APO Student Awards

Alpha Phi Omega

The Alpha Phi Omega Engineering Fraternity (APO) was an engineering organization founded in 1919 at the Texas College of Mines & Metallurgy. It was a social fraternity for Engineering and Geology students that engaged in many school spirited activities during their St. Patrick celebration. Those same celebrations are driving today's longest-running tradition on the UTEP campus, TCM Day.

The members of APO all have great stories about great times in college. With the help of a past APO advisor, the APOs were able to create an endowment in 1990 to recognize students for their campus and college involvement. Every year, two students are recognized with plaques in honor of two former APO members who became UTEP faculty: Professor Walter R. Roser and Dean Eugene M. Thomas. Other students are recognized with a plaque honoring a rotating list of former APOs.