President’s Award
The ACEC/MN President's Award is presented by the Board of Directors to an individual employed by an ACEC member firm who has made a significant contribution to the association and has been a valuable asset to the consulting engineering profession over the past year. This could include regular or ad hoc committee activity; attendance at the awards banquet, monthly meetings and seminars; promoting ACEC/MN to the public and/or acting in the interests of ACEC/MN; or other activities. Current members of the ACEC/MN Board of Directors are not eligible for this award.
The 2020 President’s Award was presented to Bret Weiss of WSB. This award is presented by the board of directors to an individual, employed by an ACEC member firm, who has made a significant contribution to the association in the past year.
Brett is a dedicated and active member of ACEC Minnesota. He has forged closer ties with the business community with his leadership on the MN Chamber Board of Directors, and has been instrumental in planning the popular Minnesota Executive Panels that have been part of ACEC/MN's Leadership Breakfast series. He has also encouraged participation in ACEC/MN Committees and activities from WSB staff, as well as sponsoring ACEC/MN events.
Thank you and congratulations!
Sirish Samba and Jon Curry presenting Bret Weiss with the 2020 President's Award.
President's Award Recipients
1991 Bob Rosene – Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & Associates
1991 Dag Knudsen – Dag I. Knudsen & Associates
1992 John Berner – Berner Engineering Testing
1993 Jim Keller – Gausman & Moore
1994 Bob DeGroot – STS Consultants
1995 Stephanie (Cross) Young – Mattson/Macdonald
1996 Lisa (Lee) Breuer – Barr Engineering
1997 Doug Wolfangle
1998 Dwight Benoy – INSPEC
1999 Ken Adolf – Schoell & Madson
2000 Wally Ouse – Cain Ouse Associates
2001 Doug Differt – URS Corporation
2002 Doug Cooley – Michaud Cooley Erickson
2003 Cameron Kruse – Braun Intertec
2004 Richard Sobiech – TKDA
2005 Terry Swor – American Engineering Testing
2006 Doug Weiszhaar – WSB & Associates, Inc.
2007 Matt Ruble – Braun Intertec Corporation
2008 Lyndsey Alm - Environmental Resources Management
2009 Douglas Tholo - Howard R. Green Company
2010 Ted Field, TKDA
2011 Randy Geerdes, SRF Consulting
2012 Bret Farmer, TKDA
2013 Patrick Hughes, Parsons Brinckerhoff
2014 Mark Bloomquist, Holly Newman, and Eric Heiberg
2015 Gene Sieve, Burns & McDonnell Engineers-Consultants
2016 Jody Elam-Foote, Northern Technologies, LLC
2017 Greg McCool, Ericksen Roed & Associates, Inc.
2018 Kim Deibel, American Engineering Testing, Inc.
2019 Jon Wacker, HGA