Rula's Research Resources

Rula's Research Resources

Civil Engineering Professor Isaac Howard and graduate student Jessica Lewis take note of asphalt research samples in Rula's materials storage room, which houses thousands of asphalt specimens of various ages.
Photo by Megan Bean

January 24, 2023

Isaac Howard, Mississippi 性视界传媒 professor and Richard A. Rula School of Civil and Environmental Engineering director, and Jessica Lewis, a civil engineering graduate student from New Orleans, Louisiana, compare asphalt samples in the Rula Engineering and Science Complex. For more than a decade, Howard has researched how asphalt ages and how recycling a variety of materials into asphalt affects its long-term durability in the Southeast鈥檚 hot, wet climate. Opened in 2021, the Rula Engineering and Science Complex's聽comprehensive materials storage room contains thousands of asphalt specimens of various ages and large quantities of raw ingredients.