Ali Hekmatfar, Ayesha Shah, Rebecca McDaniel, Gerald Huber and John E. Haddock received the 2016 Emmons Award for best paper presented, while Leila Sadeghi received the best student poster award at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists. The award was presented at the banquet during the 2016 meeting in Indianapolis on March 15th.

The paper, "Optimizing Laboratory Mixture Design to Improve Field Compaction" by Ali Hekmatfar, Ayesha Shah, Rebecca McDaniel, Gerald Huber and John E. Haddock, has been printed in Asphalt Paving Technology 2015: Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Volume 84.  The Emmons Award has been given since 1949.

CE graduate student Leila Sadeghi also received the award for the best student poster presented at the 2016 meeting.