ACEC NEWS / FALL CONFERENCE

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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ACEC CEO Linda Bauer Darr Addresses Board of Directors

ACEC’s Fall Conference kicked off this morning in New Orleans with a meeting of our Board of Directors, during which President and CEO Linda Bauer Darr delivered remarks on the…

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Integrating AI Tools in a Way that Makes Sense

Over the last few years, many have gone from thinking about software as the exclusive domain of developers to now having the low-code software and AI capabilities to develop applications…

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ACEC Honors Benesch’s John Carrato

During the 2023 Fall Conference awards ceremony, ACEC recognized John Carrato, Benesch’s former CEO and the immediate past chair of the ACEC Research Insitute, with the prestigious Chair Emeritus Award.…

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Applications of Immersive Gaming: More Than Meets the Eye

Immersive collaboration is an evolving hot topic across industries, particularly considering the high proportion of remote workers. While there are a few ways to define immersive collaboration, it was defined…

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Ben Saunders Strikes Chords on Innovation, Teamwork, Individual Accountability

Throughout the Fall Conference, the power of translating human potential and wisdom across industries emerged as an overarching theme. Ben Saunders is living proof of how this multidisciplinary collaboration is…

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