The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (SHA) Chief Engineer is Sutapa Samanta.

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Chief Engineer Samanta’s professional journey started with an internship at SHA in 2006 and has continued as she grew into this executive leadership role in the highway engineering industry with a history of working both in operations and engineering. She has delivered complex engineering projects overseeing planning, design and construction. She has a PhD in transportation engineering and a Maryland Professional Engineering license. Her mantra is to take highway projects and programs through a three-staged process of ideation, development and execution as successfully as possible.

The chief engineer manages the following and those departments that report to them: