2024 Association Awards
Thanks to everyone who sent in nominations for the 2024 ICEAA Association Awards. Winners will be announced on May 15 at ICEAA’s 2024 Professional Development & Training Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
If you have questions about the Association Awards or the nominating process, email iceaa@iceaaonline.org
Download our ICEAA Awards FAQs and nomination tips sheet (PDF) for insights and advice on creating an award-winning nomination!
Award Criteria
Association Service Award: This award recognizes individuals (or a team) who have shown continuing dedication to the interests of ICEAA and who have made significant and sustained volunteer contributions to the ICEAA organization for a period of years. Contributions should be of a highly significant nature and contribute positively to the advancement of ICEAA and/or an ICEAA Chapter. A few examples of such contributions would include:
- Uncommon and sustained volunteer service to the association.
- Assistance with conferences and other ICEAA events.
- Providing forums and media through which experiences with the principles and techniques of cost estimating and analysis may be reported, discussed and published in furtherance of public interest (e.g. editorial, publications, symposium leader, etc.).
- Cooperating with other organizations and individuals, having common or related purposes that contribute to the cost estimating and analysis community of practice.
- Significantly advancing ICEAA’s professional status and making significant personal commitments to ICEAA such as long-term service in a leadership role at either the national level or chapter levels.
- The individual recipient or key team member(s) must be current ICEAA members in good standing.
Educator of the Year Award: This award recognizes individuals (or a team) who have made outstanding education and training contributions to the profession. It recognizes and honors educational and/or teaching achievements, over the previous year. The recipient must have advanced the skills and knowledge of cost estimating and analysis through teaching, writing, editing, and/or publishing educational materials used to train and educate present and future cost professionals. A few examples of such contributions would include:
- Promoting a Common Body of Knowledge as a standard for individual excellence.
- Promoting and providing training in support of ICEAA Cost Estimator/Analyst Certification.
Developing educational programs. - Mentoring new cost estimators.
- Disseminating knowledge and developing the next generation of successful cost estimators and analysts.
- Building proficiency and performance in cost estimating capabilities of ICEAA members.
- The individual recipient or key team member(s) must be current ICEAA member(s) in good standing.
Technical Achievement of the Year Award: This award recognizes the individual who has made outstanding technical contributions to the profession of cost estimating and analysis over the past year. Technical excellence may be accomplished through significant achievement in technical work and/or by playing an instrumental part in the development of technical products. A few examples of such contributions would include:
- Performing research in developing new knowledge and advancing theory in cost estimating and analysis.
- Innovative use of cost models or development of new models.
- Promoting integration and synergy among cost estimating and analysis and other disciplines.
Developing and maintaining standards of proficiency and performance. - Establishing standards in the terminology, conduct, and application of cost estimating and analysis.
- Using new approaches and techniques to conduct cost estimates/analyses or parametric databases/analyses, develop CERs, databases, and/or models.
- Expert application of statistical procedures for CERs.
- The individual recipient must be a current ICEAA member in good standing.
Management Achievement of the Year Award: This award recognizes the individual who has made outstanding management contributions to the profession of cost estimating and analysis over approximately the previous year. Management excellence may be accomplished through significant administration of cost estimates and analyses. The Award recognizes the individual who provides the most effective demonstration of his/her project management competence. A few examples of such contributions would include:
- Creating a productive work environment as well as the drive and impetus to enable co-workers or employees to accomplish achievements.
- Exhibiting a balance of management skills, juggling different views and perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities.
- Maintaining focus ensuring his/her team’s performance is efficient and the project’s objectives are met.
- Rewarding achievement through an appropriate program of recognition and endorsement.
Promoting standards of proficiency and performance. - Providing forums and media through which experiences with the principles and techniques of cost estimating and analysis may be reported, discussed, and published in furtherance of public interest.
Developing and maintaining standards of proficiency and performance. - The individual recipient must be a current ICEAA member in good standing.
Team Achievement of the Year Award: This award recognizes a team demonstrating significant accomplishments during the year through analysis for their organization (or an organization supported by their work). Achievement should have a significant resultant impact on the mission of the organization, or by influencing an important decision through the use of cost analysis.
- Demonstrating an outstanding accomplishment within the field.
- Promoting high impact on the organization or chapter supported by the work.
- Exemplifying how cost analysis work provides decision support by influencing the management vision, goals, and objectives.
- Key team member(s) must be current ICEAA member(s) in good standing.
Junior Analyst of the Year Award: This award recognizes an individual with 5 or fewer years of cost estimating/analysis-related experience who has contributed to significant cost analysis work during the course of the year. This individual should demonstrate a bright future through job-related work and education in the field. Work-related activities can be performed individually or as part of a larger group. This individual demonstrates the use of CEBOK principles within his/her cost analysis work.
- Demonstrating work toward proficiency in the field through job-related activities and education.
- Demonstrating an upward trajectory on increasing levels of skill and impact to cost field.
- The individual recipient must be a current ICEAA member in good standing.
The Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award: This award recognizes an individual making lifetime outstanding accomplishments in cost estimating and/or parametric analysis. It is presented to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and made an outstanding contribution (theoretical or applied aspects) to the cost estimating and analysis community during his or her lifetime. This individual is passionate about their work, skilled in the art of cost estimating, and has/had practiced these fundamentals for a significant amount of his or her career. A Lifetime Achievement Award candidate is expected to have left a legacy to the profession (fifteen years or more) and can receive the award only once in a lifetime. A few examples of such contributions would include:
- They have demonstrated commitment to the profession over time.
- Have qualified as meeting many of the criteria for other award categories over career.
- Shown outstanding and unique capabilities in support of the cost estimating and/or parametric analysis.
- Has provided a body of work that has benefited cost estimating and analysis.
- Has consistently endeavored to enhance the professional image of cost engineering over an extended period of time.
- Has applied cost modeling principles to unique, highly complex problems.
- Has successfully applied cost estimating and analysis to brand new market segments.
- Outstanding example(s) of advancing the state of the art and/or practice of cost estimating and analysis beyond its current bounds.
- The individual recipient must be a current ICEAA member in good account standing.
Additional Awards Criteria/Information
Awardees are eligible only if they are current members of ICEAA in good standing. For group awards, this means that at least one members of the team must be a member in good standing. Greater weight shall be given to teams where a significant contribution was made by one or more ICEAA members.
Only one plaque shall be awarded per award. For teams, a single plaque will be awarded and a certificate given to each team member who is an ICEAA member in good standing.
Previous Award Winners:
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| Year | Award | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Aubrey Davis |
| 2023 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Olivia Johnson |
| 2023 | Team Achievement of the Year | Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) Cost Team |
| 2023 | Management Achievement of the Year | Christopher Massey |
| 2023 | Association Service Award | Kevin Cincotta |
| 2022 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Thomas Cook |
| 2022 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Patrick Ahearn |
| 2022 | Team Achievement of the Year | Army Defensive Cyber Operations Cost Team |
| 2022 | Management Achievement of the Year | Cash Fitzpatrick |
| 2022 | Educator of the Year | Carol Dekkers |
| 2021 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Morgan Heimbrock |
| 2021 | Management Achievement of the Year | Laura Hawthorn |
| 2021 | Team Achievement of the Year | Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Cost Team |
| 2021 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Kevin McKeel |
| 2021 | Educator of the Year | Denise Nelson |
| 2021 | Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award | Christian Smart |
| 2021 | Association Service Award | Christina Snyder |
| 2020 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Justin Cooper |
| 2020 | Management Achievement of the Year | Sam Kitchin |
| 2020 | Team Achievement of the Year | Australian Defence Force Design Team |
| 2020 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Orly Olbum |
| 2020 | Educator of the Year | Cost Assessment Data Enterprise (CADE) Training Team |
| 2020 | Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award | John J. McGahan Jr. |
| 2019 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Brandon J. Johnson |
| 2019 | Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award | Andy Prince |
| 2019 | Management Achievement of the Year | Remmie Arnold |
| 2019 | Educator of the Year | Peter Braxton |
| 2019 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Sara McNeal |
| 2019 | Team Achievement of the Year | NASA Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA) Cost Evaluation Team |
| 2019 | Association Service Award | Britt Staley |
| 2018 | Management Achievement of the Year | Capt. Keith O'Donnell |
| 2018 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Marc Stephenson |
| 2018 | Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award | Peter Andrejev |
| 2018 | Educator of the Year | Donald Remer |
| 2018 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Karen Mourikas |
| 2018 | Team Achievement of the Year | Air Force Research Laboratory Cost Team |
| 2018 | Association Service Award | Joe Wagner |
| 2017 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Beth Hodson |
| 2017 | Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award | Bruce Fad |
| 2017 | Management Achievement of the Year | Guenever Aldrich |
| 2017 | Educator of the Year | Mike Thompson |
| 2017 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Sanathanan Rajagopal |
| 2017 | Team Achievement of the Year | SPAWAR 1.6 AoA Cost Analysis Team |
| 2017 | Association Service Award | Tim Anderson |
| 2016 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Adam James |
| 2016 | Junior Analyst of the Year | Derreck Ross |
| 2016 | Educator of the Year | Gregory Mislick, Dan Nussbaum |
| 2016 | Team Achievement of the Year | PRICE Cost Research Team - Joe Bauer, Anthony DeMarco, Grady Noll, Gurney Thompson |
| 2016 | Frank Freiman Lifetime Achievement Award | Shu-Ping Hu |
| 2016 | Management Achievement of the Year | Vrenti Ghergari |
| 2015 | Association Service Award | Andy Nicholls |
| 2015 | Management Achivement of the Year | Dave Morana |
| 2015 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Erin Barkel |
| 2015 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Jim Hayes |
| 2015 | Educator of the Year | Melissa Teicher |
| 2015 | Parametrician of the Year | Peter Frederic |
| 2015 | Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Ricardo Valderdi |
| 2014 | Parametrician of the Year | Greg Kiviat |
| 2014 | Technical Achievement of the Year | James Glenn |
| 2014 | Association Service Award | Peter J. Braxton |
| 2014 | Management Achivement of the Year | Richard Beavers |
| 2013 | Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Alf Smith |
| 2013 | Association Service Award | Awarded to the 10 members of the "Jointness Committee" |
| 2013 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Brian Flynn |
| 2013 | Educator of the Year | Eric Druker |
| 2013 | Technical Achievement of the Year | Robert Nehring |
| 2013 | Management Achivement of the Year | Robyn Kane |
| 2012 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Arlene Minkewicz |
| 2012 | SCEA Service to the Society | Eleanor Bassett |
| 2012 | ISPA Keith Durbridge Service Award | Jason Dechoretz |
| 2012 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Education | Kevin Cincotta |
| 2012 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Peter Frederic |
| 2012 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Management | Tom Dauber |
| 2012 | SCEA Techincal Achivement Award | Virginia Stouffer |
| 2012 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | William Haseltine |
| 2011 | SCEA Techincal Achivement Award | Blake Boswell |
| 2011 | SCEA Service to the Society | Dan Nussbaum |
| 2011 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Joe Dean |
| 2011 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Management | Ken Hunt |
| 2011 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Education | Michael Mahoney |
| 2010 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Education | Bethia L. Cullis |
| 2010 | SCEA Service to the Society | Mike Thompson |
| 2010 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Management | Rick Collins |
| 2010 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Steve Book |
| 2010 | SCEA Techincal Achivement | Tim Anderson |
| 2009 | SCEA Service to the Society | Christina Brims |
| 2009 | SCEA Techincal Achivement Award | Eric Druker |
| 2009 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Education | Hollis Black |
| 2009 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Management | Jeff Moore |
| 2009 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Dale Shermon |
| 2008 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Management | Debra Walter |
| 2008 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Dick Coleman |
| 2008 | SCEA Techincal Achivement Award | Gregory Bell |
| 2008 | SCEA Contributions in the Field of Education | H. Samuel Cooke |
| 2008 | SCEA Service to the Society | Robyn Kane |
| 2007 | SCEA Management Award | Dianne E. Butler |
| 2007 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Frank R. Flett |
| 2007 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Humbolt Mandel |
| 2007 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Michael E. Popp |
| 2007 | SCEA Service to the Society | Paul R. Marston |
| 2007 | SCEA Education Award | Peter J. Braxton |
| 2007 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Quentin Redman |
| 2007 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | William Brundick |
| 2006 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Candace S. Hendrickson |
| 2006 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Georges Teologlou |
| 2006 | SCEA Management Award | Marc Barden |
| 2006 | SCEA Education Award | Richard "Allen" Atwell |
| 2006 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Richard Stutzke |
| 2005 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Dr. Lewis Fichter |
| 2005 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Giancarlo Filippazzo |
| 2005 | SCEA Education Award | Martha Ann Spurlock |
| 2005 | SCEA Service to the Society | Mary Harmon |
| 2005 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Peter Meisl |
| 2005 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Steve Book |
| 2004 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Clyde Perry |
| 2004 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Dr. Humbolt Mandell |
| 2004 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Jairus Hihn |
| 2004 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Joe Hamaker |
| 2004 | SCEA Education Award | Marge Evriviades |
| 2004 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Richard Fox |
| 2004 | SCEA Service to the Society | Robyn Kane |
| 2004 | SCEA Management Award | Terry Johnson |
| 2003 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Craig R. Shanske |
| 2003 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Darryl Webb |
| 2003 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | David Eck |
| 2003 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Gary Constantine |
| 2003 | SCEA Education Award | Michael A. Greiner |
| 2003 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Neil Albert |
| 2003 | SCEA Management Award | William F. Stranges |
| 2002 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Arlene Minkiewicz, Karen McRitchie |
| 2002 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award | Charles Hopkins |
| 2002 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Tom Brents |
| 2001 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Dan Galorath |
| 2001 | SCEA Education Award | Dr. William "Bud" Bowlin |
| 2001 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Frank A. "Andy" Prince |
| 2001 | SCEA Management Award | Paul R. Marston |
| 2001 | SCEA Service to the Society | Robert B. Carlton |
| 2001 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Robert W. Young |
| 2001 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Sherry Stukes, Karen Davies |
| 2000 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Don MacKenzie |
| 2000 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Georg Reinbolt |
| 2000 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Paul Lubell |
| 1999 | SCEA Education Award | Bryan D. Turner |
| 1999 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award | Dan Ferens |
| 1999 | SCEA Management Award | David A. Morana |
| 1999 | SCEA Service to the Society | David G. Olsen |
| 1999 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | David L. Peeler, Jr. |
| 1999 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | William Rutledge |
| 1998 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Henry Apgar |
| 1998 | SCEA Lifetime Achievement Award | Milton Margolis |
| 1998 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Pierre Foussier |
| 1998 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Ron Larson |
| 1998 | SCEA Management Award | Steven D. Sowers |
| 1998 | SCEA Education Award | Steven Malashevitz |
| 1998 | SCEA Technical Achievement Award | Tina Colarossi |
| 1997 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Marilee Wheaton |
| 1997 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Sherry Stukes |
| 1997 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Tony DeMarco |
| 1996 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Meinolf Wenzel |
| 1996 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Seb Botta |
| 1995 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Bruce Fad |
| 1995 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Madeline Ellis |
| 1994 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Gary Constantine |
| 1994 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Nina Tahir |
| 1993 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Charles Mauro |
| 1993 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Peter Korda |
| 1992 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Clyde Perry |
| 1992 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Keith Burbridge |
| 1992 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Peter Korda |
| 1991 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Cindy Castellana |
| 1991 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Don Reifer |
| 1991 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Marilee Wheaton |
| 1990 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Dan Ferens |
| 1990 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Gerald McNichols |
| 1990 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Henry Apgar |
| 1989 | ISPA Keith Burbridge Service Award | Jack Griffin, Seb Botta |
| 1988 | ISPA Clyde Perry Parametrician of the Year | Alan Mayer |
| 1988 | ISPA Frank Freiman Award (Lifetime Achievement) | Barry Boehm |