The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Eric Ohanian, PE, a structural engineer at Tighe & Bond, as a winner of their 2020 Young Professional Award.

During his career Ohanian has worked on various bridge and culvert replacement projects. He has assisted numerous towns in receiving over $3 million in grant funding for bridge rehabilitation projects. He has helped pioneer a cost effective and innovation culvert inspection practice utilizing a submarine, which has saved communities approximately $500,000 of unnecessary replacement costs. Ohanian also helped support the City of Quincy’s emergency triage on the seawall protection system after devastating storm surges and flooding in March of 2018, providing around-the-clock emergency response efforts utilizing innovative GIS mapping technologies.

A resident of Canton, Ohanian is a member of numerous professional organizations including Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT), American Public Works Association (APWA), Norfolk Bristol Middlesex Highway Association (NBM), and Essex County Highway Association (ECHA). He also is a Young Member Group Committee Member for Structural Engineers of Massachusetts (SEAMASS), Structural Engineers of New Hampshire (SENH), and Boston Society of Civil Engineers (BSCES).

His community volunteer activities include judging the DiscoverE New England Future City Competition as well as organizing volunteer efforts at the Greater Boston Food Bank, Westwood Food Pantry, Habitat for Humanity, the Friday Night Supper Program at Arlington Street Church in Boston, Adopt a Family campaign with Harbor Communities Overcoming Violence, and Regional Environmental Council Earth Day Cleanup in Quinsigamond State Park in Worcester.

“Eric has demonstrated a passion for the profession and clearly believes that every day offers an opportunity to learn something new,” said ACEC/MA President Jennifer Howe, Principal and Vice President at SMMA, Symmes, Maini & McKee Associates . “It is a pleasure to honor him with our Young Professional Award and we look forward to his continued contributions to the engineering profession.”

About ACEC/MA

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) is the business association of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island engineering industry, representing over 120 independent engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, environmental, industrial, and other infrastructure. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Boston, MA, ACEC/MA is a member organization of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) based in Washington, DC. ACEC is a national federation of 51 state and regional organizations. For more information on ACEC/MA, visit their website at www.acecma.org. ACEC/MA is undertaking an awareness campaign to educate the public on the many contributions engineers make (or the engineering innovations) in everyday life through their hash tag #EngineeringGoFigure. To Follow us on Twitter: @ACECMA.