Melissa Hish Email & Phone Number

After seven years of experience managing transportation engineering projects at the local and national level, I took on a role overseeing operations at Wells + Associates. W+A provides sustainable transportation engineering and planning services to public and private sector clients and empowers people by improving access and mobility.In the civil engineering field there are numerous specialties available to a young engineer beginning her career. Improving infrastructure - making things work more efficiently at the most basic level - was always important to me, but transportation was one of the few concentrations where I had to consider the human factor. Hydraulics, structures, materials, while all interesting, did not incorporate the dynamics of the human person, so they seemed a bit flat to me. There is a beauty to transportation when it works well.I am committed to the advancement of women in STEM fields and participate in STEM-related programs to encourage students at the high school level.

Listed skills include Land Development, Transportation Planning, Transportation Engineering, Parking, and 6 others.

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  Virginia Tech

  Civil Engineering