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 of their time in college. With the help of past APO advisors, the APO are now responsible for an endowment that recognizes students for their campus and college involvement since 1991. Students who have been recognized with plaques in honor of two APO members who became UTEP faculty: Professor Walter R. Roser and Dean Eugene M. Thomas; the third plaque honors a rotating list of former APOs.