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Robert “Bob” Watson was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in McAlester, Oklahoma. In elementary school, Watson was diagnosed with a written expression learning disability. Also in elementary school he started to develop a love for civil...
Watson, Bob
Robert “Bob” Watson was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in McAlester, Oklahoma. In elementary school, Watson was diagnosed with a written expression learning disability. Also in elementary school he started to develop a love for civil engineering due to his family history and meeting with the father of one of his friends who was a city manager.
During his last two years of High School he moved to Texas and attended Pine Tree High School in Longview, TX. After graduating in 1997, Watson briefly attended Kilgore Junior College before transferring to his parents’ alma mater, the University of Texas at Arlington, in 1998.
Watson graduated from UTA in 2003 with a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering. After working for a few years at FBE Construction Ltd. Watson got a job with the City of Arlington water utilities department. There he took advantage of a program that would help him pursue a Masters in Public Administration.
Watson now works as a City Project Engineer for the City of Arlington. He is responsible for managing numerous capital projects such as building and maintaining streets.
He also served on the UTA Presidential Search Committee in 2012 and works with the Boy Scouts of America.