Middlesboro, KY – National Engineer’s Week (February 18 – 24, 2007) has a special significance for leading southeastern engineering and architectural services company Vaughn & Melton, Inc. It also marks the company’s fortieth year in business.

Vaughn & Melton, Inc was founded in 1967 in Middlesboro, Kentucky by Robert W. Vaughn and Lewis N. Melton. The young, engineering school graduates selected this small southeastern Kentucky city as it was an area vastly underserved in terms of engineering services. “There were people who thought we had lost our minds to start an engineering company where we did,” says co-founder Vaughn.

The founder’s assessment of the market opportunity was correct and the fledgling engineering company quickly flourished, more than doubling its size in the first three years. By the mid-1980’s the company expanded geographically adding offices in Greeneville, Tennessee and Asheville, North Carolina, and the number of professional, technical, administrative and clerical employees grew to over 100. The subsequent addition of offices in Knoxville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Spartanburg, South Carolina brought the company’s southeastern footprint to four states and six principal city offices. The company recently opened a branch field services office in London, Kentucky further expanding its market coverage.

“We are very proud of our forty-year track record and the completion of thousands of high-quality engineering and architectural projects for clients throughout the Southeast,” commented Randolph J. Scott, company President and Chief Executive Officer.

Included among the local, regional and national clients Vaughn & Melton, Inc has served are the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Army Corp of Engineers, Tennessee Valley Authority, University of North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky University, the Departments of Transportation in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, and dozens of city and county governmental agencies.

The company will be conducting open houses in each of its offices during Engineer’s Week to thank clients for their business over the past forty years.

Founded in 1967, Vaughn & Melton, Inc operates in four states with six branch offices and a field service office and offers a comprehensive range of services including: land surveying, right of way acquisition, mechanical and structural engineering, water and wastewater systems, site development, highway and street design, flood proofing, rendering, construction site services and architecture services.