Promotes involvement through the support of student events such as WERC, resume books, and reduced fees for conferences. Supports EESS by providing environmental professionals for guidance concerning educational speakers, lectures, and field trips. WERC stands for Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium. It is the only national competition for environmental engineering students in the nation. Students are presented with a real-life environmental problem to solve, and are judged on how well that task is completed.
Students compete each Spring in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The funds from EESS support MSU's WERC team and its success. EESS host professionals from industry, local and federal government to speak about their various environmental experiences. Past speakers from Capital Consultants, Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Natural Resources, and Environmental Protection Agency. Some of the EESS sponsored field trips include visits to Dow Chemical in Midland, the East Lansing Wastewater Treatment Plant, East Lansing's Combined Sewer Overflow Project, the Granger Landfill in Lansing, Dart Container in Mason, and the East Lansing-Meridian Water Authority water treatment plant. Most recently members of EESS went on a cruise on the Kalamazoo River for hands-on experience in water quality sampling aboard the W.G. Jackson.