Contact

Progam Contact

M. Ginger Scarbrough, PhD

Director, WERC Environmental Design Contest

 WERC Email | 575-646-8171

The Design Contest is an IEEE Conference!

2025 Waste-Management and Education Research Conference

  • All written reports submitted to Design Contest judges will be considered for publication in IEEE Xplore.
  • Approval for publication is based on judges’ review of the paper.
  • Invitation to publish in the Conference Proceedings will be announced via email.
  • Instructions for submitting the IEEE-formatted and revised paper will be emailed to winning teams. 
  • A team need not win a prize to be invited to publish in the proceedings.
  • Faculty Advisors may be included in the list of authors.
  • See IEEE Paper Requirements (below) for formatting guidelines

 

Waste-Management and Education Research Conference Proceedings

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2025 Publication Schedule:

    1. March 31: Abstract and Technical Report due
    2. April 22: Invitation to submit IEEE Paper (Announced at Awards Ceremony)
    3. May 5: IEEE Paper Draft due (see requirements, right)
    4. May 5-11: Paper reviewed
    5. May 12: Teams sent revision requests for inclusion in full IEEE paper
    6. May 19: Full IEEE paper due, with revisions
    7. June 5: Teams notified of either: paper acceptance or need for revisions.
    8. June 12: All final corrected papers submitted.
    9. June 13: Teams notified of: acceptance (if not previously notified), need for copyright transfer and PDF upload. 
    10. June 18: Copyright transfers complete, papers cleared by plagiarism checker, teams upload PDFs to IEEE site. (instructions will be emailed to you). 
    11. June 19: Conference end date: Papers submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. 

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IEEE Paper Requirements

  • Limit of 12 pages
  • Use the IEEE Xplore Format Template, below.
  • Address all comments made by judges during the contest (yes, the reviewers will check this)
  • Focus on the technical aspects and remove the economic analysis.
  • Include process-flow diagrams with mass/energy balances, as appropriate.


IEEE Xplore Format Template

Go to IEEE for LaTeX Formats

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Publication Fees and Registration Discount

Per-paper fee for publication: $50

Fees Sponsored by: El Paso Chapter of IEEE

Teams will not be charged the per-paper fee, thanks to the generosity of the El Paso, TX Chapter of IEEE.

 

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