Susan Tighe

Dr. Susan L. Tighe's Homepage

Susan L. Tighe, PhD, PEng. Professor and Canada Research Chair, Norman W. McLeod Professor in Sustainable Pavement Engineering, Director of CPATT

Welcome to Dr. Tighe's homepage. Below is a short biography about Dr. Susan Tighe.

Dr. Susan Tighe, P.Eng, is a Professor, the Norman W. McLeod Professor in Sustainable Pavement Engineering and the Canada Research Chair in Pavement and Infrastructure Management at the University of Waterloo. She is also a principal founder and the Director of the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT), where she still manages the central CPATT Pavement Laboratory, CPATT Test Track and over 50 satellite test sections across Canada. Dr. Tighe is very active professionally in Canada and internationally and has over 300 technical publications to her credit. She has over 18 years of experience and is a licensed professional engineer in the province of Ontario. Her accomplishments have been recognized by various awards, including the highly prestigious Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2006 and Professional Engineers of Ontario Young Engineer Medal in 2004.

She was the Past Chair of the International Steering Committee for the International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA7) and continued in that role for ICMPA8 in 2011 in Santiago, Chile. She is Past Chair of TAC's Soils and Materials Standing Committee and the TAC Foundation Scholarship Committee. She is also a member of the Pavements Standing Committee. Dr. Tighe has also worked for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, for Pioneer Road Services in Australia, held an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and in July 2010 held a United Kingdom Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, in Nottingham, England. She is a recognized national and international expert in Pavement Design and Management and she is currently the project manager on the new 2011 TAC Pavement Asset Design and Management Guide.