Finley Messick, executive director for the Kentucky Ready-Mixed Concrete Association (KRMCA), says that students at University of Louisville will have more to celebrate than an NCAA basketball championship. Messick reports that U of L is one of three engineering schools in Kentucky that will provide concrete pavement design classes. KRMCA has coordinated with the engineering departments at U of L, the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University to provide concrete pavement design instruction by means of incorporating NRMCA’s ACI 330: The Gold Standard of Concrete Parking Lot Design and Introduction to Concrete Pavement Analyst Webinars into the curriculum.

NRMCA Senior National Resource Directors Amy Miller, P.E., and Phil Kresge will present these Webinars and KRMCA will provide a facilitator for the classes. "The hope is that there will be a lot of interaction between the professors, students and presenters," says Messick. "By providing concrete classes on a yearly basis, students who will be soon in the engineering workforce will have a better understanding of the value concrete paving provides."

The U of L programs will be coordinated by Professor J. P. Mohsen, P.E., Ph.D., chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Louisville. UK’s Kamyar Cyrus (K.C.) Mahboub, P.E., Ph.D., director of graduate studies, will coordinate the programs for UK and will simulcast the presentations to WKU engineering students with the help of WKU Associate Professor Shane Palmquist.