Engineers Week celebrates the people and projects that keep Arizona moving

Engineers are kind of a big deal here at ADOT.

You may already realize the role they play when it comes to designing and building the state’s highway system, but they’re responsible for even more than that.

From electrical and computer engineers who work on the systems that keep traffic moving to geotechnical engineers and traffic engineers, many types of engineers are essential to ADOT’s operations. So, when National Engineers Week rolls around each year, we take it as a chance to highlight ADOT engineers and all the work they do...

Today, we’re doing that by looking back at some of our favorite engineering-focused blog posts from this past year:

• Check it out: Loop 101/90th Street bridge time lapse – learn how (and why) engineers lowered a 160-foot bridge that weighs over 1 million pounds
• Truck escape ramps serve important safety role – hear an engineer explain how truck escape ramps work
• Transportation Defined: Bailey Bridge – see this cool structure that is used (and was designed) by engineers
• Months of US 89 repair work is squeezed down to minutes in new time-lapse videos – see the repair of a landslide-damaged stretch of US 89, a project that involved many engineers
• Hell Canyon Bridge replacement project is underway – learn about a project that, like all ADOT projects, relies on the expertise of engineers
• Why we build roundabouts – learn why traffic engineers use roundabouts to solve traffic problems
• 1.8-million-pound oversize load set to move through Arizona – find out how engineering helped to move a really big truck through our state

More about National Engineers Week
Started by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, National Engineers Week (Feb. 21-27) is marked in February each year to call attention to the contributions of engineers while emphasizing the importance of math, science and technical skills. Visit DiscoverE.org for more.