Lead Institution: NC State University

Funding source: EPA through Washington University in St. Louis

Project Completed June, 2005

The Practitioner Curriculum is an effort to formalize and coordinate training opportunities for field practitioners. The goal of the curriculum is to

• Improve field practitioners’ abilities to effectively utilize onsite and decentralized technologies and improve the State of Practice (SOP)
• Enhance opportunities for the general population to make the best use of the decentralized approach to their community’s wastewater treatment requirements.

This project provides a consistent technical educational base from which to launch nationwide training programs, but the materials produced are readily electronically modifiable to address specific local needs. The materials currently developed include a Model Practitioner Curriculum that can be used to organize training programs as well as four detailed modules. The Practitioner's Curriculum is available for download here.