Carolyn W. Carlson, P. E., has been selected as the 2014 Vermont Engineer of the Year. Ms. Carlson is Senior Structures Project Manager for the Vermont Agency of Transportation, where she has been employed since 1985. She currently manages twenty-two projects and a staff of fifteen engineers and technicians. Ms. Carlson managed the historic Richmond Checkered House Bridge widening project, a first-in-the-nation restoration project, which pushed the limits of truss bridge restoration design and has received accolades from various engineering publications and the Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers. She has designed and managed over 100 new and rehabilitated bridge projects throughout Vermont.
Ms. Carlson has served on the board of directors of the Vermont Society of Engineers for the past eleven years, is currently the treasurer, and is a past-president of the organization. She is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and has served as a president and board member of the Vermont chapter.
Ms. Carlson was selected as the 1996 Vermont Young Engineer of the Year, the first woman to receive this distinction. Ms. Carlson received her B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Vermont in 1985, where she was a member of the Chi Epsilon civil engineering honor society, and she received her M.B.A. from UVM in 1992.