Please join the CNRS, Dean's office in congratulating our outstanding Environmental Resources Engineering students ~

For the last 16 years, student teams from the HSU Environmental Resources Engineering (ERE) department have participated in a four-day long math modeling competition.  The competition consists of the Mathematical Modeling Contest (MCM) and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP).   Competing against nearly 17,000 teams from thousands of universities, each team produced a report summarizing their solution to one of six possible problems.

This year, a record six ERE student teams entered in the competition that began on Thursday evening, January 19 and ended on Monday evening, January 23.  Four of the six ERE teams were awarded the score of Honorable Mention, with fewer than 12% of the other teams scoring higher, and approximately 50% of the other teams scoring lower.  One team received a ranking of Meritorious Winners, with fewer than 1% of the teams scoring higher.   Finally, the team of Yaad Rana, Marcela Jimenez, and Joshua Martinez received the highest ranking possible, Outstanding Winner!  This team also received the Rachel Carson award and the Sigma Scholarship award which provides a $3,000 prize to each team member.

Way to go and congratulations!