34 th Annual WERC Environmental Design Contest
Task 1: Stormwater Management for Community Resilience
A design contest involving engineering systems that address the water, energy, and climate nexus. Undergraduate students are exposed to an engineering request for proposal by going through the full engineer design process. The competition entails a poster presentation, an oral presentation, an elevator speech about the design, and a demonstration of the bench-scale model.
Image Credit: Caroline Reed
Tiana Deloney
Engineer
Environmental Engineering
td573@nau.edu
Image Credit: Tiana Deloney
Matt Helms
Senior Engineer
Environmental Engineering
mdh463@nau.edu
Image Credit: Tiana Deloney
Zach Lyon
Engineer
Civil Engineering
zwl8@nau.edu
Image Credit: Tiana Deloney
Caroline Reed
Engineering Technician
Environmental Engineering
cer389@nau.edu
Aguatierra Engineering
From left to right: Tiana Deloney, Caroline Reed, Zach Lyon, Matt Helms
Image Credit: Andres Garcia Rico
Technical Advisor
Tom Loomis, P.E.
Mr. Loomis is a civil engineer with over 51 years of experience, 25 years as a private consulting
engineer, and 26 years in public service for government agencies. He spent the last 33 years of
his career dedicated to the floodplain management profession. He has prepared floodplain
delineation studies on thousands of square miles of watershed and hundreds of stream miles of
watercourses in the arid southwest. His expertise includes subdivision design, litigation support and expert witness services, drainage improvements, airport improvements, wastewater
treatment, potable water systems, bridge design, and construction management. Mr. Loomis
served as Special Projects Branch Manager for the Engineering Division of the Flood Control
District of Maricopa County for 17 years until retiring in December 2017. He then served as a
part-time senior civil engineer until April of 2022. He is a registered Civil Engineer and Land
Surveyor in Arizona, and a Certified Floodplain Manager. Mr. Loomis served on the Industrial
Advisory Board for NAU Civil and Environmental Engineering program for 27 years.
loomist71@outlook.com
