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Past FEYA Winners and Events

2025 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Major Brigham Moore, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, a deputy squadron commander serving in the United States Air Force, Pacific Air Force

2024 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Capt. Stephen Martin Jr., Ph.D., P.E., of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

2023 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Stephen Craven, Ph.D., P.E., Tennessee Valley Authority

2022 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Robert Zueck, Ph.D., P.E., U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Expeditionary Warfare Center

2021 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Major Monica Pickenpaugh, Ph.D., P.E. of the U.S. Air Force

2020 Federal Engineer fo the Year Award
Timothy Sullivan, Ph.D., P.E., U.S. Department of the Air Force, Air Force Civil Engineer Center

2019 Federal Engineer fo the Year Award
Maj Justin Delorit, Ph.D, P.E., US Department of the Air Force 8th Civil Engineer Squadron

2018 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Col. John Henderson P.E., U.S. Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District

2017 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Jennifer Bountry, P.E., U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation

2016 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Maj. Josh Aldred, Ph.D., P.E., U.S. Air Force, 8th Civil Engineer Squadron

2015 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Lt. Col. Patrick Miller, P.E., with the U.S. Air Force, 628th Civil Engineer Squadron

2014 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Capt. Timothy Callahan, P.E., an instructor and course director at the Air Force Institute of Technology's Civil Engineer School at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio

2013 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Capt. Richard Gelting, Ph.D., P.E., Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

2012 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Steven Arndt, Ph.D., P.E., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

2011 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Vincent P. Sobash, P.E., with the U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command

2010 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Lisa M. Fotherby, Ph.D., P.E., of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation

2009 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Kirankumar Topudurti, Ph.D., P.E., of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

2008 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Capt. Anthony Todd Zimmer, Ph.D., P.E., C.I.H., Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Public Health Service

2007 Federal Engineer of the Year Award
Garrett Polhamus, Ph.D., P.E., Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy (DE) Bioeffects Division

2006 Federal Engineer of the Year
John Cardarelli, II, Ph.D., P.E., CHP, CIH
Environmental Protection Agency

2005 Federal Engineer of the Year
Robert M. Koch, Ph.D., P.E
U. S. Navy

2004 Federal Engineer of the Year
Nancy J. Manley, P.E.,
U.S. Air Force

2003 Federal Engineer of the Year
William A. Mittelstadt, P.E.
Bonneville Power Administration

2002 Federal Engineer of the Year
LTC Kenneth W. McDonald, Ph.D., P.E.
Eighth U.S. Army, Republic of Korea

2001 Federal Engineer of the Year
Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., P.E., DEE
Environmental Protection Agency

2000 Federal Engineer of the Year
Floyd E. Dowell, Ph.D., E.I.T.
United States Department of Agriculture

1999 Federal Engineer of the Year
James D. Wood, P.E.
Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive Medicine

1998 Federal Engineer of the Year
Jerry A. Valcik, P.E.
Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive Medicine

1997 Federal Engineer of the Year
William W. Brubaker, P.E.
NASA

1996 Federal Engineer of the Year
Thomas R. Clement, P.E.
Army Corps of Engineers

1995 Federal Engineer of the Year
William F. Marcuson, III, Ph.D., P.E.
Army Corps of Engineers

1994 Federal Engineer of the Year
Edwin C. Reynolds, Jr. P.E.
Air Force Material Command

1993 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. Randy L. Haupt, P.E.
U.S. Air Force Academy

1992 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. Jonathon P. Deason, P.E.
Department of the Interior

1991 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. M.Y. Shahin, P.E.,
Army Corps of Engineers

1990 Federal Engineer of the Year
Richard G. Koegel, P.E.
Agricultural Research Service Department of Agriculture

1989 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. Ravi Jain, P.E.
Army Corps of Engineers

1988 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. Richard N. Wright, P.E.
National Bureau of Standards Department of Commerce

1987 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. C. Dan Kealy, P.E.
Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior

1986 Federal Engineer of the Year
Sophia Kokkinos Ashley, P.E.
Naval Facilities Engineering Command

1985 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. Stuart O. Nelson
Department of Agriculture

1984 Federal Engineer of the Year
Dr. Emil Simiu
National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce

1983 Federal Engineer of the Year
Francis E. Baker, Jr., P.E.
David Taylor Naval Research Center

1982 Federal Engineer of the Year
John R. Boyle, P.E.
Tennessee Valley Authority

1981 Federal Engineer of the Year
Walter C. Williams
NASA

1980 Federal Engineer of the Year
John McElroy Davis, P.E.
Naval Facilities Engineering Command