Last year, instructors from the Department of Environmental Management at AFIT’s Civil Engineer School taught 47 course and seminar offerings to 797 students. If the students are either Air Force military or civilian, the Civil Engineer School pays their travel and per diem costs. Even with this support, it is difficult for overseas students to attend the Civil Engineer School courses. Quite frequently, the potential students are on a one-year assignment or do not have the time for the extended travel. The Department of Environmental Management attempts to accommodate these students by providing traveling instructors for key courses.

So far this year, the Civil Engineer School supported an inter-service course in Qualified Recycling Program Management for Pacific Air Forces. Bill Stobbe of the Civil Engineer School directed and taught the course with assistance from Nancy Carper of the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment and Ted Schleutker of the Office of the Commander, Navy Region Southwest. They taught offerings of the course at both Misawa and Kadena in Japan, with attendance by 50 students from Army, Navy, and Air Force installations. The course included a tour of a local Japanese recycling center, which operates under legally mandated recycling and where garbage must be separated into 10 categories.

Also in April and May of this year, Connie Strobbe taught her Environmental Management System Auditing course at Kunsan and Kadena Air Bases in Korea and Japan. The Environmental Management Systems Auditing is required for an installation to perform their internal EMS audits and be in conformance with ISO 14,001, as specified by executive order. Ms Strobbe will also be teaching the course at Ramstein AB, Germany, on 14-17 Sep 2009.

When possible, the School will support other services under agreements of the Interservice Environmental Education Review Board, a standing subcommittee of the Interservice Training Review Organization. At the request of the US Army, Mark Jernigan, Contracting Instructor and former faculty member of the Defense Acquisition University, along with Don Van Schaack, will teach a five-day course in Environmental Contracting at Camp Zama, Japan.

In an effort to better serve all services in the European Command, members of HAF/A7CAN and the Civil Engineer School attended a workshop with members from the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps Officer’s School at Port Hueneme, California; the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; and the Defense Logistics Agency Training Center, Columbus, Ohio. The outcome of the workshop was the identification and prioritization of key environmental education and training European requirements.

Requests for on-site environmental education should be addressed to the Dean of the Civil Engineer School.