Articles

Main Speaker - January 2017

Topic: TxDOT's New Approach to the Unified Transportation Program (UTP) - Dallas District Perspective 

 Mohamed 'Mo' K. Bur, P.E.
Director of Transportation Planning and Development
Texas Department of Transportation

Mohamed ‘Mo’ K. Bur has been the director of Transportation Planning and Development for the Dallas district of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) since October 1, 2014. The district is responsible for seven counties – Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Navarro and Rockwall.

Bur’s TxDOT career began in the San Angelo Area Office in 1997. In San Angelo, he worked on the design of the new location of the Houston Harte Freeway and later served on its construction management team.

In 2002, he received his professional engineer’s license and transferred to the Dallas District Roadway Design section where he worked on the design of US 380 in Denton, the State Highway (SH) 161/SH 183 interchange in Irving and as the project manager for SH 161 in Grand Prairie, the Margaret Hunt Hill and Margaret McDermott bridges, the Woodall Rodgers Extension and Project Pegasus.

In 2011, he joined the Project Delivery Office (PDO) as supervisor. In this role, he was responsible for the district’s consultant management, contracts, funding and programming, district review, P6 scheduling controls, hydraulic section, right of way mapping and survey sections. He also led the management of Project Pegasus and the Horseshoe project through the preliminary engineering, schematic, environmental and the initial US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Section 408 permit phases. In 2013, he managed the Professional Engineering Procurement Services (PEPS) Division Central Service Center. In this role, he serviced the engineering procurement needs of 19 non-metro districts and 14 divisions.

Bur, a 1996 graduate of the University of Maryland, holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree with an emphasis on transportation and hydraulics. He enjoys traveling, skiing, watching college basketball and football games and tailgating at college games. He is the lucky husband of Savannah Rose and the proud father of Parker Rose and Noah Wesley.