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THE TSU CoETCS 'MIGHTY 100' PROFILE OF EXCELLENCE Harry W. Taylor
He graduated in 1965 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering, received a Master of Science in Engineering Administration from George Washington University. He is a member of the TSU Alumni Association and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He is married. Graduation from the CoETCS prepared me by providing extensive knowledge in theory and practice of Civil Engineering. After I graduated I realize I was better prepared than many of my colleagues in the workforce.
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Mr. Harry W. Taylor of Taylor Consulting is recently retired from the Federal Highway Administration where he served as the Team Leader, Road Departure Safety for the Office of Safety. He led a team that aimed to reduce the twenty nine thousand fatalities a year caused by leaving the driving lane by providing highway engineering safety expert advice, developing programs and practices, and accepting individual traffic barriers for use on the U.S. roads and streets and other countries that use U.S. traffic barrier technology. He led in developing countermeasures through research and integrating these countermeasures into commonly used practices. He has written numerous papers and articles about roadside safety, made presentations on the need to integrate Computational Mechanics into roadside safety decision-making, served on numerous national research panels, served as the U.S. technical negotiator for trade negotiations for roadside safety equipment with the European Union, served as the U.S. observer to the European Union to assist the Europeans in developing crash test procedures for traffic barriers for Europe, served as the U.S. liaison to Computational Mechanics-Europe.
