2020 Environmental Design Contest Tasks

Watch for more information about our new Flash Talk Competition

Helping schools meet new ABET Student Outcome 3–Teams will give a 3-minute Flash Talk to members of the local community, engineering professionals, faculty, and other students.

Track A:  Government Need

• 2020 Task 1-PV Module Efficiency   Task 1 FAQs
• NextEra Energy is providing the modules for this task. Let us know ASAP that your team will participate.

Track B:  Internet of Things (IOT) for Environmental Applications

• 2020 Task 2-Wireless Soil-Moisture Sensors    Task 2 FAQs

Track C:  Industry Need

• 2020 Task 3-Phycoremediation of Heavy Metals     Task 3 FAQs
• 2020 Task 4-Fluoride Water Treatment and Recovery       Task 4 FAQs
• Note that Tasks 3 and 4 were updated in early September.

Track D:  Environmental Public Health

• 2020 Task 5-Produced Water-REE Recovery & Clean Water-NGL(Updated 1/22/19)    Task 5 FAQs

Track E:  Open Task

• 2020 Task 6–Open Task–Teams identify a current real-world environmental challenge that can be analytically validated at the Contest.
  Note new Test Plan due date: February 3, 2020.  Task 6 FAQs

The 2020 WERC Environmental Design Contest in Las Cruces, NM. April 5-8, 2020.

Registration opens mid-late November 2019.

Archives of the WERC Environmental Design Contests

Here you can find tasks for previous years, as well as the teams that won them.

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