Roadway Design Engineer
Robert G. Campbell & Associates, L.P.
Bean Station, TN, United States
Tanner Keck is a Roadway Design Engineer at Robert G. Campbell & Associates, L.P., a civil engineering and land surveying firm based in Knoxville that provides such services primarily to the East Tennessee area, including roadway design for highway projects for the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT).
He is currently a part-time student at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in their online-based Surveying and Mapping Science Bachelors program, and a recent graduate of civil engineering at Tennessee Technological University (TTU) in Cookeville, where he emphasized in Transportation Engineering and Construction Engineering and Management.
His passion for transportation/highway engineering and transportation construction project management is rooted in his previous work experience including two summer internships in highway construction engineering & operations for the Tennessee Department of Transportation, with construction projects ranging from minor projects on the resurfacing of state roadways and on-call concrete repairs, to large-scale projects such as State Route 33/Maynardville Highway improvements and the State Route 115/Alcoa Highway improvement project at TDOT Region 1 for Construction Unit Offices 1821 and 1822 in Knoxville. Additionally, he worked during the winter of 2023-2024 for heavy-civil/highway general contractor Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc.of Sevierville, TN, on highway projects including Alcoa Highway Phases III, IV, and V, and the Newport Bypass/State Route 35 project, where he was able to achieve a better understanding of the means and methods of road and bridge construction including operating heavy equipment such as motor graders and backhoe loaders, flagging and work zone traffic control, grade checking/setting, construction surveying/layout, rigging and crane operations for bridge construction, and concrete work for bridges.
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Easier Said Than Done: Understanding & Promoting the Value of Constructability in Transportation
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM MT