Section Awards
2025 Award Winners
On behalf of the ASCE MN Section, we would like to congratulate the ASCE MN Section Annual Award winners!
2025 Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year – Maren Hansell
2025 Outstanding Engineer of the Year – Dr. Miki Hondzo
2025 Project of the Year – The City of Chaska and Bolton & Menk, Inc. for Downtown Highway 41 Improvements, Chaska, Minnesota
And the winner is…
Nominate yourself or your peers for the below section awards!
Minnesota Section Awards 2026: Time for Nominations!
Do you happen to know of a project within the state of Minnesota that has advanced the public health, safety and welfare for the public and local communities? How about knowing an exceptional individual within the civil engineering community for their dedication to the profession as well as community?
If so, please consider submitting a nomination for one of the award categories bestowed by the Minnesota Section.
Award Categories:
- Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year
- Outstanding Engineer of the Year
- Outstanding Project of the Year
The recipient must be both a member of ASCE and the Minnesota Section.
How to submit a Nomination:
Award requirements, nomination forms, instructions and other information can be found on the ASCE-MN website, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and as follow per each category:
Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year
Outstanding Engineer of the Year
Outstanding Project of the Year
File(s) are to be uploaded as part of the nomination. If you have issues and/or questions uploading the file(s) for these nominations, please contact the ASCE Awards Director. More details are forthcoming in January 2026.
If you have any other questions, please reach out to ASCE Awards Director at: awards@ascemn.org. Thank you and best of luck to the nominees.
Award Criteria
ASCE MN Young Engineer of the Year Award Nomination
Award Criteria:
Outstanding achievements by an engineer 35 years of age or younger.
Exhibits technical competence.
Leadership contributions to the civil engineering profession.
Contributions to the local community representing the civil engineering profession and/or public service outside their professional career.
Member in good standing of ASCE and Minnesota section.
ASCE MN Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award Nomination
Award Criteria:
Outstanding achievements by an engineer with experience in excess of 20 years.
Technical contributions to the civil engineering profession.
Leadership contributions to the civil engineering profession.
Contributions to the local community representing the civil engineering profession and/or public service outside their professional career.
Member in good standing of ASCE and Minnesota section.
Possess professional engineering license.
Nominations for this category require a resume.
ASCE MN Project Award Nomination
Award Criteria:
This award is presented to an outstanding civil engineering project recently constructed in Minnesota (timeframe of May through February).
Award recipients may include a Project Owner, Project Designer and/or Project Contractor.
Project contribution to the civil engineering profession that includes protecting the public health, safety and welfare.
Project of significant importance related to design resourcefulness, construction innovation, and/or impact on environment considerations.
Project must be within the state of Minnesota and/or involving substantial work within Minnesota (greater than 70%) if the project crosses boundary lines.
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.