Phillip S. Dunston
Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering and Dean's Faculty Fellow for HBCU Engagement
Purdue University
Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering
550 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
Office: HAMP 1243
Phone: (765) 494-0640
Email:
dunston@purdue.edu
Web:
personal web site
Specialty Area(s)
Education
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1994
M.S.C.E., North Carolina State University, 1992
B.S.C.E., North Carolina State University, 1988
Research Summary
Virtual & Mixed Reality Applications for Construction Training, Planning, and Field Activities; Highway Construction Methods; Constructability; Field Sensing for Construction Equipment Operations; Real-Time Control for Construction Operations; Human-Machine Collaboration
Selected Research Projects
Honors & Awards National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2003-2008. Best Technical (Paper) Award for "Virtual Visualization for the Mechanical Trade," 17th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), Taipei, Taiwan, September 18-20, 2000, co-authors Mark Billinghurst (Ph.D. candidate Electrical Engineering), Yihong Luo (Masters student in Electrical Engineering), and Ben Hampson (Piping Detailer/Applications Developer for the McKinstry Company, Seattle, WA). University of Washington Presidential Faculty Development Fellowship, 1999-2000. First recipient of the Washington NASA Space Grant's Faculty Award, 1995-1996. ACI Construction Practice Award, awarded by the American Concrete Institute, for the article entitled, "Formwork Pressures on Tall Wall with Extended Set Concrete," published in Concrete International (Vol. 16, No. 11), co-authors David W. Johnston and Paul P. McCain, awarded March 1996.
Selected Publications