Construction, Geotechnical and Structures

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
199 Spence Street
Room 705H
College Station, TX 77840
(979) 845-1940
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Dr. Mary Beth Hueste is the Truman R. Jones, Jr. ‘43 Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. She joined Texas A&M University in 1998 where she is a member of the structural engineering faculty. Dr. Hueste has been the Division Head for the Construction, Geotechnical and Structures (CGS) Division within the Texas A&M Transportation Institute since 2010 and served as TTI Major Highway Structures Program Manager from 2005-2023. She is internationally known through her research and professional service. 

Dr. Hueste conducts research promoting sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including the development of new design approaches and application of innovative materials to enhance the service-life, structural performance, and safety of the built environment. Much of Dr. Hueste’s research has concentrated on furthering the understanding of the use of new materials and designs for bridge structures, with a focus on prestressed concrete bridge systems. This work includes large- and full-scale laboratory testing, field testing of bridge structures, and computational modeling and analysis, balanced with practical design concerns to ensure that the findings can be adopted into practice. Her research has supported the implementation of spliced prestressed concrete girder bridge designs to achieve longer bridge spans with precast concrete girders, a new short-span accelerated bridge construction system using precast slab beams, a framework for identifying important bridges for historic preservation, and development and application of ultra-high performance concrete for prestressed bridge girders to achieve more durable and longer-span superstructure options. Dr. Hueste and her research team were recognized with the 2014 Preservation Achievement Award from the Board of Historic Fort Worth, and she received the 2014 TTI/Trinity Senior Researcher Award from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

Dr. Hueste is active in the American Concrete Institute (ACI), where she was named Fellow of the Institute in 2011. In 2016 she was honored with the ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award from ACI, “for outstanding leadership of Committee 352, Joints and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures—Joint ACI-ASCE”. From 2019-2025, she served on the Technical Activities Committee (TAC), which oversees all technical committees and activities of the Institute. She is also a member of ACI Committee 318 (Building Code), which develops and maintains the building code requirements for structural concrete adopted in the US and other countries around the world. Dr. Hueste was recognized in 2021 with the ACI Joe W. Kelly Award. She received the 2022 Professor Achievement Award from the ACI Houston Chapter. She is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the ACI Structural Journal and Engineering Structures and was elected to serve a three-year term on the ACI Board of Direction beginning in 2025.