Carson Harken has joined the Robert Peccia & Associates (RPA) Helena office as an Engineering Designer/Construction Technician in the Transportation Planning and Operations Group. Carson is a recent graduate of Carroll College where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. While attending college, Carson gained valuable hands-on engineering experience through an extended internship where he primarily completed drafting and report writing for multiple land development projects. In his role as an Engineering Designer, Carson assists with various aspects of transportation planning and engineering analyses, including data collection, alternatives analysis, preparation of transportation planning documents and traffic simulation and modeling.