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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 2022 President’s Award was presented to George Kluempke of Brain Intertec (retired). George was instrumental in founding the ACEC Minnesota Political Action Committee, which has evolved into the current ACEC/MN Political Fund. He served on the PAC Committee for many years and helped to build awareness and drive fundraising from ACEC/MN members to have a louder voice in St. Paul to advocate for the interest of the consulting engineering industry. George was named CEO of Braun Intertec in 1997 and served in that position through 2009.

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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
2020   Bret Weiss, WSB
2021   Bob Moore, SRF; Chris Leverett, Kimley-Horn; Gene Sieve, Burns & McDonnell
2022   George Kluempke, Braun Intertec