2020 Winners Announced! – View the Awards Ceremony
The Midwest Student Design Competition is intended to promote “real world and hands on” design experience for students interested in pursuing an education and/or career in water/wastewater engineering and sciences field. This year, the Midwest Student Design Competition will be held on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 as a virtual event. This is a unique opportunity for students at the college level to demonstrate their engineering skills and practices by researching and preparing a design for a water quality based project and presenting their project to water industry professionals.
There are three categories of Student Design Competitions available for students:
WEF Wastewater & Environmental Design Challenge
Introduction
Design Competition Guidelines
WEF Entry Form
Samara, Costa Rica Design Challenge
Introduction | GWS Entry Form
Design Competition Guidelines
General Information | Problem Statement
Detail Documents (Photos, Surveys, Soil Reports, Videos, etc)
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ENVIRONMENTAL
Christine Boland-Prom, Blake Bostwick, Rebekah Janquart, Jamie Nguyen, Julian Sonn and Jamie Sykora
“Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facility – Joyabaj, Guatemala” Milwaukee School of Engineering
GLOBAL WATER STEWARDSHIP
Sharon Castillo, Jafet Castro, Raul Garita, Nicolas Morales, Alejandro Morales, Maria Jesus Peralta, Lidia Rodriguez, Anotony Torres and Deilin Urena
“La Fortuna, Costa Rica Sewer and Treatment Design” TEC University, Costa Rica
Caitlyin Graeber, Nicole Heyniger, Rebecca Joseph, Grace Scarim and San Marie Thomson
“La Fortuna, Costa Rica Sewer and Treatment Design” Marquette University
2019 | Environmental Jinglin Duan, Jonathan Kolweier, Javier Mulero, Justin Shen and Alana Rosenbaum “Solutions for Houston Flooding” University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign Global Water Stewardship Miranda Durbin, Sydney Shaffer, Alexis Countyman, Jamie Sykora, Christine Boland-Prom, Guissel Davila, Rachel Montavon “Monteverde, Costa Rica Sewer and Treatment Design” Milwaukee School of Engineering |
2018 | Environmental Abdul Bashar "Integration of Biogas Water Wash and Struvite Recovery Process with MMSD's Jones Island WWTP" Global Water Stewardship Erik Papenfus, Joseph Lapastora, Jessica Zemen, Elizabeth Ebert "Palmar Sur, Costa Rica Sewer and Treatment Design" |
2017 | Andrew Szymaszek, Linjie Tang, Catherine Terando, Megan Wolfe University of Wisconsin - Platteville “Global Water Stewardship – Dominical, Costa Rica” |
2016 | Jill Vande Boom Milwaukee School of Engineering “Global Water Stewardship – Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica” |
2016 | Jordan Fure, Gage Thompson, Zachary Wallin, Titus Rubietta University of Wisconsin-Platteville "Global Water Stewardship-Bahia Ballena" |
2015 | Sarah Beam, Josh Koopmann, Bryce Corrigan University of Wisconsin – Platteville "Baraboo, Wisconsin Wastewater Treatment Facility Improvement Plan" |
2014 | Andrea Dunn, Sarah Walsh Marquette University |