3M was founded in 1902 as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. While it began as a mining firm, a focus on innovation led the company to create products to help it do things more easily and efficiently—and these proved to be immensely popular with everyone. 3M has gone on to make over 55,000 products, […]

Burns & McDonnell was founded in 1898 by Clinton S. Burns and Robert E. McDonnell, who set out to provide sanitary sewers, water works, and electric lights to cities in Kansas and Wyoming. Burns & McDonnell has since grown into a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm. It’s one of America’s leading […]

Kimley-Horn and Associates is a highly innovative engineering design firm that specializes in residential, retail, and mixed-use land planning, urban development, environmental development, and transportation systems. Kimley-Horn’s numerous projects include parking and runway work at the nation’s busiest airports. Founded in 1967 by two transportation engineers, Kimley-Horn remains a private company. In fact, Kimley-Horn is […]

Siemens was founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and precision mechanic Johann Georg Halske, who created Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske (Telegraph Construction Company of Siemens & Halske), a 10-man Berlin company that manufactured electrical telegraphs. Since then Siemens has grown into a global engineering and technology powerhouse with 343,000 workers in 190 countries, […]