Erika Lindeberg

Erika Lindeberg is a senior project manager and group lead at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a global leader providing services in advanced manufacturing, cities and places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation, and water. Within the transportation group, Lindeberg leads the traffic engineering and highway safety team for the northeast, where she is the lead traffic engineer on various projects including large-scale major highway interchange reconstruction from New Jersey to Maine and manages multiple highway safety-engineering projects. Lindeberg also performs quality assurance, business development, staff hiring and mentoring. Prior to joining Jacobs in 2022, she worked for 28 years at the Connecticut Department of Transportation, including her last five years as Principal Engineer in the Division of Traffic Engineering. 

She is a licensed Professional Engineer and has earned certifications as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) and Roadway Safety Professional (RSP1). She currently holds several positions in professional engineering organizations, including secretary of the WTS (Advancing Women in Transportation) Connecticut chapter; secretary of the ITE ( Institute of Transportation Engineers) Connecticut section; chairperson of the Regulatory/Warning technical committee for the NCUTCD (National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices); and a member of the TRB (Transportation Research Board) pedestrian committee. While at UConn, Lindeberg wrote a thesis on safety improvements of shoulder rumble strips in Connecticut. She has also been an adjunct professor at UConn teaching several graduate and undergraduate civil engineering courses, and volunteers to assist a senior civil engineering design team.