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from Convergence Training. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in education and started her doctoral research project in September 2019.
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. The published innovations and best practices are available to view or download at no cost. Rajendran’s next big focus is to develop a plan to market, recruit, enroll, retain, and graduate students for the new degrees in RISM.
Professor Mike Andler
completed his 12th year at CWU, and fifth year teaching in the SHM program. He continues to
Sathy Rajendran continues to chair the Engineering Technologies, Safety
teach construction management courses and general education courses. Andler has been actively attending professional development conferences to enhance his teaching and received the CEPS Outstanding Teaching Award for non-tenure track faculty member. For the program, Andler is predominately teaching the risk management courses and may coordinate the SHM certificate program moving forward. year at CWU. She continues to teach industrial hygiene, our lab course, the capstone course, and will start teaching our graduate courses next year. In her research pursuits, she co-spoke at the 2018 GISHAB conference and co-authored three ASSP articles with Jeff Dalto Professor Morgan Bliss just finished her third
and Construction Department. The department has
Professor Jennifer Serne joined us this year and did an excellent job teaching hazardous materials management,
grown under his leadership. He received two curriculum/program development grants this year, one of which is a $13,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation. He led the completion of a new publication— “Safe and Innovative Work Best Practices for Mechanical Crafts”— which presents 72 innovations and best practices to increase safety in mechanical contracting, one of America’s most dangerous industries. Comfort Systems USA Northwest, Central Washington University, Oregon State University and McKinstry partnered to publish the best practices. This three- year effort was made possible through the Safety and Health Investment Projects (SHIP) grant program, administered by the
ergonomics, construction safety, general industry safety, and more. She designed and added new lab modules into the ergonomics course. She will lead an essential task for our department as the diversity and inclusivity director in the coming years to create an inclusive excellence culture at ETSC. Serne spoke at the ASSP Puget Sound PDC at CWU in May 2019. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D., and will be starting her doctoral research project soon.
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