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Employee Highlight Archives - Page 12 of 14 - DiPrete

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Q&A with Jakob Cruikshank, Civil Engineer at DiPrete Engineering

Q: Prior to joining DiPrete Engineering's team, what were you doing? A: Before joining the DiPrete Engineering team over two years ago, I was an active student at the University of Rhode Island. During my senior year I had the exciting opportunity to be the president for the school's Institute of Transportation Engineer’s chapter (ITE), as well as the teacher’s assistant for a Highway Engineering class.   Q: Why did you choose to go into…
Sheryl Guglielmo
April 2, 2018
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DiPrete Celebrates its Women in Construction

The effort started with the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), a group of 16 women founded in Fort Worth, Texas during the 1950s. These women were all actively employed in the construction industry and were looking for a support system. Back then, only 8.9 percent of those working in the U.S. construction industry were women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today, engineering, construction, and architectural firms (among others) across the country…
Sheryl Guglielmo
April 2, 2018
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Welcome, Pamela Abreu!

DiPrete Engineering is pleased to introduce its newest team member, Pamela Abreu. Pamela joined DiPrete in December 2017 as a Civil Engineer with prior experience working for Ayoub Engineering as a Civil Engineering Technician and Designer. Her work included site development design that specialized in gas stations and commercial uses, as well as grading and drainage design, submission applications, meetings, and commercial uses, and expedited permitting. "We are very excited to have Pamela join our team,"…
Sheryl Guglielmo
March 28, 2018
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Q&A with Marianne Diffin, Civil Engineer at DiPrete Engineering

Q: When did you join DiPrete Engineering and what role do you play at the firm? A: I joined DiPrete in June of 2016, after attending Chris Duhamel’s Capstone course at the University of Rhode Island. I had been in school for an extended period, getting a degree first in Environmental Science before switching over to Civil Engineering. My previous work was largely field and environmentally-oriented, with an internship at an environmental engineering firm the…
Sheryl Guglielmo
February 23, 2018
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Emerson Torrey Helps Organize Tom Petty Hurricane Relief Concert

Last month, a group of local musicians, including DiPrete Engineering’s very own Director of Information Technology, Emerson Torrey, held a concert called “A Higher Place,” to benefit those affected by 2017’s treacherous hurricane season across parts of Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean. Not long after deciding to hold the hurricane relief concert back in October, classic rock musician Tom Petty passed away. “Right then, we knew we wanted to feature songs of Tom Petty’s at…
Sheryl Guglielmo
February 23, 2018