Young Civil Engineer of the Year
The 2024 Austin YMF Young Civil Engineer of the Year is Anamaria Torres, P.E.
As a pacesetting-leader in the transportation industry, Anamaria Torres strives to make travel as safe as possible for all users while promoting engineering careers through STEM outreach.
Originally from Louisiana, Anamaria E. Torres, P.E., PTOE, earned her civil engineering degree from Louisiana Tech University and a MS degree in civil engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Anamaria is a leader at Stantec as a Senior Transportation Engineer with 10+ years of technical experience in private and public sector transportation design. Her traffic engineering experience includes traffic signal designs, signing and pavement marking designs, roadway illumination design, traffic studies, signal warrant analyses, and traffic control plans. She has helped deliver major project such as SH288 Toll Lanes in Houston and completed traffic signal designs on the UT Austin Robert Dedman Drive Realignment project.
Anamaria is highly active in the industry, and currently is an active Fellow of ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) – A Community of Transportation Professionals. Anamaria has served as President of the Capital Area Section of ITE in 2022, graduated from the LeadershipITE program, and was awarded the Texas District of ITE 2021 Younger Member of the Year Award. She was also a guest speaker on the ITE Talks Transportation podcast.
Being the first engineer in her family, Anamaria actively searches for opportunities that allow her to give back to the community and help introduce the next generation to engineering to foster a more diverse workforce within the engineering space.
