Educational & Training Offerings

While research is important, the EEMI mission also contemplates a broad array of training and educational offerings. EEMI offers educational opportunities for leaders in government and industry to learn the value of solution approaches for achieving environmental, energy and sustainability goals. These solutions include protocols and criteria for addressing challenges and for achieving desired levels of performance and other goals. They focus primarily on achieving efficiencies and diffusing operational knowledge and control that result in tangible performance improvements.

EEMI coordinates several graduate certificate programs training opportunities for students to learn how to implement management systems, to achieve efficiencies, and to implement controls. For example, the course "Beyond Compliance: Next Generation Environmental Self Governance (EMSE 6992-14)" is a graduate-level course on implementing environmental and energy management systems offered through EEMI that is primarily based on the ISO 14000 and 50000 international standards. Another course, "Global Connections: Standards in Technology, Business, & Public Policy (EMSE 6992-08)" introduces students to the world of standards, standards organizations, and standards development. This inter-disciplinary, graduate-level course provides practicing professionals with state-of-the-art skills by developing the students’ knowledge and skills to operate effectively and provide leadership in the environmental and energy standards arena.

In addition to traditional classroom and online offerings, EEMI sponsors other learning events, such as symposia, colloquies, and salons to advance knowledge and acceptance of alternative strategies among potential users and policy advocates and creators. We believe that there are a high number of government and industry-based officials in the Washington, D.C. area that believe in the power and potential benefit of these alternative strategies. We believe the EEMI is well-situated to assist them, helping to provide a new level of appreciation of their potential for effective solutions and national policies.