Makarand (Mark) Hastak, PhD, PE, MS(Law), CCP, CRIS, FASCE, NAC

Biography

Hastak holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue (1994), an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (1991), a BE in Civil Engineering from Nagpur University, India (1987), and an MS in Law (MSL) from Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, earned in 2024. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Indiana, a Certified Cost Professional (CCP, AACE International, since 1996), a Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS, 2019), a Fellow of ASCE (elected 2024), and a member of the National Academy of Construction (elected 2023). He is the Reilly Professor at Purdue's Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, and served as Dernlan Family Head of Construction Engineering and Management from 2007 to 2024. Effective July 1, 2024, his Division of Construction Engineering and Management merged into the existing Lyles School of Civil Engineering, which was then renamed the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering. His work spans process improvement, disaster risk reduction, infrastructure management, cost control, and project management. He is an author of an infrastructure-management text published by McGraw-Hill (editions in 2006 and 2015). He was President of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) from 2022 to 2025, and Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering from 2009 to 2016. Since 1992 he has served on eight Construction Industry Institute research teams and various committees, and he served on AACE's Education Board (2004–2016).

Credentials & Certifications

• PhD
• PE
• CCP
• MS(Law)

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