The ACEC Minnesota Engineering Excellence Awards highlight and celebrate the amazing engineering achievements of the Minnesota Consulting Engineering Industry. Projects entered in last year's competition represented over half a billion dollars of investments in private and public infrastructure.
The Engineering Excellence Awards Competition shows all the ways that consulting engineering improves our lives, communities, and businesses - we can wait to see your entry for 2025, so keep reading below to learn how to enter!
2025 EEA Competition Resources
Here's everything you need to know to apply to the 2025 ACEC/MN EEA competition.
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Click here for our 2025 one-page infographic with links to the preliminary and final submission pages, as well as the ACEC National Call for Entries brochure.
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Click here for our 2025 EEA Guidelines document with details on how to apply and more information on the ACEC National EEA competition.
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Click here for our EEA Judging Criteria document to review categories and questions that judges will use to evaluate entries.
New for 2025!
- To streamline preparations for our Gala, this year ACEC/MN will print all entrant Photo Panels. Photo Panels not uploaded when the Final Entry is submitted are due by Wednesday, January 8th, 2025. See our Guidelines document for more details.
- Entrants have a new option to present their project at the EEA Gala - in place of the slideshow of project images and Gala Description, entrants can submit a 60 second video that introduces and highlights your project, giving an overview of the project and its impact, potentially showing it in use by the client / general public. See our Guidelines document for more details.
- We will present a new award at the 2025 EEA Gala for the top scoring project using Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS). A question asking if your project entry used QBS is already built into the Final Entry portal.
Important Dates:
Information Session (via Zoom): Monday, September 9th, 2025
Click here to sign up for this Information session
Preliminary Entry Deadline: Thursday, October 3rd
Click here for the Preliminary Entry webpage
Final Entry Deadline: Thursday, October 24th
Click here for the Final Entry webpage
Project Judging Event: Wednesday, November 13th
Notice to Grand / Honor Award Winners: Week of November 18-22
Engineering Excellence Awards Gala: Friday, February 23rd at A'BULAE in St. Paul
Other EEA Resources:
2025 ACEC/MN EEA Logos - Please use these when completing your photo panel, see our Guidelines document above for more details:
Photo Panels for EEA Entries - if you would like to review example photo panels, please see these links:
- Gallery of 2024 Photo Panels / People's Choice Voting Page
- Panel for 2023 Grand Conceptor & People's Choice Winner - The Dayton's Project by Meyer Borgman Johnson
- Panel for 2022 Grand Conceptor Winner - Grassy Point-Kingsbury Bay Habitat Restoration by Barr Engineering
- Panel for 2022 People's Choice Winner - I-35W Minnesota River Bridge Design-Build Project by Alliant Engineering
EEA Project Categories - If you're not sure which category your project is in, you can review this document with examples of projects in all categories.
2024 Gala / Projects - If you want to look back to last year's competition and Gala, see the links below:
Any questions? Email John Krapek at john@acecmn.org.