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The future rests in the hands of today's youth. The responsibility to prepare them rests with us.

The Office of Engineering Outreach and Recruitment in the NMSU College of Engineering provides statewide engineering-based outreach and public service programs. Outreach services include:
Professional Development, Engineering Business Assistance, and STEM Outreach Programs.

06/15/2026

Coming Soon! 👀

WERC Environmental Design Contest 2027 tasks available online in July at WERC.nmsu.edu

📝Summaries will be posted by June 30
📖Full Task Statements will be posted by July 15

06/14/2026

🛜🔋 The WERC 2027 Info Webinar is happening next month! Open to all students and college faculty, our webinar will include engineers and faculty from all around the country! Make sure to take advantage of this opportunity while you have the chance!

⏰ July 9th and 15th at 12:30 p.m. (CDT)

ℹ️ Information can be found at WERC.nmsu.edu or at link in bio.

06/08/2026

The NM Middle School PREP Academy participants bring so much energy and creativity to their engineering design challenges. We are pleased to welcome them to campus! It’s going to be a great week!

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’ presentations!

05/04/2026

🔥 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 that helped make our event a success!

04/29/2026

☀️ Our winners for our City of Las Cruces sponsored Task 2 are UPENN 2 for the overall award and MTU 2 for the bench-scale demonstration! Congrats to our teams!

04/28/2026

💧✨ Big applause to our 2026 teams that won the Freeport-McMoRan sponsored awards! We are grateful to Freeport-McMoRan for their support sponsoring Task 3 and congratulations to all the teams!

🏆Awards:
Freeport-McMoRan Innovation in Sustainability Award - RPI 7
Task 3 Overall Winner - LSU 3
Task 3 Bench Winner - OHIO U

04/25/2026

✨ 🔋 Thanks so much to Chevron for sponsoring our Task 5 challenge. The winners of this event are BYU 5 for the best bench presentation and RPI 7 for the best overall!

04/24/2026

🎉 🚀 Congratulations to the winners of our New Mexico Space Grant Consortium sponsored awards!

💎New Mexico Space Grant has continued to support the WERC Environmental Design Contest as our Diamond Sponsor! Pushing students to innovate, we’d like to recognize the teams that have gone above and beyond in their projects!

In order:
NMSCG Award - NMSU 4
Task 4 Overall 1st Place - LSU 4
Task 4 Bench 1st Place - NMSU 4
Task 4 Overall 2nd Place - UI 4
Task 4 Bench 2nd Place - CMU 4
Task 6 Overall and Bench 1st Place - LSU 6
Task 6 Overall and Bench 2nd Place - CALPOLY 6

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04/16/2026

🏆🌳Tonight, teams were finally recognized for the massive amount of work they’ve put into their projects for the last year. We are so proud to see the effort and dedication these students have shown as they actively work to make the world a better, cleaner place! We are so thankful for the turnout at this event and hope to see everyone again next year!

As we wrap up our 36th annual WERC Environmental Design Contest, we wanted to once again thank our sponsors for their support in bringing this event to life. We couldn’t have done it without you! Big thanks to all of our sponsors, which include…

💎 Diamond: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium

✨ Platinum: Chevron; City of Las Cruces; Freeport-McMoRan

Silver: NGL Energy Water Solutions

Copper: Hazen and Sawyer; Souder, Miller & Associates

Iron: Jacobs; Pettigrew and Associates; Los Alamos Technical Associates

And to all of our technical sponsors that supported our teams!

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