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Dr. Paul Cosentino is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Florida Tech. Dr. Cosentino has a unique combination of industrial and academic experience, which lends real-world knowledge to his classroom teaching. He has been the Principal Invesitgator on well over $3 million of research on numerous projects in multidisciplinary areas. These areas include fiber optic sensors for geotechnical and traffic classification and vehicle weight, sustainability in highways involving re-use of waste materials such as waste-to-energy ash, waste tires, reclaimed asphalt pavement and classical geotechnical research with Pressuremeter instrumentation and pile driving in soils that produce excessive pile rebound. He has worked on numerous geotechnical and geo-environmental consulting projects; reviewed papers and proposals for national research organizations and is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida. He is a member of the ASCE Airfield Pavements Committee and the Transportation Research Board's University Representative. He has served as a lecturer for short courses on Landfill Design, and Pavement Design plus Shallow and Deep foundations.