A&WMA recognizes outstanding students who are pursuing courses of study and research leading to careers in air quality, waste management, and environmental policy, law or sustainability related to air pollution and waste.  This includes student scholarships, thesis/dissertation awards, awards for best student papers and posters, and prizes for our environmental challenge competition.   Winners of all awards will be highlighted in the Association’s EM magazine.  Awards will be presented at the student awards ceremony during the Annual Conference & Exhibition.

The Student Poster Awards recognizes student posters to be the best amongst those considered in the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral categories.  Full-time Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctoral students are encouraged to participate in the Air & Waste Management Association’s Student Poster Competition during its Annual Conference & Exhibition.  Students must be the primary author of the abstract associated with the poster.  They must present the poster during the annual conference to be eligible for this competition.

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The ECi is a team competition in which students at all levels - undergraduates and Master's and Ph.D. candidates - present a solution to an environmental challenge based on the experiences of our members.  In responding to the challenge, entrants must consider regulatory approaches, political and community issues, and technical and scientific solutions.  The ECi showcases students' abilities while enhancing their professional experience - allowing them to catch the eye of some of the most influential leaders in the industry.  In addition to developing professional contacts and potential mentors, student teams are eligible to win cash prizes.

More information coming soon at www.ace2012.awma.org.

Each year, the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) awards scholarships to outstanding, full-time graduate students who are pursuing courses of study and research leading to careers in these areas:

• Air Quality
• Waste Management
• Environmental Management
• Policy
• Law
• Sustainability

Click here for more information on A&WMA's Scholarships

In addition to scholarships, A&WMA acknowledges up to two exceptional masters theses and up to two exceptional doctoral dissertations each year.   Nominations shall be made by the student's faculty advisors, who are members of A&WMA, only.  Works nominated shall be original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the fields of:

• Air Quality
• All Types of Waste
• Sustainability/Management Pertaining to Air Quality or Waste

The goal of the NTX Environmental Education Committee is to develop and mentor student chapters at universities and community colleges, administer scholarships, promote environmental education and networking between students and environmental professionals.  Through the development and mentoring of student chapters the education committee seeks to provide opportunities for student research, internships and job networking.  The education committee administers scholarships through an application process.  The committee promotes job networking by providing an avenue for students to post resumes, network with employers and learn about job opportunities.  The committee promotes environmental education by participating in Earthday, Science Fairs and Special Programs.  The committee's current focus is to develop new student chapters in North Texas.

The Education Committee is embarking on our campaign to form Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) student chapters and are looking for industry/regulator/college faculty members volunteers.  The committee had an initial meeting on May 7, 2010 (meeting minutes, 23 KB pdf file) from which several ideas for student chapter involvement with NTX A&WMA evolved.  Those ideas have been put into practice including driving students to selected chapter meetings and completion of our first mini-research project.  The UTA student Chapter was awarded a mini research project from Risk Management and Engineering Ltd. (RME) to help identify the quantity of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide emissions that could occur from a spill of ammonium polysulfide.   The project background and request (7.8 MB pdf file) from David Weeks of RME and Ms. Roja Haritha Gangupomu's (UTA Student) report (0.6 MB pdf file) are provided.

Action Plan:

1. Appoint NTX AWMA Chapter school liaisons.
2. Liaisons find faculty advisor.
3. Liaisons work with faculty advisor to charter student chapter.
4. Liaisons work with student chapter to ensure chapter remains viable after 1st year.

Specific functions of the faculty advisor and chapter liaisons are provided in the DRAFT Student Chapter Development training program (34 KB Powerpoint file).

The North Texas Chapter has participated in the local Regional Science Fairs for many years.  We send a delegation of volunteer judges to review the Junior and Senior level environmental projects.  From these we select a winner from each level to receive a cash gift and a certificate.   That’s the simple mechanics of the day.

The real action is seeing these young adults stand up to explain and defend their projects.  It’s always interesting and entertaining to watch their minds spin into action and try to put into words their ideas and findings.

This year we will have judges at both the Fort Worth and the Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fairs.  They are both held the last week end in February.  Fort Worth’s fair will be at the Will Rogers Memorial Center with judging either on the 28th or the 1st.  Dallas’s is in Fair Park on the 27th.   We already have a small group put together to judge the fairs, however there is always room for more!  

If interested, please contact Larry Hale, 214-623-1586.

See how North Texas A&WMA participated in the DFW 2010 Science & Engineering Fairs!