Plumbing & Mechanical recently interviewed incoming MCAA President Steve Dawson, president of Bloomington, Ind.-based Harrell-Fish. Dawson graduated from Purdue University in 1991 with a mechanical engineering degree. Although he was hired by Joe Harrell as an estimator and project manager, Harrell wanted him to learn mechanical contracting from the ground up. Dawson joined the United Association Local 136 as a pre-apprentice and went out on jobsites to work. In 1998, at the age of 28, Dawson assumed the role of president at HFI.