14th ESW Annual Conference
Borderless Sustainability
April 4th - 7th, 2019 | El Paso, TX
The 14th ESW Annual Conference took place at the University of Texas at El Paso from April 4 - April 7. We had over 250 students, professionals, and industry leaders in El Paso to explore how we can expand our work to truly build a better world. How does sustainability and design change across cultures? Are there universal aspects to design? How do we build cultural competency in engineers? How do we take civic engineering to international heights? Checkout highlights of speakers, sessions and the entire weekend below.
Speakers
Octaviana Trujillo
Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies, Northern Arizona University
Keynote Speaker
Anthony Guerrero
Director of Facilities and Sustainability, NRDC
Keynote Speaker
Michelle Rucker
The Mars Integration Group, NASA
Keynote Speaker
Andy Farias
Lead of Vision, The Giving Project
Mobilizing Hope & Restoring Futures
Austin Izzo
Student, University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo ICECAP: A case study of how to create a climate action plan
Lauren Baldwin
Director of Sustainability, Creosote Collaborative
Building Resilience on the Border
Sessions
Sustaining our Desert Beauty with Strategic Intent
Water Matters: Rainwater Harvesting in Colonia Las Pampas
Sustainable Water Treatment: Finding Ways to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Water Resources
Building Resilience on the Border
Sustainable Infrastructure and Development
Mobilizing Hope and Restoring Futures
Interdisciplinary Sustainability Discussion Panel
A Tale of Two Cities: Point-of-Use Drinking Water Treatment
Challenges and Opportunities of Sustaining Agriculture in Drylands: An Environmental Perspective
Engineering a Circular City: El Paso, TX
Building Better Designers and Societies through the Practice of Diary Writing
International Service Projects
Whither Environmental Cooperation in North America
Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Integrating Ecosystem Restoration into Water Management in the Pasa del Norte Region: Rio Bosque Wetlands Park
The Geopolitics of Energy
Regulation's Rickety Bridge: Lessons from El Paso ASARCO
University at Buffalo ICECAP
Awards
Outstanding Chapters
Outstanding Members
University at Buffalo
University of Akron
University of Texas, El Paso
Bri Goold (RIT)
Keira Higgins (RIT)
Austin Izzo (University at Buffalo)
Ariana Forsythe (UT Austin)
Kiyomi Takemoto (UC Irvine)
Congratulations to out first ever People's Choice Award recipients!
Fog Scrubbing
Cal Poly SLO
Mathis Weyrich and Maya Wharton
Conference Highlights
Conference Sponsors
