ACEC NEWS / FALL CONFERENCE

Olympian Chaunté Lowe on Running Your Own Race

Southern California, 1988. A four-year-old girl watches the Summer Olympics in Seoul and is mesmerized by track and field phenom Florence Griffith-Joyner’s triple gold medal wins for Team USA. Between…

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You Can Row Your Own Way

What’s it like to achieve something momentous and life-changing that few people on Earth have ever achieved, only to have the first question you’re always asked be about who WASN’T…

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The Future is Ours to Build

“The future we end up in is the future we choose to build.” Those opening remarks by futurist Mike Walsh set both the tone and the table for his keynote…

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Innovation Expert Discusses Winning by Changing the Game

The first keynote speaker of the 2025 Fall Conference in San Diego opened his presentation by sharing that he has personally contributed to helping our industry mitigate our workforce challenges:…

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Fall Conference Kicks Off in San Diego

General Session attendees at ACEC’s 2025 Fall Conference got a personal welcome this morning from Todd Gloria, mayor of the Conference’s host city of San Diego. Directing his warm and…

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ACEC 2024 Young Professionals of the Year

At ACEC’s Fall Conference in New Orleans, ACEC presented five engineers with the prestigious Young Professional of the Year Award. Of these five finalists, Tevis Holzer, a project manager with…

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Iron Cowboy to Fall Conferencegoers: Find Your Passion

The financial collapse of 2008 cost American households an estimated $16 trillion in wealth; one quarter of U.S. households lost at least 75 percent of their net worth. The final…

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AI Pioneer: The Future is NOW

As artificial intelligence continues to top lists of both concern and opportunity for the engineering industry, ACEC Fall Conference attendees had the opportunity this morning to hear directly from one…

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Lunchtime Life Lessons with Sebastian Terry

When he was 25 years old, Sebastian Terry was awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call that changed not only his life, but also spurred a…

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A Brilliant Future Written in the Stars

The first keynote speaker of the 2024 ACEC Fall Conference in New Orleans kicked off his presentation with a bang – literally. Astrophysicist and former Space Science Education Lead Dr.…

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