Engineering and Construction Award

2010 Winner:

Marathon Petroleum Company -- Garyville Major Expansion Project

Description:

This award recognizes individuals or teams for achievement in the design and/or construction of process plants or process plant revamps. Eligible nominees should be from industry or from a government laboratory or another nonacademic entity. The achievements may be the result of excellence in process engineering, project engineering, project management, equipment design, engineering and/or construction scheduling and construction management. Examples of the types of contributions to be recognized include:

• Implementing a difficult or unusual project
• Developing novel engineering or construction techniques
• Meeting challenging environmental constraints
• Pioneering the use of new design methodologies
• Delivering a difficult project within tight time and budget requirements
• Commercializing a first-of-a-kind process
• Making sustained contributions over a long period of time

Selection of the winner of the award will be based on three key criteria:

• Impact of the contribution – has it made a difference in the market place and global community?
• Magnitude of the challenges that were overcome – what was the degree of difficulty?
• Innovation and technical creativity – what is the intellectual content?

Deadline:

For 2012 only, the nomination deadline for this award will be April 15, 2012. 

Award:

A plaque

Presentation:

Presented at the Honors Ceremony at the AIChE Annual Meeting.