AACE International is honored to be able to recognize all award winners at this year’s Conference & Expo.  It is through such outstanding ability, service, and dedication displayed by our members that AACE International can continue to be the strong organization that it is.  Our thanks go to you for the hard work, long hours, heartfelt involvement, and commitment to excellence that these awards symbolize.  It is our great pleasure to share these awards with you and to acknowledge everything you have given to AACE.  Congratulations!

AACE is pleased to recognize the following award winners:

Mark T. Chen, PE CCP FAACE Hon. Life; John Jeffrey Hannon; and Dr. David T. Hulett, FAACE – BRIAN D. DUNFIELD EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AWARD

This award is to publicly recognize and honor the educational teaching achievements over an extended period by an individual who is a member of the cost engineering professional community. The recipient must have advanced the skills and knowledge of cost engineering through teaching, writing, editing, and/or publishing educational materials used to train and educate present and future cost professionals.

Mark T. Chen, PE CCP FAACE Hon. Life – Mark joined AACE International in 1990. He earned became a Certified Cost Professional (CCP) in 1991.  He has been an active force in the Seattle Section and served as President (2005-2007).  Mark was a long-serving member on the AACE Education Board and where he also served as Chair (2002-2004).  He has been a frequent author and presenter of Conference & Expo technical papers and skills and knowledge presentations.  Mark has previously been honored by AACE with the TCM Excellence Award (2000), AACE Fellow (2013), and Honorary Life Membership (2013).

John Jeffrey Hannon – Jeff has been an engineering technology professor at University of Southern Mississippi located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for nearly 15 years. He previously served on AACE International’s Education Board where he contributed to the CCP and CEP study guides.

Dr. David T. Hulett, FAACE - David became a member of AACE in 1999. He is a leader in creating modern concepts and methods for quantitative schedule and cost risk analysis.  He has authored two independently published books on schedule and integrated cost-schedule risk analysis as well as articles in Cost Engineering. David is the principal author of two AACE Recommended Practices (RPs.). He has presented at AACE and other professional conferences. He is the President of Hulett & Associates, LLC with consulting clients in the US, Canada, South America, Asia and Europe. David was previously recognized by AACE as a Fellow (2015).