Other awards include Engineer of the Year, awarded by the Structural Engineers Association of Washington, which has been given to several MKA engineers, including Bill Ward, John Skilling, John Hooper, Jon Magnusson, and Michael Valley. The Grand Conceptor Award is the highest award given by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). Integrity Statement | Ron Klemencic, P.E., S.E. of Magnusson Klemencic Associates, an award-winning, 200-person structural and civil engineering firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with a branch office in Chicago. In 1955 the firm was renamed Worthington and Skilling, reflecting the addition of John Skilling as a partner. After the end of World War II the building industry in the United States picked up and the firm grew in size. An equal access/equal opportunity university | The World Trade Center was designed by partners of the firm, including Leslie Robertson, before he departed to found his own company, Leslie E. Robertson Associates. His first building project was a city in his sandbox at the age of five. I get to play the game at a very high level. By age 30 Magnusson was a principal, and in 1987 the firm was renamed Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire. Accessibility Resources | Klemencic earned his BS in civil engineering from Purdue in 1985 with top honors, and his master’s degree in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. 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