Congratulations to the 2026 Competition Winners!
1st Place - University of Tennessee: Abby Worth, Andrea Khounmy, Breanna Larson, Lily Hague, Meila Hamm
Automated Soil Pore-water Integrated Retrieval
1st Place - North Carolina State University: Payton Bell, Madalyn Sorensen, Anisha Sivayogan, Jacob Delos Santos
Community-Driven Stormwater Infrastructure for the City of Wilson
3rd Place – Michigan State Univeristy: Miles Morman, Neha Patel, Joe Pelkey, Megan Ransler, Ryan Wrublewski
Restoration of Michigan State University's Farm Lane Bioretention Site for Stormwate Management
The purpose of the competition is to encourage undergraduate students to participate in the design of a relevant engineering project and to provide an arena of professional competition for environmentally and biologically related design projects. This competition is complementary to the AGCO National Design Competition, which focuses on agricultural and food related projects, while Gunlogson focuses on environmentally and biologically related projects.
The competition consists of two parts: (1) Submission of a design report to be judged by an expert panel, and (2) Participation by the three teams earning the highest report scores in a presentation competition at the ASABE Annual International Meeting. Awards will be based on the overall score, which is a composite of project, written, and oral scores.
Awards will be presented at the ASABE Annual International Meeting awards program. Cash awards of $1,250, $1,000 and $750 will be presented to the first, second and third place entries.
All entries must be submitted to awards@asabe.org by May 15.
2024 Competition Rules & Regulations Entry Form
Past Winners
2025: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2022: University of Arkansas
2021: Virginia Tech
2020: University of Arkansas
2019: University of Tennessee-Knoxville
2018: North Carolina State University
2017: University of Tennessee - Knoxville
2016: University of Kentucky
2015: University of Tennessee, Kansas State University
2014: University of Tennessee
2013: University of Arkansas
2012: University of Tennessee
2011: Michigan State University
2010: University of Tennessee
2009: McGill University
2008: University of Wisconsin