Port Authority Engineer Named New Face of Civil Engineering(2)

Reston, Va. – The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) announced today that 25-year-old Rumana Haque of New York City has been named a New Face of Civil Engineering. Rumana is a traffic engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.  An integral part of ASCE’s 2011 National Engineers’ Week (Feb. 20-26) initiatives, the New Faces program promotes the achievements of young civil engineers by highlighting their contributions to and impact on society.

Rumana was inspired by her father to go into a scientific field, and was driven to study transportation engineering during her undergraduate studies. In her current position, she focuses on traffic safety for the Port Authority’s bridges, tunnels, terminals, ports and airports. Rumana works on identifying, mitigating and evaluating priority crash locations as well as designing and implementing various safety measures.

Having received significant guidance from the engineering community as she entered the field, Rumana is particularly interested in returning the favor by helping prospective young engineers. She is active in the ACE mentoring program, through which she supports high school students with their design projects. She also works with the Salvadori Center’s Annual Charrette, coaching elementary school students to build scaled models of their visions of improved urban environments.

In her spare time, Rumana enjoys experimenting with new recipes and reading science fiction. She and her friends are trying to walk across every bridge in New York City.

Rumana has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and is currently working on a master’s degree in civil engineering at the City University of New York-City College.

Each year, ASCE names ten New Faces of Civil Engineering, some of whom are also submitted to the New Faces of Engineering program run by the Engineers Week Foundation. This inclusive national program includes representatives from the civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial and manufacturing engineering professions. Selected New Faces profiles are featured in a USA Today ad during Engineers Week and are profiled on the National Engineers Week website at www.eweek.org, as well as at www.discoverengineering.org.

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s oldest national engineering society. For more information, visit www.asce.org.