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The ACEC Minnesota Engineering Excellence Awards highlight and celebrate the amazing engineering achievements of the Minnesota Consulting Engineering Industry. Projects entered in the 2024 competition represented over half a billion dollars of investments in private and public infrastructure.

The Engineering Excellence Awards Competition shows all the ways that consulting engineering improves our lives, communities, and businesses - thank you to all our entrants to the 2025 competition, we can't wait to see your projects at the Gala on Friday, February 21st!

 

2025 entry information is below for reference, but please note that we have passed our entry deadlines for this year's competition.

 

2025 EEA Competition Resources

Here's everything you need to know to apply to the 2025 ACEC/MN EEA competition.

 

New for 2025!

  • To streamline preparations for our Gala, this year ACEC/MN will print all entrant Photo Panels. Photo Panels not uploaded when the Final Entry is submitted are due by Wednesday, January 8th, 2025. See our Guidelines document for more details.
  • Entrants have a new option to present their project at the EEA Gala - in place of the slideshow of project images and Gala Description, entrants can submit a 60 second video that introduces and highlights your project, giving an overview of the project and its impact, potentially showing it in use by the client / general public. See our Guidelines document for more details.
  • We will present a new award at the 2025 EEA Gala for the top scoring project using Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS). A question asking if your project entry used QBS is already built into the Final Entry portal.

 

Important Dates:

Information Session (via Zoom): Monday, September 9th, 2025

Click here for the archived video

Preliminary Entry Deadline: Thursday, October 3rd

Click here for the Preliminary Entry webpage

Final Entry Deadline: Thursday, October 24th

Click here for the Final Entry webpage

Project Judging Event: Wednesday, November 13th

Notice to Grand / Honor Award Winners: Week of November 18-22

Engineering Excellence Awards Gala: Friday, February 21st at A'BULAE  in St. Paul

 

Other EEA Resources:

2025 ACEC/MN EEA Logos - Please use these when completing your photo panel, see our Guidelines document above for more details:

Photo Panels for EEA Entries - if you would like to review example photo panels, please see these links:

EEA Project Categories - If you're not sure which category your project is in, you can review this document with examples of projects in all categories.

2024 Gala / Projects - If you want to look back to last year's competition and Gala, see the links below:

Any questions? Email John Krapek at john@acecmn.org.