mentorship

LA Structural Designer Appointed to Board of Structural Engineers Association of Southern California

Araceli Abanilla, a structural design engineer in our Los Angeles office, was recently appointed to the board of the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC). SEAOSC announced the appointment last month and Abanilla will officially begin her two-year term ...

Roundtables

Roundtable: CM Leaders Talk Partnership, Mentoring with Public Housing Residents

The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act of 1968, a crucial expansion to the Civil Rights Act signed that same year, was the first major step toward fair housing for all. Section 3, a provision of the HUD Act, enables ...

Employee News, Social Responsibility

STV Data Scientist Named Mentor for Break Through Tech AI Program

STV Senior Data Scientist Bilal Assaad, P.E., was recently named a mentor for the 2023-2024 Break Through Tech AI program at Cornell Tech. Break Through Tech works at the intersection of academia and industry to propel women, non-binary students, and ...

Chris Cerino accepts an award at his alma mater

Social Responsibility

STV Presents Architectural Engineering Award at Penn State University

STV Vice President and Technical Director of Structural Engineering, Urbanism and Planning, Christopher Cerino, P.E., F.SEI, DBIA, recently traveled to Penn State University to participate in his alma mater’s 2023 Architectural Engineering (AE) Senior Thesis & Awards Banquet. He was one ...

Employee News

STV’s Federal BD Director Wins National SAME Award for Mentoring

Senior Vice President and Federal Business Development Director Neal Wright P.E., PMP, F.SAME, F.ASCE, F.NSPE, Lt. Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), was selected as the 2022 recipient of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Gerald C. Brown Mentoring Award. Wright ...

ACE mentor program at the STV Philadelphia office

Social Responsibility

Philadelphia Engineers Give Back Through ACE Mentor Program

Team members in our Philadelphia office recently ramped up efforts to introduce the next generation of talent to our profession by hosting the first two in a series of ACE Mentor Program events. After initially launching an ACE (Architects Construction ...

UTA engineering students visiting the Dallas office

Social Responsibility

Externship Program Continues Mentoring Legacy in Texas

A key part of the legacy of Walter Chiang, the late founder of CP&Y, an STV Company, was his dedication to mentoring the next generation of industry professionals. “It is important to motivate our young minds and encourage them to ...

Columbia students with STV staff at our NYC office

Social Responsibility

STV Brings Master Students New Perspectives on Project Management

In partnership with Columbia University’s Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) Master of Science Program, STV recently provided a select group of students with a first-hand view of project management in action by conducting the class at the firm’s New York ...

Employee News

NJ Engineering Specialist Selected as STV’s First for WTS Leadership Program

In a first for an STV employee, Hilary Porter, EIT, engineering specialist in the Lawrenceville, NJ office, recently completed the prestigious Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) International Signature Leadership Training program in Washington, D.C. The four-day leadership event, which includes sessions ...

Employee News

STV Chief of Staff Honored with Leadership Impact Award

STV’s Athena Ullah, chief of staff to the CEO, was named winner of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s annual Leadership Impact Award. The award honors graduates of its Industry Leader Development Program (ILDP), which took place ...

Employee News

Philadelphia Civil Engineering Specialist Elected to Leadership Post of Transportation YOU Chapter

Gina Venuto-Gabriella, a civil engineering specialist in STV’s Philadelphia office, has been elected to the board of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Philadelphia Chapter and chair of its Transportation YOU program. Venuto-Gabriella, who has been an active member of WTS ...

New York Team Hosts Salvadori Center Career Development Event for High School Students

Social Responsibility

STV Hosts Salvadori Center Career Development Event for High School Students

Members of STV’s New York team recently hosted a group of students from the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design for a group discussion about pursuing careers in architecture and engineering. The visit was arranged by the prestigious Salvadori ...

Social Responsibility

STV Grows Its Presence Within ACE Mentorship Program

For more than two decades, STV has been an ardent supporter of theACE (Architecture Construction Engineering) Mentor Program of America, helping to introduce hundreds of high school students from around the country to careers in design and construction. So it’s ...

Employee News

Jim Perise Named “Engineer of the Year” in New York

The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) has named James “Jim” Perise, P.E., LEED AP, vice president and chief plumbing and fire protection engineer, 2022 Engineer of the Year, marking the second year in a ...

Tamia Burkett, Angela Truong, and John Grieco presented at Cristo Rey Boston High School.

Social Responsibility

STV Employees Present on AEC Industry as Part of STEM Career Panel

A group of STV employees recently visited a high school that serves low-income families in the Boston area to discuss careers the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. Project Administrator Tamia Burkett, Engineering Specialist Angela Truong, and Quality Assurance ...

STV Stewardship

Staying Organized: The Importance of Professional Organizations in New Careers

When early career professionals enter the industry, often their network consists of former classmates and coworkers. That’s why, as they start their exciting new positions, it’s also important for them to seek out professional organizations that will in turn, allow ...