After receiving a Sul Ross Scholarship and the Wright Galloway Asphalt Scholarship, Timothy J. Martin ’92 decided to pursue his engineering degree at Texas A&M. He was a part of the Corps of Cadets and the Aggie Band and said the years he spent with these groups shaped his Aggie experience.
Martin was encouraged by Dr. Roger Smith to pursue a master’s degree and provided him with the financial means through an assistantship. Martin said without his master’s degree he wouldn’t have had the same opportunities to succeed post-graduation, including serving as the principal investigator for the Federal Highway Administration’s Long-Term Pavement Performance Program for the southern region.
Martin is currently president and owner of 2TM Consulting Engineers in Austin, Texas, where he provides pavement engineering consultancy to government agencies and contractors. He also has conducted forensics engineering on over $600 million in claims. Based on this experience, Martin has presented at American Society of Civil Engineers conferences on topics ranging from pavement performance to forensics engineering to highlight and advance needed improvements to engineering standards and specifications. He also serves on technical panels for current pavement research and standing committees at the American Concrete Institute.
For Capt. Mike Monreal ‘91, Aggieland has always felt like home. It’s where he joined the Corps of Cadets, made lifelong friendships, met his wife and where he was inspired to serve in the military.
Texas A&M offered the values and traditions that inspired him to grow into a man, a leader and set him on course for a successful career.
During his 28-year Marine Corps and Navy career, Monreal commanded a Navy Seabee battalion and Field Engineering Command and held shore duty tours in Europe, the Pacific and the continental United States. His operational tours consisted of combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and the South Pacific.
Monreal is a vice president and regional area manager for The Broaddus Companies. He has been a longtime mentor to several young engineers and engineering college students and served as Aggie Club president and Aggie Muster chair for various Aggie Clubs worldwide.
He has been recognized with the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal and numerous other awards. He is a registered professional civil engineer, acquisition professional, Seabee combat warfare specialist and a fellow in the Society of American Military Engineers.
Monreal lives in Floresville, Texas, with his wife Stephanie ‘91. The couple has four daughters, Jessica and son-in-law, Justin; Melissa ‘15 and son-in-law Joshua Leal ‘15; Victoria ‘20; Rebecca and son-in-law Nick March ‘19; and three grandsons.
Matt Sebesta ‘84
Matt Sebesta ’84 is a lifelong resident of Brazoria County. After graduation from Texas A&M, he became a licensed professional engineer and a registered professional land surveyor.
In 1989, Sebesta was hired by Ralph B. Hendricks ’61 after a 10-minute phone conversation and worked for him until Hendricks retired in 1997. Sebesta called Hendricks an Aggie’s Aggie. Even later in life, when Sebesta started consulting and became a competitor to Hendricks’ firm, Hendricks still mentored him even though they competed for business.
In 1994, Sebesta was selected as the Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year by the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Now, he owns his own company, Sebesta Engineering LLC in Angleton, providing structural design and inspections for windstorm certifications along the entire Texas Gulf Coast.
In 1990, Sebesta began a life of public service when he was appointed to the Planning and Zoning Commission for Angleton. He is now in his 29th year of elected office, currently serving his second term as county judge after serving as an Angleton city councilman, mayor and county commissioner.
Sebesta is also chairman of the Lower Brazos River Coalition and serves as chairman for the Conference of Urban Counties, representing approximately 80% of Texas residents. Since 2008, he has chaired the Mike Ogden Memorial Golf Tournament, raising more than $600,000 to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Sebesta and his wife Monica have been married for 35 years and have two sons, Joshua ’12 and Ryan ’16.