Recipients of the Young Engineer of the Year Award
This award recognizes outstanding achievement by an engineer 35 years of age or younger by December 31st prior to the Engineers Week Awards Banquet. Nominees are judged on the basis of educational and collegiate achievements; professional society activities; civic and humanitarian activities; continuing competence; engineering achievements; and overall professional experience.
| 2023 | Boya Xiong (American Society of Civil Engineers) Christopher DeDene (Minnesota Geotechnical Society) |
| 2022 | Raphael Stern (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 2021 | Ariel Christenson (American Society of Civil Engineers) Daniel Kvasnicka (Society of American Military Engineers) |
| 2020 | Jimmy Bennett (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 2019 | Kimberly Miller (Society of Women Engineers) Erin Krug, PE (Society of American Military Engineers) |
| 2018 | Lindsay Roberts McKenzie, PE (Society of American Military Engineers) |
| 2017 | Rachel Pichelman, PE (Society of American Military Engineers) |
| 2016 | Jia-Liang Le, PhD (ASCE) |
| 2015 | Kerry Cooley Brueggeman, PE (Society of Women Engineers) |
| 2014 | Charlene Willenbring (Society of Women Engineers) |
| 2013 | Patricia Walker (Society of Women Engineers) |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lowry, PE (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 2011 | Holly Pheil (Society of Women Engineers) |
| 2010 | Chantill Kahler Royer (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 2009 | Kaizhong Gao (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers and the Chinese American Information Storage Society) |
| 2008 | Dr. Timothy LaPara (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 2007 | Steven F. Wojtkiewicz Jr (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 2006 | Alyse Stofer (Society of Women Engineers) |
| 2005 | Paul Eickenberg, PE (American Society or Civil Engineers and the Society of American Military Engineers) Blake Larson, PE (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 2004 | Chad Surprenant, PE (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) Mark Zimmerman, PE (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 2003 | William Arnold (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 2002 | Karlene Silvera (American Society for Quality) |
| 2001 | Peter White (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 2000 | Paige Novak (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 1999 | Lisa Lee, PE (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1998 | Bryon Jorgenson, CMfgE (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) |
| 1997 | Rebecca Ellis, PE (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1996 | Mark Ellis (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) |
| 1995 | Jerome Hajjar (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 1994 | Wendy Foslien (Honeywell Engineers Club) |
| 1993 | Bonnie Holte-Bennett, PhD (Honeywell Engineers Club) |
| 1992 | James Sax (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) |
| 1991 | G. Nick Weisensel, PhD (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 1990 | Fred Tsuchiya, PE (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 1989 | Laurie Altman (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) |
| 1988 | Suzanne Jiwani, PE (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1987/86 | Robert Davidson, PE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) |
| 1986/85 | Sam Claassen, PE (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 1984 | William Trygstad (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1983 | Stephen Hartman (American Society for Quality) |
| 1982 | Raymond Sterling (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 1981 | Michael Kallok (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 1980 | Donald Riley (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) |
| 1979 | Steve Vanderboom (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1978 | Daniel Black (American Society for Quality) |
| 1977 | Chris Macosko (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) |
| 1976 | Allan Gebhard (American Society of Civil Engineers) |
| 1975 | Stephen Tuttle (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1974 | Donovan Stormoe (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
| 1973 | Cameron Kruse (Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers) |
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