Expertise

Subject areas:

  • Pavements and Materials

Research Interests:

  • Sustainable Design
  • Pavement Materials
  • Infrastructure Resilience
  • Integration of Reclaimed Materials into Pavement
  • Cold Recycling

Keywords:

  • Pavement Engineering
  • Cold Recycling
  • Sustainability
  • Pavement Materials
  • Resilience.

Bowers' research is focused predominantly on asphalt materials and pavement geotechnics, with special attention paid to sustainable, resilient, and cost effective techniques.

Bowers is also an expert on resilient infrastructure, working on numerous projects centered around how to adapt infrastructure assets to combat climate-related disruptions.

Bowers has expertise in cold recycling and full depth reclamation, the art of using 100% recycled pavement materials.

Degrees
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Civil Engineering, 2013
M.S., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Civil Engineering, 2010
B.S., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2009