A federation of 52 state and regional groups, ACEC is made up of more than 5,600 engineering firms and affiliate members, employing over 600,000 engineers, surveyors, architects and specialists. The organization advocates locally and nationally to grow business opportunities, reduce risk for engineering firms and to promote awareness of the value of solid engineering design by qualified experts.
They encourage collaboration between practitioners and regions to build networks of colleagues for knowledge exchange, sharing of best practices and business development. The council also creates and manages programming to educate firms to promote business leadership and management excellence and continually celebrates design excellence in the built environment by engineering firms whose projects promote societal and economic benefits and sustained quality of life.
"As an organization, ACEC fosters a business environment that promotes safe, impactful and sustainable design solutions,” Cooper said. “I believe in this mission personally and believe that our member firms will create a better world for all of us. I have been a part of the ACEC/Michigan leadership team for more than a decade and am thrilled for the opportunity to now serve the organization at the national level.”
Joining Cooper on ACEC's Executive Board are several other new members with terms beginning at the 2020 Annual Convention and Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C., including:
- Robin Greenleaf, CEO of Architectural Engineers, Inc., in Boston, who will become the new Chair-elect
- Edmond Alizadeh, President of Geotechnology, Inc. in St. Louis, who will serve as a Vice Chair
- Matthew Hirst, President/COO of CRS Consulting Engineers in Salt Lake City, Utah, who will serve as a Vice Chair
- Gary Raba, President of Raba Kistner, Inc. in San Antonio, who will serve as a Vice Chair
- Jim Smith, Executive Director of ACEC/North Carolina, who will serve as the NAECE Representative to the 2020-2021 Executive Committee
