(left to right)
Gary Storm, Thornton Tomasetti
Steve Hofmeister, Thornton Tomasetti (Chair and Sponsor)

Jeff Brizendine, AECOM
Charlie LePage, Cook Flatt & Strobel

John Weiskopf, DLR Group

Joe Marsh, Terracon Consultants

Cliff Greenlief, Walter P. Moore & Associates

Mike Odrowski, Tetra Tech

Jay Steinmetz, Kiewit Power Engineers

Jim Lewis, Black & Veatch

Drew Rimmer, Henderson Engineers

Mike Fenske, Burns & McDonnell

Kevin Honomichl, BHC Rhodes

Mike Owens, Selective Site Consultants

John Skubal, Kaw Valley Engineers

Darren Hartman, Thornton Tomasetti

Why Kansas City Remains an Engineering Stronghold

If there is one industry that deserves more positive attention than it gets, it is engineering. While the financial and legal sectors, among others, garner most of the headlines, the engineers quietly create the infrastructure that allows the presses to roll and the professionals to get to work on time.

On a pleasant day in early-November, leaders of the engineering community came together at an Ingram’s Industry Outlook assembly to set the record straight. Ably chairing the event was Steve Hofmeister, manager of the Midwest region of Thornton Tomasetti, the international structural engineering firm that sponsored the assembly.