ASCEOutstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA)
Running since 1960, ASCE's top project honour for civil engineering skill and contribution to society.
- Reach
- National
- Run by
- ASCE
- Disciplines
- Civil · Bridge & Structural
Who enters
Nominations come from ASCE sections, branches and member firms, for a completed project.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. ASCE publishes the current one.
- Judged as a whole rather than by category — on contribution to society, engineering skill and resourcefulness
The route, start to finish
- 01Nomination submitted to ASCE
- 02Shortlist of finalists announced
- 03One project named the year's Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not ASCE’s.
OCEA goes to one project a year nationally, so the pool of people who have worked on a winner is genuinely small. Treat it as a strong signal, and verify it — it is specific enough to check.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Principal Civil Engineer
- Structural Lead
- Program Manager
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA). The ASCE name and mark belong to ASCE, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.