A. Carol Towers (’94)
Engineering Technician
McFarland-Johnson, Inc.

A. Carol Towers (’94) was a librarian for 20 years with the Broome County Library before she decided to change careers. She remembered a summer job she had enjoyed at college doing surveying for the US Forest Service and she entered the BCC Civil Engineering program to get into that field. She is now an Engineering Technician at McFarland Johnson in Binghamton. Her job includes going into the field to collect data, then using her findings to draw up plans. She worked on the Clinton Street rehabilitation, mapping out the plans to straighten the road, put in new drainage, curbs, sidewalks and lighting. Her most recent project was part of the Route 17/ I-86 upgrade near Liberty, NY. She used data from the field to create models of what the highway in that area will look like when it is completed.

“That was new for me, “ Carol said. “The modeling and rendering… but I really enjoyed it.”

Carol added that the modeling projects create “a big feeling of accomplishment when you’re done.”

BCC helped her make the adjustment to being an older student. “The Civil Tech people were marvelous to me. They went out of their way to make sure I got what I needed.”