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Illinois Award

The Illinois Award is ISPE’s highest award given to an individual and is presented to an engineer who has made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession, the public welfare and/or humankind. All nominees must be a PE and will be considered for nomination to NSPE for the NSPE award. All award winners are recognized at the ISPE Annual Conference.

Nomination Process / Method of Selection​
Candidates shall be licensed engineers whose civic, professional, or technical contributions have included outstanding service to the engineering profession, to the public welfare, and/or humankind and/or whose special contributions to ISPE have been in areas of administration, communications, professional development, public relations, legislative affairs, liaison society development, or other areas promoting the social, economic, and professional interests of engineers.

Current officers and directors of ISPE and NSPE are ineligible. Nominations may be submitted by any ISPE member or chapter, and the submission must be approved by the candidate’s chapter. The ISPE winner will be considered for nomination to NSPE for the NSPE Award. NSPE does not limit a state society to the approval of a single candidate. A candidate must receive a minimum of two nominations to be eligible for the award. Nominations can be carried over to the following year.

The ISPE Honors and Awards Committee makes the selection of the winner, weighing the following particulars:
  • The candidate’s professional integrity is beyond question.
  • The professional reputation is more than local in character.
  • The undertaking or services upon which the award is based are in high order.
  • There is more than an ordinary relationship between the undertaking of services and the public welfare, the military affairs of the country, and the good of humankind.

Deadline and Submission 
Fill out the form linked below and send to info@illinoisengineer.com no later than May 1. 
Nomination Form

Recipients

2018     Mary Coombe Bloxdorf, PE, SE
2016     Joy Rexshell, PE
2015     Sergio “Satch” Pecori, PE 
2014     Nathan Schwartz, PE 
2013     R. Todd Weegens, PE 
2012     Duane Yockey, PE 
2011     Mark Wylie, PE, SE 
2010     Darrel Wolff, PE
2009     Ray Schwartz, PE 
2008     Keith Brandau, PE, SE
2007     Curtis D. Cook, PE 
2006     John Mick II, PE, F.NSPE
2005     Nathan Wilcoxon, PE
2004     David Oates, PE
2003     Zeyn Uzman, PE, SE
2002     Kathryn Gray, PE , NSPE
2001     Gale Jamison
2000     Michael Hall
1999     Milton R. Sees
1998     Dale Klohr
1997     Daniel F. Hang
1996     John Frauenhoffer
1995     Leo J. Dondanville
1994     Richard T. Berning
1993     Irwin C. Smiley
1992     Fred C. Garrott
1991     Donald M. Pries
1990     Robert Bergendoff
1989     Allan L. Rae
1988     Robert H. Benton
1987     R. Dean Collins
1986     Harold Roffmann
1985     Joseph A. Schudt
1984     John D. Eyestone
1983     Jerry S. Dobrovolny
1982     Paul E. Flood
1981     John R. Towers
1980     Walter E. Hanson
1979     George Farnsworth
1978     Ralph M. Weaver
1977     Leonard K. Crawford
1976     Louis W. Sprandel
1975*    Walter D. Linzing
1973     William S. Gray
1972     William J. Santina
1971     Robert A. Jewett
1970     Earl Moldovan
1969     J. Raymond Carroll
1968     Ralph G. Michael
1967     Louis A. Bacon
1966     C. Dale Greffe
1965     George Dement
1964     C. J. McLean
1963     W. W. Wallace
1962     H. F. Sommerschield
1961     Melvin E. Amstutz
1960     James P. Murphy
1959     D. S. Magowan
1958     Thomas C. Shedd
1957     C. K. Willett
1956     A. D. Spicer
1955     F. W. Edwards
1954     William Everitt
1952     George Ekblaw
1951     
C. W. Klassen
1950     
H. E. Babbitt
1949     
Leo M. Spurling
1948     
A. M. Kaindl
1947     
W. E. Trover
1946    
 V. E. Gunlock
1945     
Alex Van Praag, Jr.
1944     
S. M. Wood
1943     A. P. Greensfelder
1942     
F. L. Osborn
1941    
 H. E. Babbitt
1939     
S. M. Wood
1938     
J. R. Longley
1937     
L.C. Whittemore
              
N. E. Anderson
1936     
S. M. Wood
1934     
A. C. Stanfield
1933     
M. B. Reynolds
​              
A. E. Green
1932     
W. B. Walraven
1931    
 W. W. Mathews
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