Section Awards
2026 Award Winners
On behalf of the ASCE MN Section, we would like to congratulate the ASCE MN Section Annual Award winners!
2026 Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year – Dr. Benjamin Worsfold, PE
2026 Outstanding Engineer of the Year – Jim Hall, PE
2026 Project of the Year – Cass County, City of East Gull Lake, and Bolton & Menk, Inc. for Gull River Crossing, Cass County, Minnesota
SEI Chapter Scholarship Recipient - Tyler Boltenhouse (UMN - Twin Cities)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Awardees:
Anna Moggia – Outstanding Student Award
Henry Allan Kluever – Outstanding Student Award/Activity Award
Isabel Newhouse – Benson Award/Outstanding Student Award
Erik Kittelson – Goodman Award
Mikai Thomas Tasch – Activity Award
Maria Ceceil Hanson – Outstanding Student Award
Kyle Richard Peterson – Outstanding Student Award/Activity Award
Nick Moore – Activity Award
Seana Ruiz – Activity Award
University of St. Thomas Awardees:
Nate Brandhorst - Outstanding Leadership Award
Ben Brandt - Distinguished Service Award
Rebecca Bishop - Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award
Minnesota State University - Mankato Awardees:
Tanner Kendall – current junior (rising senior)
Teresa Collingwood – current sophomore (rising junior)
Life Member Award
To obtain Life Member status, Individuals in the grade of Fellow, Member, Associate Member, or Affiliate must be at least 65 years old, have paid dues in any membership grade except student for at least 35 years AND have had ten years continuous membership immediately preceding the attainment of Life Member. Life member awards are tracked on the Society level and the Minnesota Section presents the awards on an annual basis at our awards banquet every April.
Section Scholarships
Scholarships are nominated in the spring each year and awarded at the Section’s April awards banquet.
ASCE MN Structures Committee - SEI Chapter Scholarship Award - $2,000
The ASCE-MN Structural Committee and chapter of SEI awards a scholarship to an outstanding undergraduate member of ASCE, with a focus in structures, to encourage further studies and a future career in the rewarding field of structural engineering. The selection is based on the paper application, which involves an essay.
Outstanding Student and Activities (Student) - $250 ea. + book (3 per school)
These scholarships recognizes both outstanding academic performance and services as well as level of engagement in student activities. Each school has its own selection committee, which primarily involves faculty members.
Joseph Goodman, M. ASCE Scholarship - $3,000
Dr. Lawrence E. Goodman (pictured) was a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota for 35 years starting in 1954 and was Head of Department of Civil Engineering from 1965 to 1972. Dr. Goodman provided a gift to the Section which was to be held as an endowment to provide a cash award to a “graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota having the highest score on the Fundamentals of Engineering examination” (from those examinees who have consented to disclosing their scores). The Section awards the Goodman scholarship to the most outstanding student majoring in Civil Engineering, as nominated by their school’s faculty. This prize is in memory of Joseph Goodman, M. ASCE.
If you would like to nominate someone for an award or have questions, please complete the form below:
Society Awards
In acknowledgement of the following Society award recipients from the Minnesota Section…
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Mr. Ryan Berg, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE has been selected by the ASCE’s Geo-Institute to receive the 2021 Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award for “his expertise in geosynthetic-reinforced earthworks and retaining structures and for his lifelong contributions to the developments and applications of MSE walls, which helped create innovative solutions for practical problems.”
Other recent Society Awards presented to Minnesota Section members:
Dr. John S. Gulliver, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE from the Minnesota Section has been selected by the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute to receive the 2020 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award for “over three decades of service in bringing water quality into the field of hydraulic engineering, education engineering students, authoring prominent textbooks and handbooks and serving engineering practice.