{"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 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> engineering undergrads achieve professional certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_72742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72742\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manoa-engineering-prevedouros-p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manoa-engineering-prevedouros-p.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manoa-engineering-prevedouros-p-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panos Prevedouros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than two dozen students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cee.hawaii.edu\/\">civil and environmental engineering program<\/a> (CEE) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> became Envision Sustainability Professionals (ENV SPs) before the end of the fall 2017 semester.<\/p>\n<p>All the students were enrolled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a>&#8216;s <abbr>CEE<\/abbr> 444 course on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>To become <abbr>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<p>The exam was developed at Princeton University and is administered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainableinfrastructure.org\/\">Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Encouraged by discussions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asce.org\/event\/2017\/2017-national-civil-engineering-department-heads-conference\/\">National Civil Engineering Department Heads Conference<\/a> last summer, Civil Engineering Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cee.hawaii.edu\/faculty-staff-main\/1-department-chair\/panos\/\"><strong>Panos Prevedouros<\/strong><\/a> contacted local <abbr>ENV SP<\/abbr> engineer Jon Young and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design engineer Amber Takenouchi about presenting lectures to his <abbr>CEE<\/abbr> 444 students.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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 <abbr>CEE<\/abbr> 444).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of the students chose to take the exam. Prevedouros was ecstatic at the results.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Justin Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The civil and environmental engineering students became Envision Sustainability Professionals before the end of the fall 2017 semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[179,182,660,9],"class_list":["post-72725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72725"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109455,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72725\/revisions\/109455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}