Barbara H. Mulkey Joins Civil & Environmental Engineering Advisory Board at UNC-Charlotte

Raleigh, NC—Apr. 12, 2011— Barbara H. Mulkey, PE, founder and Chairman of the Board of Mulkey Engineers & Consultants, has become a member of the recently formed advisory board for the Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

This CEE advisory board includes community business leaders and engineers from area consulting firms and research groups that meet to connect the business community with UNC Charlotte CEE students, discuss suggestions and improvements for the department as well as share the education and training they seek in future UNC Charlotte CEE graduates. The group, which is led by professor and department chair David T. Young, Ph.D., P.E., will have its second meeting today.

“We are working to prepare these new engineering professionals through relevant coursework as well as enable them to successfully meet new challenges, such as those in the areas of sustainability and energy, when they join the growing engineering community in our region and beyond,” said Mulkey.

Mulkey has greatly influenced the engineering community in the Triangle for more than three decades. Her firm has been nationally recognized by Engineering News Record four times as one of the top 500 design firms in the country. It was
named as one of the 50 fastest growing private companies in the Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal, and was listed on Zweig White’s Hot Firm List, which recognizes the 200 fastest growing architecture, engineering and environmental
consulting firms in the U.S. and Canada.

Mulkey is involved with several higher education engineering programs in the state and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for her alma mater, N.C. State University.