Mutasem Alzoubaidi, Ph.D., P.E.

Prior to joining Gonzaga, Dr. Mutasem Alzoubaidi, P.E. served as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Al-Balqa Applied University, a Traffic Project Engineer at HNTB Corporation, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Transportation Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He has more than 11 years of academic and professional experience in transportation engineering. His research interests include traffic operations and control, traffic safety, traffic modeling and simulation, complete streets, highway geometric design, intelligent transportation systems, and connected and automated vehicles. Dr. Alzoubaidi has played a leading research role in projects with a total budget exceeding $10 million. Through his research, he has developed new interchange designs, guided undergraduate and graduate student research projects, and published extensively in leading transportation engineering journals and conferences. He remains an active reviewer and a frequent presenter at national and international professional meetings.

In professional practice, Dr. Alzoubaidi has delivered traffic engineering projects exceeding one billion dollars in total value. Among his portfolio of projects is the Kansas Department of Transportation’s K-10 Corridor Capacity Improvement and Toll Feasibility Study, where he served as a Traffic Project Engineer. In this role, he led the comprehensive operational and safety analyses of existing conditions and the development of improvement concepts for a 25-mile corridor and an associated network of nearly 300 miles of interconnected interstates and arterials, estimated at more than $800 million in construction value.