Student of the Year Award
2000-2001 Recipient
Kimberly Doyle
Doyle, EIT, earned her Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and is ABET accredited. Her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering is from The University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and her Associate of Applied Science in Civil Engineering Technology is from Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, N.Y. She is from Defreestville, N.Y.
Doyle has been a graduate teaching assistant and graduate research assistant. Among her contributions in those capacities, she load tested for a full scale model timber trestle railroad bridge; investigated discrepancies between controlled laboratory testing and field testing of railroad bridges, and co-authored three technical papers published in two international scientific journals. She also lectured on engineering and supervised laboratory work.
A member of Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, and Chi Epsilon, National Civil Engineering Honor Society, Doyle was on the deans' list, chancellor's list, president's list and received the UNCC Spirit Award.
Her professional experience involves work as a draftsman where she performed soil and on-site concrete tests, drafted engineering details for building and site plans and prepared exhibits. Her career path continued with engineer-in-training assignments with a professional engineer and continued to project structural engineer where Doyle designed framing and foundation layouts for residential and commercial projects as well as inspecting for design compliance, and was responsible for composing field reports and working with AutoCAD.
Currently with EagleSpan Steel Structures, Inc., Loveland, Colo., Doyle is a project structural engineer. Her responsibilities include designing primary and secondary elements for commercial steel buildings and bridges; administration and employment of specialty engineering software, and coordination of engineering projects with clients and engineering graphics.
