Faculty Profile for Dr. Feng Hong

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Feng Hong received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering with a Transportation focus from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He joined the Civil Engineering program at Texas State University (TXST) in 2022. Before joining TXST, he worked at Texas Department of Transportation for 15 years. He received multiple academic and service awards from graduate study through his professional career. He is a licensed engineer in the State of Texas.

Teaching Interests

Feng Hong not only helps students learn fundamental knowledge in Civil Engineering but also cultivates them to develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills and strategies. In particular, as a professor specializing engineering, the connection and integration between theory and practice plays a central role in his teaching philosophy. He has plenty of practice experience and incorporates numerous engineering case studies in the classes. This can not only provide the students with real-world project insights but also enhance the students interests in engineering work, which can better prepare them for the upcoming career.

Research Interests

Feng Hong's technical work covers the following interdependent four aspects:
Transportation infrastructure management: integrated management information system, deterioration modeling, life-cycle analysis, optimal management policy, asset management planning.
Pavement design and analysis: empirical design approach, mechanistic-empirical design approach, rehabilitation design, reliability-based design.
Technology-enhanced infrastructure testing and evaluation: non-destructive testing, automatic data collection, structural and functional performance monitoring, and evaluation.
Roadway materials: performance-based hot-mix asphalt testing/evaluation/design, recycled asphalt pavement material, in-field material performance, sustainability evaluation.
He has conducted numerous researches himself as well involved studies with the universities in Texas and research institutes and industries nationwide.