Dr. Marcus Knight

Dr. Marcus Knight, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Concrete Industry Management
615-494-8669
mlknight@mtsu.edu

Dr. Marcus Knight joined the MTSU Concrete Industry Management Faculty in the Fall semeser of 2005. Marcus received his B.S. degree in 1995 and a Master of Science degree in 1998, both in Civil Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. In May, 2007 Dr. Knight was awarded his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt University. His dissertation was titled "Quantitative Framework  Dissertation highlights included the subjective nature of bridge inspection and imporving quantification of actual conditions during the assessment process. Also, a statistical methodology was developed to stratify the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) into groups of similar structures from each group and gathering data for extrapolation across the remaining structures from the respective groups.

Dr. Knight lives in Murfreesboro with his wife, Shelia and their daughter, Lydia.