Our Mission

Deliver knowledge and business strategies that guide and elevate the engineering industry.

  • Identify, fund and provide industry wide research, forecasts, and trend analysis.
  • Capitalize on the rapidly changing nature of technology and society to ensure a sustainable engineering industry.
  • Promote the engineering profession’s essential value to society.
  • Inspire future generations to solve the world’s most challenging problems through engineering.

Introduction to ACEC Research Institute

Board of Directors

Michael J. Carragher

Chair
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer & President
VHB

Steven Lefton

Vice Chair
President & CEO
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.

Mike Corkery

Treasurer
President & CEO
Deltek

John L. Carrato

Past Chair
Chairman of the Board
Benesch

Daphne Bryant

Secretary
Executive Director
ACEC Research Institute

Lewis P. Cornell

President & CEO
WSP USA

Linda Bauer Darr

President & CEO
ACEC National

Robin Greenleaf

Managing Director
IMEG

Kate Harris

President, CEO & Chair of the Board
Stanley Consultants, Inc.

Jim Haynes

President and CEO
Power Engineers, Inc.

Chris Klein

President & CEO, ACEC Wisconsin

Nicolas Mangon

Global Vice President, AEC Business
Strategy and Marketing
Autodesk, Inc.

Cathy Ritter

President
Constellation Design Group

Alyson Watson

CEO
Woodard & Curran

Melvin Williams

Vice President & Senior Client Development Manager, Terracon Consultants, Inc.

Staff

Daphne Bryant

Secretary

Kerry Gaylor

Director, Programs