Industry Insights: Exploring the intersection of urban planning, engineering, and design with Margaret Newman '87

Date
Jan 28, 2021, 9:00 am11:00 am
Location
Virtual
Audience
  • Graduate Students
  • Undergraduate Students

Details

Event Description

Industry Insights is a series of programs led by Princeton alumni, which help participants build tangible skills, discover diverse industries, and learn about company cultures and recruitment timelines. Alumni will also share their career backgrounds, and offer advice for breaking into their sectors or industries. Students will be able to interact with alumni through skill-building sessions consisting of job search advice, case studies, or overviews of organizational projects and initiatives. The alumni speakers will sometimes be joined by members of their organization, who will help give students an in-depth look into their companies.

In this session, students will explore the fields of civil engineering and urban planning. These industries are broad and interconnected, and offer students unique opportunities to work at private and public agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. Individuals in these professions may work in transportation engineering/planning, community development, urban design, real estate, environmental planning, or historic preservation. These professions also offer opportunities to engage with the public, work with data, and create innovative designs and solutions for cities' infrastructures.

What to expect:
For this session, we will focus on exploring the fields of civil engineering, architecture, and urban planning. Students will hear from an alum, Margaret Newman '87 who will share her career journey and information about her organization, and then will lead students through a hands-on and interactive skill-building session.

This workshop is part of Wintersession. 

Margaret Newman

Margaret Newman '87

With experience as an architect and urban planner in New York, Margaret Newman, FAIA, leads her own consulting firm More Urban, advising on design, urban planning, transportation and development projects. Margaret has extensive experience designing and building complex projects in urban environments.

Most recently, Margaret was leading the Integrated Planning team and Cities Practice NY at Arup. As a leader at Arup, she was responsible for a team of 35 staff who provided services for a diverse group of clients including architects, private industry, cultural institutions and public agencies. The core discipline areas for the team projects included property, site and campus development, mobility and transportation planning, data and analytics including modeling.

Ms. Newman has coordinated and managed the needs of multiple stakeholders: city and state agencies, private sector and real estate industry clients, community and non-profit organizations, identified funding needs for complex projects as well as permit approval process for city agencies, design commission and landmarks. She has managed a wide range of project consultants including civil and transportation engineering, structural, MEP, acoustic, lighting, product, furniture, graphic design, site and landscape design. Major projects include work for Amtrak at Chicago Union Station, the New York City DOT, MTA and New York State ESD and DOT, Ford Motor Company, JP Morgan Chase and Tishman Speyer.