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Information For Prospective Students

Transportation Matters

One of our most important jobs at the Texas Transportation Institute is to inspire careers in transportation and to help students acquire the skills and training necessary to succeed in that career. TTI supports Texas A&M University (and other universities in the urban offices) undergraduate and graduate students in order to, as our mission statement says, help develop diverse human resources to meet the transportation challenges of tomorrow.

TTI can help position you as a leader in your field. We are the largest and most prominent university-affiliated transportation research agency in the country.

Take a Look at our Numbers

  • 200—The average number of students TTI employs each semester
  • 1/3—Students comprise about a third of TTI's workforce
  • 4,000—The number of individuals who have worked for TTI and/or have a degree from Texas A&M University that are now practicing transportation professionals
  • 47—The number of states TAMU graduates are employed, plus the District of Columbia and 18 foreign countries

We Value Diversity

TTI also has regional research divisions at nine other universities in Texas, including historically black universities and Hispanic-serving institutions. The TTI research programs at these universities and the linkage with the undergraduate and graduate programs at Texas A&M University work together to increase both the number and quality of students in transportation engineering.

Education, Engineering, & Excellence

Texas A&M University has an outstanding transportation engineering academic program and TTI's support is an important element of the program. Students who could choose to major in almost any field at any university are choosing to pursue a civil engineering degree in transportation engineering at Texas A&M University.

The research program is instrumental in improving the quality of students in the transportation engineering graduate program. Since 1988, TTI has managed the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC), a federally designated partnership of TTI, Texas A&M University, The University of Texas at Austin and Texas Southern University. Because half of the TTI money coming from SWUTC is dedicated to academic programs, the center has helped to improve the curriculum and increase graduate student salaries—both of which allowed Texas A&M University and TTI to recruit better students

Plan the highways, byways, and skyways of tomorrow

If your educational or career path lead you toward any aspect of transportation, from engineering to construction, safety to structures, or air quality to the environment, we want to hear from you.

For More Information

For more information about the Texas A&M University transportation engineering academic program, see: www.civil.tamu.edu.

or contact:

Dr. Gene Hawkins
Undergraduate Transportation Engineering Advisor
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University
3136 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3136
ph. (979) 845-9946 · fax (979) 845-6481
gene-h@tamu.edu
or
Dr. Mark Burris
Graduate Transportation Engineering Advisor
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University
3136 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-3136
ph. (979) 845-9875 · fax (979) 845-6481
mburris@civil.tamu.edu

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