The Northwest Water & Energy Education Institute (NWEEI) offers both standard and custom learning opportunities throughout the Northwest for practicing professionals in the energy and water industries, including an energy management certification program
NWEEI provides professional development opportunities throughout the Northwest region, Nationally and Internationally. Participants have included technicians, contractors, engineers, architects, consultants, utility personnel, and energy managers.
One-of-a-kind 2 Year Degrees
Our 2 year degrees are designed to train and quickly place our graduates into new careers within the energy industry. Inclusive curriculum's highlight the importance of sustainability, energy efficiency, conservation and the pursuit of renewable energy sources.
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Certification Equals High Returns on Your Investment.
A certificate from NEEI can significantly enhance your credentials and your value in the marketplace. Because our instructors are real practitioners, course information is timely and directly useful to you. Classes provide knowledge and skills that are directly applicable within your workplace.
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Customized Solutions
Professional training for industry. NEEI has provided training nationally and internationally for over 15 years and is able to utilize instructors from our network of industry experts.
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What's New?
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Understanding the LEED™ Framework & Green Building 3-CREDIT ONLINE Summer Class
Introducing a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) online summer prep course that specifically focuses on concepts that a Green Associate is expected to master. Learn how to apply the LEED rating system to real world scenarios!
ENROLL NOW! CLASS STARTS JUNE 24 2013
MORE DETAILS: NRG172_LEEDprepcourse_flier_screen.pdf05/09/2013
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Registration for the 2013 Energy Management Certification Program (EMC) is in full swing. Dates for this year's "energy boot camp" are July 8 –July 19. Class is limited to 15 participants so register soon! Check out program details here.
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Now Enrolling: Building Controls Technicians
We're proud to announce a brand new Building Controls Tech option beginning fall 2013. This technically intense 2-year program delves deep into the details of building control systems and focuses on how to implement smart(er) programming logic that directly impacts energy and water usage.
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The Energy Programs and NEEI will be re-locating winter term 2013 into a brand new building located in the heart of downtown Eugene. We are very excited to be a part of the new campus location as the building is designed with several one-of-a-kind features that will allow our students to interact with the building as a functioning lab. The project has often been referred to as a 'building that teaches' and we believe it will provide a unique opportunity for people locally, nationally and internationally interested in Energy efficiency and building sciences to come and learn.
Read more about the project on LCC's website
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Building Operator Certification - 2013 Update:
Level 1 BOC classes will be available in Portland and Corvallis, starting in January, and again in Tigard, starting in the Fall. Level 2 BOC will be available in Pendleton, starting in March.
-2013 Pendleton Level 2 classes - now registering ! Refer to Course Schedule.
-Medford Level 1 classes, in progress !
-Salem Level 1 classes, now registering !
-Portland Level 1 classes, now registering !
Please see Course Schedule for further information. Please visit www.theboc.info for course details, or call Erik Westerholm toll free at 877-447-4544 for more information! Register soon to reserve your space!
Some scholarship funding is available, discounts available for BOMA/IFMA/OSHE/OSFMA members. Call 1-877-447-4544 or email Erik
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Building Operator Certification Level II
Level II BOC builds on the achievements of Level I Certification, and will next be available March 2013 in Pendleton. Register Today!
Seven class days cover the following six topics: Preventative Maintenance & Operations, Advanced Electrical Diagnostics, HVAC Troubleshooting & Maintenance, HVAC Controls & Optimization, Motors in Facilities, and Building Commissioning. Special pricing available for OSHE, CRHEA, BOMA, and IFMA members. Some scholarship funding available. Find detailed course descriptions here. Check our updated schedule or call Erik @ 541-463-6170 for further details. Download Course Schedule (.doc)
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Commercial Efficiency Book
Energy-Efficient Operation of Commercial Buildings: Redefining the Energy Manager’s Job
by Peter Herzog
Peter Herzog’s excellent reference, Energy Efficient Operation of Commercial Buildings, is back in print and available through NEEI.
Today’s commercial buildings are complex super-systems that rely, not only on the efficient operation of individual equipment components, but on sub-systems of these components, and on control systems. Over time components and systems tend to wander from their design operational points and controls tend to drift from their set-points. Typically this means less efficient operation and greater energy and operation costs. Often this decreased performance goes unnoticed.
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LCC STUDENT SELECTED FOR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Press Release Source: http://focusthenation.org/programs/recharge Contact: Sasha Tenzin (503) 224-9440 -
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Note: Cody Fish is also previous student of the Energy Programs at the Northwest Water and Energy Education Insitute (NWEEI)
PORTLAND, Ore. – May 15, 2013 – Lane Community College student Cody Fish has been selected as one of the nation’s top rising young leaders in the sustainable energy sector by national non-profit organization Focus the Nation.
Twenty students from across the country have been selected for their dedication, passion, and unique contribution to advancing sustainable energy in America. The young leaders—five each in the categories of Technician, Innovator, Politico, and Storyteller—will meet for one week on August 11th, 2013 on Oregon’s Mt. Hood at the ReCharge! Retreat to explore an area of the country where energy is accelerating towards renewables.
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NWEEI Works with SEED as Rose State College Mentor
AACC’s SEED Center Mentor Connect program pairs best-in-class green colleges with “mentee” colleges in an effort to build and expand programs that prepare students for careers in clean energy and sustainability-related fields. The benefits of peer mentoring are well-documented, but this project (documented in SEED's new report marks the first time the concept has been applied on a national scale to green and sustainability programs at community colleges. With 470 community colleges pursuing sustainability in some form, and with many struggling to define the curricular opportunities, this kind of technical assistance can be an effective way to replicate the most innovative community college practices. The LCC Water and Energy Program is a featured mentor college.
Read the Entire Article Here: ACC-Mentor-Connect-Report-2013.pdf04/11/2013 |
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Lane's Energy Management students excited about 90,000-square-feet lab
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Lane Community College Energy Management Program Coordinator Roger Ebbage talks with students
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By Bonnie Henderson Origionally Published by LaneCC Marketing & Public Relations March 2013. Article source: http://www.lanecc.edu/mpr/success/story91.htm
When Lane Community College Energy Management Program Coordinator Roger Ebbage calls the new downtown campus academic building "the building that teaches," students believe it.
"The first week we were just walking around with our necks craned, looking up," says student Amy Hill, 27. They were looking at the ceiling, where intentional gaps in acoustical tiles expose the building's essential heating, electrical, and water systems.
The building opened to students in January 2013, but the program has been around for more than two decades. It is still one of just a handful of community college energy management programs in the country, thanks in part to generous support from the Eugene Water and Electric Board. Classes used to be scattered around Lane's main campus, Ebbage notes; if instructors wanted students to see a particular heating or water system, "we had to leave our building and go to another building on campus or downtown to see it. Now they're all inside the same building shell." |
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LCC and EWEB continue internship program
Two new LCC interns at EWEB - EWEB's current LCC interns, Roy Smith and Lief Hochendoner
The Eugene Water & Electric Board has been an active participant and supporter of the Lane Community College Energy Management Program since its inception in 1980. The program has produced graduates with a 95 percent placement rate into family-wage jobs. Students have found positions in private and public organizations under a wide variety of job titles in Eugene and throughout the Northwest. EWEB over the past few decades has offered more than 30 LCC students internship opportunities in its Commercial and Residential Energy Management Services departments.
Entire article: LCCand_EWEBcontinue_internship_program.pdf03/15/2013 Origional article Link: EWEB Efficiency By Design – Spring 2013 |
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Lane Community College to hold Downtown Center open house
By Chris McKee Origionally Published on kmtr.com : March 1, 2013
Selected hightlight from article. LCC will hold an open house to showcase the new Downtown Center on March 15. While hundreds of students and teachers have been using the building for classes over the last two months, the college says it now wants to show the community the all of the features inside.
Building representatives say the Downtown Center is basically “one giant classroom” from the top floor down thanks to several green elements and the incorporation of real building function into the student work environment.
On the green side, the building is going after a LEED Platinum status. LEED Platinum is one of the highest rankings for sustainable building projects as set by the U.S. Green Building Council. Throughout its design and construction, crews incorporated elements like a significant use of natural light, using the heat of the earth to help control air temperature, also using plants and water to help shed and reuse rainwater.
Entire article: KMTR_LCC-toholdOpenhouse.pdf03/11/2013 Origional article Link: Lane Community College to hold Downtown Center open house |
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Energy efficiency curriculae: where it all started By Jane Pulaski -- Origionally Published on irecusa.org: May 16, 2011 - A version of this article appeared as a feature in the IREC email newsletter
Feature: Energy Efficiency Education: a conversation with NEEi's Roger Ebbage
Roger’s a very compelling (though modest) kind of guy. Back in 1992, he convinced Lane Community College (LCC) to hire him as its Energy Management Coordinator, and (not surprisingly) transformed a moribund program into the national model for energy education. We all owe him, big time. Today, as the Northwest Energy Education Institute’s (NEEi) Director of Energy and Water Programs, Roger’s visionary work continues—he’s busier than ever. I called him on Earth Day (how appropriate) to chat about his work and the changes he’s seen over the past two decades. As with the first time we talked, Roger was gracious, compelling and modest. Read more...
Entire article: irec-energyefficency-education_rogerebbage_neei.pdf Origional article Link: http://irecusa.org/2011/05/energy-efficiency-education-a-conversation-with-neei's-roger-ebbage/ |
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Community College Training for Managing Green Jobs
By Elizabeth Olson Origionally Published on nytimes.com: August 25, 2010 - A version of this article appeared in print on August 26, 2010, on page F8 of the New York edition.
Selected hightlight from article. Government money is helping smaller institutions build programs that train students in various emerging and established energy fields.
The federal government is pouring $500 million into training for green jobs, and the sector devoted to energy efficiency is estimated to grow as much as fourfold in the next decade, to some 1.3 million people, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Its March 2010 report was financed by the Energy Department.
Entire article: community_colleges_on_green_studies_nytimes.pdf Origional article Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/education/26GREEN.html |
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