of Louisiana at Monroe
Kris Mattila	Michigan Technological University	Ronald Mau	Western Carolina University
Steven McCrary	Missouri State University	Bill McManus	University of Oklahoma
Stephen Mead	Northern Arizona University	Kevin Miller	Brigham Young University
Thomas Mills	Virginia Tech	Jeffrey Molavi	University of Cincinnati
John Murphy	Auburn University	Larry Muszynski	University of Florida
John Nichols	Texas A&M University	MaryEllen Nobe	Colorado State University
Esther Obonyo	University of Florida	Svetlana Olbina	University of Florida
Paul Oppenheim	University of Florida	Daryl Orth	Northern Kentucky University
James Otter	Pittsburg State University	Pat Pannell	South Dakota State
Borinara Park	Illinois State University	John Patterson	Western Carolina Universtiy
Christine Piper	Clemson University	James Pocock	U. S. Air Force Academy
Randy Rapp	AACE International	Georg Reichard	Virginia Tech
Thomas Rogers	Northern Arizona University	James Russell	Humboldt State University
Richard Ryan	University of Oklahoma	Anoop Santtineni	Auburn University
John Schaufelberger	University of Washington	John Schmidt	Ferris State University
Raymond Schneider	Clemson University	Bolivar Senior	Colorado State University
Zhigang Shen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Wayne Sheppard	Pennsylvania College of Technology
Scott Shuler	Colorado State	Khalid Siddiqi	Southern Polytechnic State University
Tulio Sulbaran	University of Southern Mississippi	Brad Sims	Western Carolina University
David Sillars	Oregon State University	James Smith	Texas A&M
Bruce Smith	Auburn University	Kenneth Sullivan	Arizona State University
James Strueber	Appalachian State University	Kenneth Tiss	State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Keith Sylvester	East Carolina University	Philip Udo-Inyang	Temple University
Michael Tramel	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Tim Wentz	Nebraska
Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato	Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University
Nancy White	Central Michigan University	Jeong Han Woo	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Joseph Wintz	Clemson University	Ronald Woolsey	University of Central Missouri
Paul Woods	Texas A&M University	Haiyan Xie	University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Session Moderators for the 2008 International Proceedings

Afsaneh Ardehali University of Cincinnati Dennis Audo Pittsburg State University
Salman Azhar Auburn University Gouranga Banik Southern Polytechnic State University
Amal Basha Georgia Southern University Ismail Basha Georgia Southern University
Rick Boser Illinois State University Jim Carr University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Travis Chapin Bowling Green State University Erich Connell East Carolina University
MugeMukaddes Darwish Texas tech Universtiy Carrie Sturts Dossick University of Washington
Mohamed El-Gafy Michigan State University Jose Fernandez-Solis Texas A&M University
Chris Gordon Southern Illinois University Edwardsville David Gunderson Washington State University
Thomas Mills Virginia Tech Jeffrey Molavi University of Cincinnati
Mary Nobe Colorado State University Daryl Orth Northern Kentucky University
Michael Puddicombe Norwich University Randy Rapp AACE International
Tulio Sulbaran University of Southern Mississippi Yuhong Wang East Carolina University
Paul Woods Texas A&M

Special Thanks

It is specially important to recognize that the review process, conversion of files to web format, and diligent preparation of papers for publications was possible due to the hard work of Carlos Sterling, Assistant to the Editor.

Many thanks!

Tulio Sulbaran, Ph.D
ASC Proceedings Editor/Publisher

The University of Southern Mississippi