STEM Forward has named Ken Mika, operations manager at O’Brien & Gere, Milwaukee, 2017 Young Engineer of the Year. Mika is a true believer in giving back to the community and paying it forward. He has made it a life goal to give back whenever he can through professional societies, food and toy drives at offices and project sites, and cleaning up parks. Mika has taken on roles as scholarship director, president-elect, president, and now past-president on the American Society of Civil Engineering Wisconsin Section Southeast Branch Board as well as Secretary and now Vice President on the Wisconsin Section Board.
Mika led the construction quality assurance for an $80 million environmental dredging and habitat restoration project in Indiana. A recent project in Wisconsin has been his most challenging to date, requiring an environmentally impacted wetland to be investigated, have remedial design work, and have the contractor begin remedial work within six months. As project manager, he worked with team members from multiple disciplines to pull off the project, which was completed ahead of schedule, under budget, and safely with no lost-time incidents.
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