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This course is part of ASCE's Sustainable Infrastructure Certificate.

Course Length: 5 hours

Purpose and Background

Sustainable development requires engineers to educate the public about sustainability, as well as clients, partners and regulatory decision-makers. Are you ready to engage stakeholders in this educational conversation? If not, 'Community Participation: Effective Stakeholder Involvement throughout the Project Life Cycle' is a must. This five hour on-demand seminar is enriched by real stories from engineers who have succeeded and struggled with stakeholder involvement. You will get to see them consider different approaches to various stakeholder groups, and explain how the decisions impact their work. Models and frameworks will help you make these decisions for yourself and as part of teams. You will learn about the context in which the public views engineering, the different expectations among different types of stakeholders, the factors that might require more intensive techniques, the roles outside experts can play, and the methods for evaluating the effectiveness of stakeholder involvement. Your career success as an engineer in the 21st century will be directly related to your skill working with non-engineers, as well as your technical peers, to be a leader on sustainability. Managing projects over a lifetime will require sophisticated understanding of the social and political dynamics presented in this course.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Course Outline

Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - The Community in community participation
Module 3 - The Participants” in community participation
Module 4 - Techniques
Module 5 - Complexities
Module 6 - Evaluation and Learning
Module 7 - Wrap Up

How to Earn your PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.