Dr. Mandar Khanal joined the Department of Civil Engineering in August, 1997. Dr. Khanal earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his MS degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is a registered civil engineer in California and Idaho. Prior to coming to BSU, Dr. Khanal was employed as a Research Associate at Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.;

Dr. Khanal has many years of professional engineering experience. One such assignment was at the California Department of Transportation in Orange County, California, where he was involved in two field deployment projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration. He served as the Chair of the Technical Review Team for the Mobile Video Surveillance & Communication Project.;

Dr. Khanal is responsible for the Transportation Engineering Program at BSU and continues to develop new courses in this area. He is also involved in various research projects funded primarily by the Idaho Transportation Department. ;

• Journal Papers:
• "Safety on Indian Roads", accepted for publication in the special issue of Highways of the Indian Roads Congress. To be published in summer 2012.
• "Personalized Rapid Transit Systems - An Approach Towards Solving Urban Tranport Problems: A Case Study in Gurgaon City, Haryana", accepted for publication in the Research Journal of the Indian Road Congress.
• Conference Papers:
• "Defining and Quantifying Rural Congestion", paper presented at the 2011 National Rural Intelligent Transport Systems Conference in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 31 August 2011.
• “The Evolution of Program Outcome Assessment: The Civil Engineering Program Experience at Boise State University”. Paper presented at the April 16, 2010 ABET Symposium (formerly “Best Assessment Processes Symposium”) held at Las Vegas, Nevada.

• On-going:
• Co-Principal Investigator: "Development of an Intelligent Transportation Systems Toolkit for Traffic Management in India". Project awarded to the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India by the Institute of Urban Transport (India), New Delhi, India.
• Completed:
• Principal Investigator: "Defining and Quantifying Rural Congestion". The Idaho Transportatin Department, Boise, Idaho.
• Principal Investigator: "Remote Road Surface State & Temperature Sensor Testing". The Idaho Transportation Department, Boise, Idaho.
• Principal Investigator: "Synthesis of Research on Work Zone Delays and Simplified Application of Quickzone Analysis Tool". The University of Idaho. Principal Investigator: "Development of a Software Tool for Illumination Design". Agreement # : SPR–0010(026), Research Project 131, FC # 5511. The Idaho Transportation Department.
• Principal Investigator: "Evaluation of the Ada County Highway District FY1999 ITS Deployment Project". The National Institute of Advanced Transportation Technologies, University of Idaho.
• Principal Investigator: "Freeway Incident Phase II". Subcontract No.: KLK463-02-A. The National Institute of Advanced Transportation Technologies, University of Idaho.
• Principal Investigator: "Development of a Roadway Name Table for the ITD, MACS System”. Agreement #01-189, Research Project 159, FC # 01-189. The Idaho Transportation Department.
• Principal Investigator: "Freeway Incident Detection and Arterial Systems Management for the I-84 Corridor". The National Institute of Advanced Transportation Technologies, University of Idaho.
• Principal Investigator: "Evaluating the Use of GPS Technology to Update the Idaho Transportation Department GIS”. Agreement : SPR – 0010(120), Research Project 144, FC # 99-113. The Idaho Transportation Department.
• Principal Investigator of research project: “Evaluation of Potential Earthwork Savings in Road Design Using ROADZ”. Agreement : SPR – 0010(120), Research Project 143. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University.