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NCEES announces winners of 2025 NCEES Surveying Education Award
Penn State University College of Engineering and Northwestern Michigan College Technical Division receive $25,000 grand prizes
NCEES is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 NCEES Surveying Education Award. This annual award recognizes surveying programs that best reflect the organization’s mission to advance licensure for surveyors in order to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
NCEES awarded the Penn State University Surveying Engineering program the $25,000 grand prize in the four-year program category. The award jury praised the program for its clear vision for online expansion and strong outreach efforts. NCEES awarded the Northwestern Michigan College Surveying program the $25,000 grand prize in the two-year program category. The award jury praised the program for being industry driven and providing a variety of professional pathways to students. Jurors considered criteria such as student outcomes and involvement, outreach and recruitment, and the promotion of licensure.
The jury selected five additional winners to receive the following awards:
Four-year category
$15,000 winners
New Mexico State University
Department of Engineering Technology and Surveying Engineering
Geomatics/Surveying Engineering program
University of Akron
College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Surveying and Mapping program
$10,000 winners
New Jersey Institute of Technology
School of Applied Engineering and Technology
Surveying Engineering Technology program
Nicholls State University
Department of Applied Sciences
Geomatics program
Two-year category
$10,000 winner
University of Wyoming
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Land Surveying program
The award jury of NCEES members and representatives from surveying societies met virtually June 5, 2025, to select the winners. The prizes were awarded to qualifying programs to assist with each program’s continued efforts to promote the importance and value of surveying licensure.
Profiles of the winning programs will be posted as available at ncees.org/surveyingaward.