{"id":72725,"date":"2017-12-27T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72725"},"modified":"2020-01-15T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T02:23:43","slug":"engineering-undergrads-achieve-professional-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/27\/engineering-undergrads-achieve-professional-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"26 UH<\/abbr> engineering undergrads achieve professional certification"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Panos Prevedouros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than two dozen students in the civil and environmental engineering program<\/a> (CEE) at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> became Envision Sustainability Professionals (ENV SPs) before the end of the fall 2017 semester.<\/p>\n

All the students were enrolled in the College of Engineering<\/a>‘s CEE<\/abbr> 444 course on infrastructure.<\/p>\n

To become ENV SP<\/abbr>s, they passed a comprehensive assessment of sustainability credits that are applicable to any type of infrastructure project, including new projects and expansion or rehabilitation projects.<\/p>\n

The exam was developed at Princeton University and is administered by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Encouraged by discussions at the National Civil Engineering Department Heads Conference<\/a> last summer, Civil Engineering Professor Panos Prevedouros<\/strong><\/a> contacted local ENV SP<\/abbr> engineer Jon Young and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design engineer Amber Takenouchi about presenting lectures to his CEE<\/abbr> 444 students.<\/p>\n

Both had facilitated an envision course in February and were willing to help. They created a 40-question homework assignment and, with Prevedouros, prepared and presented three lectures.<\/p>\n

The students were given a choice. If they took the envision exam and passed it by December 12, it would stand in for their final exam. Prevedouros emphasized to the students that this would be a personal decision to build up their own records and not a course requirement (the final exam is 30 percent of the grade in CEE<\/abbr> 444).<\/p>\n

Nearly all of the students chose to take the exam. Prevedouros was ecstatic at the results.<\/p>\n

“I thought that this addition to the course would have been a small success if about a dozen students tried the exam and maybe half of them passed it,” he said. “It would have been a clear success if just ten passed, but 26 of our undergraduates now have a professional certification before they actually have their degrees.”<\/p>\n

—By Justin Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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