WERC Environmental Design Contest

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New Mexico State University's WERC Environmental Design Contest is a competition that brings students, industry, and government together to create innovative solutiongs to real-world environmental challenges.

🧪👏WERC Bench-Scale Demonstrations!Day 3 of the WERC Environmental Design Contest saw teams presenting their bench-scale ...
05/14/2026

🧪👏WERC Bench-Scale Demonstrations!

Day 3 of the WERC Environmental Design Contest saw teams presenting their bench-scale demonstrations to our wonderful team of judges! The effort each team put into these projects became very apparent as our judges examined each of the teams' amazing presentations!

🔥 Poster Presentations! The 2nd day of the 36th annual WERC Environmental Design Contest gave teams a chance to present ...
05/14/2026

🔥 Poster Presentations!

The 2nd day of the 36th annual WERC Environmental Design Contest gave teams a chance to present their posters and network with judges. Thanks to all of the judges and staff who helped make our event a success!

🤩 As Day 1 of the 36th annual WERC Contest kicked off, teams were treated to an amazing performance from 🎵 As they prep...
04/14/2026

🤩 As Day 1 of the 36th annual WERC Contest kicked off, teams were treated to an amazing performance from 🎵 As they prepared for their technical presentations, teams also had opportunities to present their flash pitch ideas. At dinner, they heard from our wonderful WERC team!

📈Can’t wait for the events to come as we continue through Day 2 and beyond!

✨ Thanks so much to all the sponsors, staff, volunteers, and judges that make this event possible!

📝Task 7 allows a more open-ended approach our teams' environmental project. Here they can propose their own ideas to add...
04/14/2026

📝Task 7 allows a more open-ended approach our teams' environmental project. Here they can propose their own ideas to address real-world challenges. For our 2026 competition, these activities include Passive Sampler to Detect Vibrio, SPACE-CRYO, Ion Propulsion and Solar & Weather Balloon Technologies, Removing Microplastics from Impacted Stormwater, and Low-Energy, Nature-Based Graywater Reuse.

✨ Thanks to our sponsors for this project!

Sponsors: Pettigrew & Associates and Los Alamos Technical Associates

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.

werc.nmsu.edu

🌧️💲In an effort to make a positive impact on low-income communities, WERC's "Open-Source Environmental Monitors" project...
04/11/2026

🌧️💲In an effort to make a positive impact on low-income communities, WERC's "Open-Source Environmental Monitors" project tasks students with designing low cost sensors that can effectively monitor potential danger in air quality, food contamination, and other environmental areas.

✨ Thanks to our sponsor for this project!
Diamond Sponsor: NM Space Grant Consortium

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
werc.nmsu.edu

💧☀️Up to 12 barrels of saline water are produced with every barrel of oil that's pumped from the ground. WERC's "Produce...
04/10/2026

💧☀️Up to 12 barrels of saline water are produced with every barrel of oil that's pumped from the ground. WERC's "Produced Water: Enhanced Ev***ration" project functions to find ways to responsibly ev***rate this byproduct, with eventual goals of finding ways to beneficially resuse this waste water.

✨ Thanks to our sponsors for this project!
Platinum Sponsor: Chevron
Silver Sponsor: NGL Water Solutions

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
werc.nmsu.edu

🌙🚀 As NASA’s Artemis Program to develop a long-term presence on the Moon for humanity, vital resources like food, water,...
04/09/2026

🌙🚀 As NASA’s Artemis Program to develop a long-term presence on the Moon for humanity, vital resources like food, water, and medicine need to withstand extreme temperature and pressure conditions. WERC's "Survive the Night - Logistics Containers in Space" project aims to give these astronauts the containers needed to reliably store these important resources in extraterrestrial environments.

✨ Thanks to our sponsors for this project!
💎Diamond Sponsor: NM Space Grant Consortium
Technical Sponsors: Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
werc.nmsu.edu

💧🪨The WERC "Bio-inspired Critical Mineral Recovery from Mining Waters" project functions to extract critical minerals (l...
04/08/2026

💧🪨The WERC "Bio-inspired Critical Mineral Recovery from Mining Waters" project functions to extract critical minerals (like copper) from previously underutilized mining waters. This process has positive effects on the green economy, supply chains, and even national security!

✨ Thanks to our sponsor for this project!
Platinum Sponsor: Freeport-McMoRan

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
werc.nmsu.edu

☀️🌧️Ev***ration in inland powerplants leads to the loss of hundreds millions of gallons of water yearly. The WERC "Power...
04/07/2026

☀️🌧️Ev***ration in inland powerplants leads to the loss of hundreds millions of gallons of water yearly. The WERC "Power Plants: Recovering Water from Cooling Towers" project tackles this problem by working on a water v***r recovery system which has the potential to substantially reduce water loss from these ev***rative processes!

✨ Thanks to our sponsors for this project!
Platinum Sponsor: City of Las Cruces
Technical Sponsor: El Paso Electric Co.

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
werc.nmsu.edu

💧🌫️ Reverse Osmosis (RO) is one of the go-to's for treating water, but the brine it produces can be difficult to dispose...
04/06/2026

💧🌫️ Reverse Osmosis (RO) is one of the go-to's for treating water, but the brine it produces can be difficult to dispose of in dry areas. WERC's "After RO: Brine Management in the Desert" project works to provide innovative solutions for a wider application of RO in dry regions.

✨ Thanks to our sponsors for this project!
Sponsors: Hazen and Sawyer; Souder, Miller, & Assoc.
Technical Sponsors: USDA, El Paso Water

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15, 2026 at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
werc.nmsu.edu

👷⚡️ El Paso Electric Co. has helped develop the WERC Power Plants: Recovering Water from Cooling Towers project by provi...
04/04/2026

👷⚡️ El Paso Electric Co. has helped develop the WERC Power Plants: Recovering Water from Cooling Towers project by providing hands-on support to our university students as a technical sponsor. By doing this, they show their goals of incorporating innovative, efficient power generation capabilities, pursuing renewable energy opportunities, and integrating technology solutions to use energy more efficiently and reduce their carbon footprint.

🔋🌱New Mexico State University's 36th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest takes place April 12-15th at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. The WERC Environmental Design Contest, founded in 1991, is a national competition that brings students, industry, and government together to solve real-world environmental challenges.

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