Tiffany Hwang

About Tiffany Hwang

Tiffany is an Associate Bridge Engineer with Buro Happold at the downtown Los Angeles, CA, office.Tiffany was a Senior Civil/Structural Engineer at SpaceX at the Starbase site in Brownsville, TX, during 2022, where she worked as owner\'s engineer and construction manager for a rocket production factory.During her 8 years at COWI, she was a project engineer for the detailed design of the Iron Horse Trail Bollinger Canyon Rd Pedestrian cable-stayed bridge in San Ramon, CA; Nærheden cable-stayed bridge in Denmark; the world’s next longest suspension bridge, the Çanakkale 1915 Bridge in Turkey; and the Wellsburg network tied-arch bridge in WV. She has also worked on the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden; the Abraham Lincoln Bridge (Ohio River Bridge Downtown Crossing); and the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (New NY Bridge replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge). Tiffany worked in the Lyngby, Denmark, headquarters of COWI, as well as the New York and Oakland offices of COWI, and has designed structures according to American, Canadian and European design codes (AISC Steel Manual, AASHTO LRFD, ACI 318, ASCE 7, CAN/CSA S6, Steel Eurocode and Concrete Eurocode).Tiffany earned her B.S.E. at Princeton University and her M.S. at Columbia University, both in civil engineering with a focus on structural engineering. She served as the 20••••21 Chair of the Structural Engineering Engagement and Equity (SE3) Committee of the Structural Engineering Association of Northern California (SEAONC). Tiffany was co-founder and co-chair of COWI’s Women’s Network in North America. She also traveled to Rwanda to construct a suspended pedestrian bridge with the non-profit Bridges to Prosperity in 2019.

Experience

1. Associate Bridge Engineer

   Buro Happold

   Jan 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

Education

• Columbia University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Civil Engineering with Concentration in Structural Engineering

  2012 — 2013

• Princeton University

  Bachelor of Science and Engineering (B.S.E.), Civil Engineering with Focus in Structural Engineering

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Structural Engineering
• Engineering
• Sap2000
• Microsoft Office
• Research
• Finite Element Analysis
• Microsoft Excel
• Autocad
• Matlab
• Civil Engineering
• Latex