Muhammed Kutay
Contact Information
Phone:
(517) 353-9297
Email:
kutay@msu.edu
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography
Dr. M. Emin Kutay is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His expertise encompasses a wide range of topics in transportation infrastructure evaluation and management, with a particular focus on asphalt mixture material characterization (both experimental and modeling), pavement analysis and design using mechanistic-empirical methods, pavement preservation techniques, and geotechnical engineering.
Education
- Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park 2005
- M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park 2002
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 2001
Selected Publications
- Abdollahi, S. F., Vaddy, P., Kutay, M. E. (2024). "Development of a Mechanistic-Empirical Based Highway Cost Allocation Model for Flexible Pavements", Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, DOI: 10.1177/03611981231217743.
- Vaddy, P., Islam, T., Kutay, M. E., Vrtis, M., Haider, S. W., Cetin, B., (2023) " Evaluating the Short-term Performance of Spray-on Rejuvenators using a Modified Bending Beam Rheometer Test Methodology", Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198123120903
- Farina, A., Kutay, M. E. and Anctil, A. (2023) "Environmental assessment of asphalt mixtures modified with polymer coated rubber from scrap tires", Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 418, 138090, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138090.
- Abdollahi, F., Kutay, M. E, Ghazavi, M. (2023) “MatFEA: An efficient finite element framework for analyzing pavement structures with nonlinear unbound materials”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2677, Issue 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198122115024
- Hasnat, M., Singh, R., Kutay, M. E., Bryce, J., Haider, S., Cetin, B. (2023)," A Comparative Study of Different Condition Indices Using Michigan DOT’s Flexible Distress Data" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, https://doi.org/10.1177/036119812311569
MSU Scholar
Google Scholar
Awards
- Academic Leadership Fellow, Michigan State University (2024-2025)
- Transportation Research Board Annual Conference Best Poster Award, from the AKP30 committee. (2023)
- William A. Bradley award for Outstanding Faculty Member (from ASCE MSU Student Chapter) (2015)
- ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize (2009)
- Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) Walter J. Emmons Award for the best paper presented at the April 2008 Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA for the following paper: Kutay, M.E., Gibson, N.H. and Youtcheff, J. (2009) “Conventional and Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (VECD) based Fatigue Analysis of Polymer Modified Asphalt Pavements”, Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Vol. 77, pp. 395-434. (2008)
- ASCE Collingwood Prize for the following paper: Kutay, M.E., and Aydilek, A.H. (2008) “Dynamic Effects on Moisture Transport in Asphalt Concrete”, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 133, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 406-414. (2007)
- AASHTO National Competition Award for Transportation Professionalism for representing United States in the World Road Association PIARC Prizes 2007 international competition. (2007)
- Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (2003-2005)
