This year, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) hosted a Student Video Competition.  The theme of the 2015-16 competition was “Environmental Engineers Protect Public and Ecological Health.”

The AEESP Student Video Competition sought to highlight environmental engineering and science to increase awareness about the field and encourage young people to learn more about stewardship of water, land, air, mineral, and energy resources.  The competition was open to undergraduate and graduate students studying environmental engineering and science worldwide.

Ten teams from around the country submitted videos on a diverse set of topics.  Judging was conducted by a panel of environmental engineering and science faculty, as well as K-12 science educators.  Videos were evaluated based on originality and creativity, content accuracy, and potential to motivate middle and high school students to pursue a career in environmental engineering and science.

The top three videos, which include prizes of $1,000, $750, and $500, respectively, were:

1. UMBC, “What do Environmental Engineers do?”
2. Virginia Tech, “The Flint Water Study Team (Virginia Tech) | An ode to Environmental Engineers and their field”
3. Yale University, “The Work of an Environmental Engineer”

In addition, three honorable mentions were awarded:

• Stanford University, “The world without environmental engineers”
• University of California Riverside, “The Salton Sea: Obstacles and Opportunities in Environmental Engineering and Science”
• University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, “Environmental Engineers: Heroes of Our Future”

We hope that you enjoy these videos and share them widely to promote the general public’s understanding of environmental engineering and science.  They have also been uploaded to AEESP's YouTube Page.

AEESP Membership and Demographics Committee

Retaining Engineers Through Research Entrepreneurship and Advanced-materials Training (RETREAT)

The High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) at the Florida State University is hosting a summer training program in Nanomaterials and Processing Engineering. The Diversity in Research and Engineering of Advanced Materials (DREAM) Training program, sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab Munitions Directorate (AFRL RW) at Eglin Air Force Base, will provide provide undergraduate and GRADUATE U.S. citizens from the under-represented groups in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, the opportunity to enhance their research experience in Science and Engineering.

Meet Theodora,

She is a Chemical Engineering major who spent last summer working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg. Her summer internship involved designing and running her own experiments to add information to the database of the Soft Lithography Lab at NIST.

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the CS Matters in Maryland project and the Maryland State Department of Education will jointly host a CE21-Maryland Summit for Computing Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) campus in Baltimore, Maryland. This event invites the attendance of teachers, administrators, legislators, industry leaders, and others who have an interest in expanding computer science in Maryland schools. UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski will be the summit’s keynote speaker.

Register here for the Maryland computing education summit. The early registration deadline for this event is February 29. Participants who register by the early deadline will receive a confirmation email no later than March 12 indicating whether your registration is confirmed. Late registrations will be accepted and confirmed on a rolling basis. Walk-in registration will be available if capacity or cancellations permit. All registrations are subject to available capacity at the meeting venue.

More information including the schedule is available here.

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the CS Matters in Maryland project and the Maryland State Department of Education will jointly host a CE21-Maryland Summit for Computing Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) campus in Baltimore, Maryland. This event invites the attendance of teachers, administrators, legislators, industry leaders, and others who have an interest in expanding computer science in Maryland schools. UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski will be the summit’s keynote speaker.

Register here for the Maryland computing education summit. The early registration deadline for this event is February 29. Participants who register by the early deadline will receive a confirmation email no later than March 12 indicating whether your registration is confirmed. Late registrations will be accepted and confirmed on a rolling basis. Walk-in registration will be available if capacity or cancellations permit. All registrations are subject to available capacity at the meeting venue.

More information including the schedule is available here.