Dewberry announced that Lisa Peterson, PE, PLS, CME, has been promoted to associate in the firm’s Mount Laurel, New Jersey, office.
Peterson, who works as the transportation department manager, has more than 16 years of industry experience. Her technical expertise includes bridge replacements, and highway drainage and interchange design improvements. Peterson was involved with the award-winning New Jersey Turnpike Interchange 6-9 widening project, as well as the Route 3 over the Passaic River project. Peterson is the first woman to hold dual professional engineer and professional land surveyor licenses in southern New Jersey.
Peterson earned her first bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology (2002) and her second in survey engineering technology from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (2010). She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Women’s Transportation Seminar. Peterson was named a 2018 Top Young Professional by Engineering News-Record (ENR) New York.