Dr. Ralph Wurbs
Associate Director
Phone: (979) 845-1851
Email: rawurbs@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Ralph Wurbs, a professor in Texas A&M University's Zachry Civil Engineering Department, joined the Texas Water Resources Institute as a part-time associate director in August 2007.
Bringing an engineering perspective to the institute, Wurbs assists TWRI Director Allan Jones and Associate Director Bill Harris in working with funding agencies, research beneficiaries, university researchers and administrators. His responsibilities focus on facilitating connections between research sponsors and Texas Engineering Experiment Station researchers and helping coordinate water-related initiatives and endeavors across the TAMU System.
Wurbs is the developer of the Water Rights Analysis Package, or WRAP, a set of computer software programs that simulates management of water resources of a river basin under a priority-based water allocation system. WRAP is incorporated in the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Water Availability Modeling System.
Wurbs joined the Civil Engineering faculty in 1980 and served as division head for the Department's Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division from 1999 to 2007. He received his doctorate in civil engineering in the water resources systems engineering program from Colorado State University, his master's degree in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and his bachelors in civil engineering from Texas A&M University.