Musharraf Zaman
Musharraf Zaman joined the University of Oklahoma (OU) Civil Engineering and Environmental Science faculty in 1982, after completing his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He was promoted to full professor in 1993 and was named the Aaron Alexander Professor in 2003. He served as the associate dean for research and graduate education, OU College of Engineering from July 2005 to December 2013. He has been an Alumni Chair professor of Petroleum and Geological Engineering since 2010. He is a prolific teacher and a highly accomplished researcher. During his tenure at OU, he has received several prestigious national-level teaching awards from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He also received the lifelong title of David Ross Boyd Professorship, the highest teaching award given by OU. During his tenure at OU, he has received over $60 million in external research funding from various state and federal agencies and industry, including major funding from the USDOT and ODOT. He has published more than 475 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and 17 books and book chapters. Several of his papers have won prestigious awards from national-level societies and organizations. In 2025, he received the Pursuit of Excellence Award from the GCoE. In 2026, under his leadership, the SPTC team received the Campus-Wide Award for Excellence in Transdisciplinary, Convergent Research. He is a fellow and life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology and Co-Editor of International Journal of Geomechanics (IJOG), ASCE. Since October 2013, he has been serving as the director of the Southern Plains Transportation Center.