Dan Cook, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oklahoma State University
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oklahoma State University
B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oklahoma State University
A.S., Mathematics
Tulsa Community College
A.A., Secondary Education
Tulsa Community College
Dr. Cook has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of construction, concrete,
cement, and research & development. Dr. Cook is an Assistant Professor in the Construction
Engineering Technology program within the Division of Technology at Oklahoma State
University. He has taught Concrete Technology CET 2343, Introduction to Construction
CET 1213, Technology in Construction CET 4273, and Equipment Management CET 4333.
Also, Dr. Cook is the Director of the Center for Transportation and Construction Workforce, which houses the HCMT Program (ODOT training center), LTAP, TTAP, and Pilot Escort Programs. As an instructor in the Center, Dr. Cook teaches inspection courses such as concrete pavement inspection and also materials testing courses including concrete and aggregates.
Dr. Cook grew up working for his family-owned concrete construction company starting as a labor and working through the positions of finisher, foreman, and estimator. Dr. Cook has a vast experience of building concrete structures from floor slabs using post-tension cabling, parking lots with minimal elevation for drainage, city streets, private dams, small bridges, retaining walls, residential house slabs and driveways, decorative concrete, and concrete repair.
Upon completing his doctorate in Civil Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Cook worked as a technical service engineer for an international cement supplier. Dr. Cook provided technical support for both customers and internal personnel on variety of topics related to cement, slag cement, concrete, masonry, and oil-well. Some of these tasks included communicating material specifications, generating concrete submittals, submitting slag and cement submittals, designing mixes for concrete, conducting quality audits, and troubleshooting hardened and fresh concrete and masonry. Also, Dr. Cook has designed mixtures for a wide-spread of applications such as high strength concrete, slip formed paving concrete, typical slab-on-grade concrete, pumpable concrete, self-consolidating concrete, flowable fill, grout, and even a few mass pour mixtures.
Dr. Cook is involved as a national member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Dr. Cook serves as a committee member of ACI 211 Proportioning of Concrete Mixtures, ACI 302 Construction of Floor Slabs, Educational Activities Commitee (EAC), and chair of ACI 309 Consolidation of Concrete. Previously, Dr. Cook has been a main voting member of ASTM 04.02 Concrete & Aggregate.
Also, Dr. Cook is the Director of the Center for Transportation and Construction Workforce, which houses the HCMT Program (ODOT training center), LTAP, TTAP, and Pilot Escort Programs. As an instructor in the Center, Dr. Cook teaches inspection courses such as concrete pavement inspection and also materials testing courses including concrete and aggregates.
Dr. Cook grew up working for his family-owned concrete construction company starting as a labor and working through the positions of finisher, foreman, and estimator. Dr. Cook has a vast experience of building concrete structures from floor slabs using post-tension cabling, parking lots with minimal elevation for drainage, city streets, private dams, small bridges, retaining walls, residential house slabs and driveways, decorative concrete, and concrete repair.
Upon completing his doctorate in Civil Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Cook worked as a technical service engineer for an international cement supplier. Dr. Cook provided technical support for both customers and internal personnel on variety of topics related to cement, slag cement, concrete, masonry, and oil-well. Some of these tasks included communicating material specifications, generating concrete submittals, submitting slag and cement submittals, designing mixes for concrete, conducting quality audits, and troubleshooting hardened and fresh concrete and masonry. Also, Dr. Cook has designed mixtures for a wide-spread of applications such as high strength concrete, slip formed paving concrete, typical slab-on-grade concrete, pumpable concrete, self-consolidating concrete, flowable fill, grout, and even a few mass pour mixtures.
Dr. Cook is involved as a national member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Dr. Cook serves as a committee member of ACI 211 Proportioning of Concrete Mixtures, ACI 302 Construction of Floor Slabs, Educational Activities Commitee (EAC), and chair of ACI 309 Consolidation of Concrete. Previously, Dr. Cook has been a main voting member of ASTM 04.02 Concrete & Aggregate.
Research Interests:
Concrete construction practices, construction education, workforce devlopement, construction
materials, oil well cement