Amy Epps Martin, Ph.D.

Professor

Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
• M.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
• B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Short Biography

Dr. Amy Epps Martin has more than 27 years of experience teaching asphalt pavement materials courses and conducting experimental research on safe, sustainable asphalt pavement technologies including both binders and mixtures. She obtained B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University where she is now the A.P. & Florence Wiley II Professor. Her leadership experience includes service as Division Head for Transportation and Materials (2011-2014, 2023-2024 Interim) and as PI on 12 state DOT research and implementation projects and 5 completed NCHRP projects (09-49, 09-49B, 09-58, 20-44(24), 09-65). She is currently serving as PI on NCHRP 09-70 and a large, multi-year effort to revise and further develop a Balanced Mix Design (BMD) system for TxDOT. She has also served as Co-PI or Co-Investigator on another 11 state and 6 national projects. She actively publishes and presents research at regional, national, and international conferences and workshops; including 124 journal, conference, and invited papers; 65 research reports, and 208 presentations. She has mentored 4 post-graduate researchers and 49 graduate students as chair of their committee, with many now serving as leading engineers and researchers in industry and academia. She also serves on relevant TRB committees (AKM20, AKC30) and as the current Past Past President of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) Board of Directors and participates with Women of Asphalt. In addition to multiple awards presented at Texas A&M and among other honors bestowed nationally, she was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2019, named to the 20 to Watch in 2020 by Women of Asphalt, and received the TRB K.B. Woods Award for the best paper in transportation infrastructure design and construction in 2021.