How to save your asphalt—and save money

Identify fixes for asphalt problems that will extend the life of your pavement while extending your budget. Enroll now in this practical, respected course to find cost-effective solutions to your asphalt pavement repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation problems.

Ensure high-quality pavement

Put proven preventive maintenance and rehabilitation techniques to work, including crack sealing, patching, asphalt surface treatments, in-place recycling, and overlays.

• Public works employees, including street maintenance supervisors, construction inspectors, highway engineering supervisors, civil engineers, engineering technicians, and crew leaders 
• Consultants and contractors involved in pavement maintenance and rehabilitation projects 
• Facility maintenance managers and building and grounds supervisors responsible for the maintenance of parking lots and roadways 
• Others who manage maintenance budgets, determine pavement repair or rehabilitation techniques, or implement pavement maintenance programs

Online Course Schedule 2026:

Live Session 1 Asphalt Pavement Performance

Live Session 2 Pavement Evaluation and Patching

Live Session 3 Solving Asphalt Pavement Construction Problems

Live Session 4 In-Place Asphalt Pavement Recycling and Rehabilitation

Live Session 5 Crack Sealing & Asphalt Surface Treatments

Live Session 6 Parking Lot Specific Pavement Issues and Asphalt Pavement Asset Management Examples

In-person Course Outline:

Asphalt Pavement Performance

• How to select asphalt and aggregate for effective performance
• Factors affecting pavement thickness design
• Recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) and reclaimed asphalt shingles (RAS)
• Special mixes: stone matrix asphalt (SMA), open-graded friction course (OGFC), warm mix asphalt
• Porous asphalt pavement

Pavement Condition Evaluation

• Identify pavement distresses and causes of distresses
• Relate pavement distress types and distress types and distress severity to cost-effective repair strategies
• Implement a simple pavement rating and evaluation system

In-Place Asphalt Pavement Recycling and Rehabilitation

• Learn effective techniques for cold in-place recycling, hot in-place recycling, full-depth reclamation

Asphalt Patching Done Right

• Understand temporary and permanent patching techniques
• Select cost effective patching materials
• Evaluate patching equipment options
• Patching trench excavations

Cracksealing

• Cost-effective of crack sealing
• Implement best practices
• Properly and safely use equipment
• Select materials for your pavement conditions and environment

Asphalt Surface Treatments

• Learn about materials and methods for fog seal, slurry seal, micro- surfacing, chip seal, and scrub seal
• Use chip seal materials and equipment effectively
• Implement quality, cost-effective chip seal procedures
• Select surface treatments for low- volume roads, parking lots, and recreational facilities

Solving Asphalt Pavement Construction Problems

• Perform proper surface preparation
• Change paving procedures to minimize mix segregation
• Improve pavement joint construction
• Improve compaction
• Quality control of asphalt mixes

Parking Lot Specific Pavement Issues

• Common Parking Lot Pavement Problems
• Approaches to Parking Lot Pavement Maintenance

Asphalt Pavement Asset Management Examples

• Establishing a program to manage your pavement assets
• Use condition evaluation to select treatments
• Develop a maintenance and rehabilitation plan
• Street an Parking Facility Examples

Asphalt Pavement Asset Management Examples

• Street and parking facility examples

"UW does an excellent job with these courses. They always have knowledgeable people from the field."
—Mike Joosten, Engineering Senior Technician, City of DePere, Wisconsin

"A lot of questions I've had for years—I've finally been able to talk to people who can answer them."
—Manny Ghiselline, City of Wilsonville, California

Andrew Braham

“Dr. Andrew Braham graduated from the University of Wisconsin with his B.S. and M.S., and from the University of Illinois with his Ph.D.    He worked with Koch Materials Company for two and a half years, and performed a post-doc at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.  He is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas, where his teaching and research focus is on flexible pavement materials, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, and sustainability.  He is the chair of TRB committee AKT30 (Pavement Maintenance), is an associate director of the Southern Plains Transportation Center, and is the developer of the Pavinar webinar series.  You can find out more about Dr. Braham at www.andrewbraham.com”

Michael Groh

Michael L. Groh is the Pavement Consultant Lead at Ruekert & Mielke, Inc., Waukesha, Wisconsin. He has been involved in the paving industry for over 40 years with experience as a contractor, material supplier, and, in the most recent twenty plus years, consulting. He focuses on pavement condition evaluation and asset life extension using innovative pavement design, maintenance, and construction techniques.

Benjamin Jordan

Timothy Murphy

Timothy R. Murphy, PE is president of Murphy Pavement Technology, Chicago, Illinois. He is involved in asphalt pavement teaching, training and troubleshooting nationwide. Murphy works on pavement management, mix design, quality control, construction practices, and failure investigation for government agencies, contractors and consultants and facility owners.

Kevin Wagner

Kevin J. Wagner, P.E., is a Project Manager and leads the Green Bay office for Ruekert & Mielke, Inc.  He specializes in civil engineering including roadway and storm water design and planning. He develops capital plans to help clients budget and maximize the life of their pavements.  Worked on implements asset management technologies for municipalities.