Robert Parsons

Director of Construction for the School of Engineering Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering University of Kansas
Dr. Parsons is a professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Kansas, where he has been since 1998. In addition to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Dr. Parsons has an active research program with emphases on soil stabilization, aggregate testing, deep foundations, mechanically-stabilized earth, and railroad ballast characterization and improvement. He is an author of dozens of publications for many research journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. He is the current chair of the Committee on Cementitious Stabilization for the Transportation Research Board (a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine). Dr. Parsons has also served as director of construction for the School of Engineering at KU since 2014, where he represented the School on 80 million dollars of new construction that included two new buildings and renovation of the Engineering Library, in addition to ongoing renovation activities.