ACEC/MO Engineering Excellence Awards

Electronic Project Entry Submission – Submit an Entry 

Submissions:  All project entry submissions must be submitted online through ACEC/MO's online portal.  The deadline to submit your entry is Wednesday, October 22, 2025.  A check payment of $450 per project entry, must also be submitted to the ACEC/MO office.  See the Call for Entries Brochure link below for more details. 

EEA Resources

• ACEC/MO’s EEA Call for Entries Brochure
  
• Click Here to Download ACEC/MO's Official Entry Form
• ACEC/MO EEA Project Submission Checklist
  
• Helpful Hints for Submitting in EEA Competition
  
• ACEC Logo
• Sample PowerPoint Presentation
• Sample EEA Panels (Past Winners)

History of Engineering Excellence Competitions

In coordination with our national affiliate, ACEC, the American Council of Engineering Companies of Missouri (ACEC/MO) holds an annual project competition. Our goal is to recognize the quality engineering design that member firms can produce and tell our membership and the public about this engineering quality design.  We adopt the rules for entry that are annually dictated by ACEC. Our state deadline for project entries is in mid/late October, with judging in mid-November. Projects winners going on to the national competition are required to complete a panel to illustrated the projects unique features and have a deadline of early January.  A panel of judges for the ACEC/MO competition is chosen from outside the membership to carefully consider the entries. Judges are carefully considered and selected from various sectors including construction, education, architecture, government and media. Our annual awards banquet highlighting the state winners is in February/March either in St. Louis or Kansas City. The ACEC award banquet is held in May/June in Washington, D.C.

Panel of EEA Judges

Jeff Glenn GlennView Strategies	Joseph G. Hagerty Past ACEC/MO Board Chair	Cody Henderson Feeler S. Architects (FSA)	Joe Kulessa St. Louis County
Brett Lennon Millstone Weber, LLC	Dr. George Nnanna University of Missouri - St. Louis	Tod Palmer KSHB 41	Len Toenjes AGC of Missouri

2025-26 Engineering Excellence Committee

Rob Krewson, Co-Chair, Benesch
Todd Welz, Co-Chair, Quigg Engineering, Inc.
Marc Alper, Alper Audi, Inc.
Rick Bennett, WSP USA Inc.
Dan Brown, Walter P Moore
Scott Cogan, WSP USA Inc.
Nick Correnti, EFK Moen, LLC
Kelley Davis, HDR, Inc.
Buddy Desai, Hg Consult, Inc.
Nicole Hood, GFT
Michele Keal, Benesch
Michelle Kratzer, GFT
Kevin Kriete, HDR, Inc.
Lou Kuelker, HDR, Inc.
Vicki LaRose, Civil Design, Inc.
Tawn Nugent, TREKK Design Group, LLC
Jay Rakers, Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc.
James Ritter, Hg Consult, Inc.
Allen Smith, Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc.
Griffin Smith, Garver
Breck Washam, Burns & McDonnell
Mark Young, Young Engineering, LLC
John Zimmerman, GFT