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 Richard
Skopik, P.E., is the district engineer for the
Waco District of the Texas
Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The district comprises eight counties:
Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Limestone and McLennan.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University
in 1978 and joined TxDOT’s Tyler District as an engineering assistant in the
Athens Area Office that same year. In 1982, he moved to the design section in
the Tyler District office. He received certification as a professional engineer
in 1983 and was advanced to the position of district design engineer in 1986.
Skopik was promoted, in 1993, to deputy district engineer in the Tyler District
and assisted in managing transportation-related projects and activities on a
highway system of more than 3,000 centerline miles.
In 1998 he was selected as Waco District Engineer where he has been key in the
development and implementation of the district’s I-35 Expansion Plan (valued at
more than $1 billion), which is critical to meeting the transportation needs of
the traveling public along this 94-mile Central Texas corridor. Also, the
district has piloted one of the department’s two total-maintenance concept
studies using a contract company to maintain district facilities on the
interstate highway.
Skopik serves as a policy board member for the Killeen-Temple area and the Waco
area, working to resolve transportation issues within the two urbanized areas.
He also serves on various statewide management committees in the areas of
highway-construction specifications, transportation planning research, and
employee training and career development.
He lives in his hometown of Waco, enjoys traveling and exploring his Czech
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