Prizes are awarded for papers dealing with water pollution control, water quality problems, water related concerns or hazardous wastes. The competition is open to any current or recently graduated college student. Selection of winning papers is based on the relevancy of subject matter and originality of thoughts, concepts or solutions. There are four categories of awards: (1) Operations, (2) Bachelors, (3) Masters and (4) Ph.D. with prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250 in each category.

The WEF Undergraduate Student Paper Competition is intended to promote the education of undergraduate students in water pollution control, water quality problems, water-related concerns, hazardous wastes or related areas. It also is intended to provide an opportunity for national recognition of undergraduate students. Further details on the WEF Student Paper Competition can be viewed online at http://www.wef.org/MemberAssoc/MbrAssocProg/studentactivities.jhtml

The CSWEA Public Education Section Chair will select the best paper from their state. Out of these top three papers, the CSWEA Public Education Committee Chair and each Section Chair will then select the best paper and submit it to WEF for the national Student Paper Competition.

The winner from each state will have his/her travel and expenses to the CSWEA annual conference subsidized by CSWEA.

The winner from the CSWEA region will have their paper published in Wisillminn (CSWEA Magazine), and his/her participation in the national conference (WEFTEC) will be subsidized by CSWEA.

Award Contact Eric Lecuyer, Executive Director 3809 Shenandoah Drive Crystal Lake, IL 60012 Phone: 815-954-2714 Fax: 815-356-3847 erlec@prodigy.net

     Presented to one student per year from the host state. Candidate is selected by the Department Chair and must be enrolled in a full time study program is environmental or sanitary engineering at the Master’s level, or above, and must completed, or in the process of completing, at least the first semester or quarter of the graduate program. Recipient receives cash award, paid one year student membership and paid expenses to annual meeting at which award is given. For more information, contact:

Academic Excellence Sub-Committee Chair Rusty Schroedel Earth Tech 4135 Technology Pkw Sheboygan, WI 53081 Phone: 920-451-2719 Fax: 920-458-0537 rusty.schreodel@earthtech.com

     Recognizes the success of a member associations safety program in a local wastewater works. The purpose is to stimulate effective safety programs and to encourage the collection of injury statistics on a national level. Criteria includes cooperation with other organizations to promote safety, methods used to publicize the safety program, safety materials and visual aids used and collection and use of injury data.

For more information contact:

Eric Lecuyer, Executive Director 3809 Shenandoah Drive Crystal Lake, IL 60012 Phone: 815-954-2714 Fax: 815-356-3847 erlec@prodigy.net