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SWUTC Director,
Senior Research Scientist
(Retired)
“As director of the Southwest Region University Transportation Center [SWUTC] for 25 years, it was my privilege to help advance the mission of the UTC Program,” says Senior Research Scientist Dock Burke, now retired from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). “We mentored more than 1,300 college students and reached some 14,000 K–12 students with our outreach programs, and that was just with SWUTC — only one of the eight UTCs TTI has been a part of. Without the UTC Program, the transportation profession’s bench of expertise would be far poorer in its depth and breadth.”
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1988
First year of UTC grants awarded, including TTI for SWUTC
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3
TTI-led UTCs
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5
TTI-partnered UTCs (where another university led the center)
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340
TTI-conducted UTC research projects
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$63.4 M
research dollars awarded to TTI through the UTC Program