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 Rick Collins, P.E., is the director of the
Research and Technology
Implementation Office of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). In
this capacity, he oversees and directs the development and operation of the
Department’s research, technology implementation, and new product evaluation
programs. He became director in January 2004.
He began his career with TxDOT as an engineering assistant in the Design
Division.
He worked for a private engineering firm in Austin from
1985 to 1987. In 1987, he returned to the Department where he became the safety
and programs engineer in the Traffic Operations Division. Collins served as the
railroad liaison engineer from 1995 to 1997 and as the director of the Traffic
Engineering Section from 1997 to 2004.
Collins represents TxDOT as a member of the American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Research
Advisory Committee and the state representative to the Transportation Research
Board. He is also a member of the AASHTO Standing Committee on Research and
serves on numerous National Cooperative Highway Research Program project panels.
Collins earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
in 1981 from Texas A&M University and his master’s degree in engineering from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. |
