Get Ready for WERC: Live Q&A Sessions for All Teams

Join us to get your questions answered.

If you have contacted us to let us know you will be participating in the 2026 contest, we have sent you an availability poll. We will schedule the webinars to meet as many schedules as possible and post recordings here.

Hosted by WERC Program Manager, Dr. Ginger Scarbrough
Guest speakers: Previous students and faculty

• Dates/Times Coming Soon!

Join us at the 2026 WERC Environmental Design Contest

The contest is modeled after the engineering RFP. Students work on real-world tasks designed by our partners in industry and government. Teams build a working bench-scale apparatus, develop written and oral presentation skills, hone their teamwork skills, and discuss their designs with professional engineers.

Students participating in the last 35 years of the contest have gone on to work at the EPA, Chevron, become university professors, manage engineering firms and government agencies, and much more. Their memories of the WERC Environmental Design Contest bring them back as consultants, judges, and sponsors.