Sustaining South Texas: Environmental Engineering Exhibit

Christopher Olivarez | Co- Sports Editor

On Friday, June 23, at Conner Museum, the Texas A&M UniversityKingsville (TAMUK) environmental engineering program will be officially open to the public.

The exhibit will have multiple projects that were built by students and those who visit the exhibit will be able to see how each project works in their own unique way. It will show how this will be a step in the right direction for the environment.

“We are hoping that our students can look through and start thinking what kind of thing they can do and what kind of work they can contribute to the future,”

Professor Dr. Jennifer Ren said. “We hope to promote this kind of activity and will encourage students to spread their interests.”

Dr. David Ramirez, the chair of the Environmental Engineering Program at TAMUK, shared his reasons as to what gave them the idea to have this showcase.

“We want to showcase to our community what we do here and of course make the public aware of our program and the high levels of research that we do and one of the outcomes was to have a display built by our senior students in a museum setting,” Dr. Ramirez said.

With this, there is hope that this showcase will shed some light on the program and capture the attention of the general public as well as middle school and high school students who may have an interest in pursuing a degree in environmental engineering.

“We plan to showcase some design models that students have done throughout their senior year and motivate students to be interested in our program,” Administrative Associate Natalynn Luera said.

The exhibit not only features things for students still in high school and adults, but for younger children as well.

The exhibit will be a great way to show young- er children the exciting things you can do as an environmental engineer. “I think it will really attract them. I have small children so I know that my daughter thinks it is really cool to see scientific stuff,” Luera said.