PROVIDENCE, RI– Matthew (Matt) Bellisle, P.E., WEDG Associate, Chief Operating Officer of Pare Corporation, was awarded the 2025 Humanitarian Award by the Providence Engineering Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the engineering industry and the community at large.
For more than 30 years, Bellisle has been a leading civil/geotechnical engineer throughout the northeast United States – all while showing tremendous dedication to making long-lasting and positive impacts on humanity, industry organizations, and community-driven projects.
Beyond his accomplishments as an engineer and a leader at Pare Corporation, Bellisle has a long history of volunteer work. Since 2011, he has volunteered annually in LaRomana, Dominican Republic, lending his construction and project management skills. His efforts have helped construct the Good Samaritan Hospital, an elementary school, a Community Center, “batey” (community) latrines, and the Caleta Urgent Care Clinic, which is currently in construction. His work through the Good Samaritan Mission Council and the Light a Candle Foundation has helped improve healthcare and provide quality of life improvements for local residents and Haitian citizens living in the Dominican Republic.
Bellisle’s local volunteer work includes serving in numerous roles for the First Baptist Church in Wickford, RI, including the Missions & Outreach Committee Chairperson, as well as his current role as Chair of the Pastoral Search Committee. He has worked with the church leadership and other local churches to establish a program that provides meals every Sunday afternoon for the underprivileged for the last 10 years. Bellisle also currently serves as a member on the Finance Committee for the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island, which operates Camp Canonicus and Conference Center, a non-profit campground and retreat center.
Bellisle has been volunteering at his alma mater, the University of Rhode Island, by providing guidance and mentorship to URI students. He participates in mock interviews for graduating students, advises the “Engineers Without Borders” student chapter, and sits as vice-chair on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Engineering.
Throughout his 33-year career, Bellisle’s professional affiliations include the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), and serving as a Leadership and Educational Committee member for the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC-MA), amongst others. Matt has regularly attended, sponsored, presented, and moderated presentations at national ASDSO conferences to advance the design, inspection, and safety of our nation’s critical dam infrastructure. His presentations have extended to well over a dozen local industry organizations related to dam ownership and the responsibilities that are attached to it.
Bellisle was also a past chair of the Environmental Business Council’s (EBC) Dam Management Committee. He developed an educational program and served as the program chair and moderator for the EBC’s New England Dam Safety Director’s Annual Leadership briefing for the past seven years.
Established in 1970, Pare Corporation provides comprehensive planning, engineering, permitting and construction-phase services throughout the Eastern United States in such fields as site/civil, highways, bridges, waterfront/marine, dams, water/wastewater, geotechnical, structural, traffic, municipal, and environmental engineering. Pare operates from offices in Lincoln, Rhode Island and Foxboro and Holyoke, Massachusetts.
