Sue McNeil, Ph.D., P.E., is the director of the University Transportation Center and the Disaster Research Center, and also is professor of civil and environmental engineering and urban affairs and public policy at the University of Delaware.

Her research and teaching interests focus on transportation infrastructure management with an emphasis on the application of advanced technologies, economic analysis, analytical methods, and computer applications.

McNeil has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment. She chairs the TRB Committee on Asset Management. From 1988 to 1993 she was chair of the ASCE Urban Transportation Division Committee on Transportation Facilities Management and is a founding associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems.

McNeil was a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and engineering and public policy, at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned her doctorate. She then moved on to the University of Illinois at Chicago where she served as director of the Urban Transportation Center and was a professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering.