IMPORTANT NOTE: Completion of the CCE Program Requires Using Two Websites with Two Different Logins: The Certified Chief Engineer (CCE) program requires the use of two (2) websites. The National Association of Hotel & Lodging Engineers (NAHLE) partners with the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) to bring you the CCE program. The NAHLE website is for registering and tracking your hours of study while the EI’s website is only for taking exams. The usernames and passwords for the two websites are not interchangeable. So, please keep track of your usernames and passwords.

The first thing you do is register. You will create your own username and password when your property (GM) registers you. The NAHLE website (www.nahle.org) uses these Username and Password to ‘Log On’ to NAHLE’s website. The NAHLE website is where you will track your daily hours of on-the-job study time.

The EI will send you an email with a separate Username and Password for use on an entirely different website address. Use your EI Username and Password to access their website. This is where you take your exams (https://testing.ahlei.org/perception5/). There are three exams so hang on to this second set of website IDs.

There are three steps to becoming a Certified Chief Engineer:

1) Register,

2) Study the desk reference/study guide EI sends you and track the hours online you spend studying while on-the-job, and

3) Take the three sectional exams.

Step 1: GM Registers Engineer Candidate Online: The GM or

Certified Chief Engineer

Online Overview  

National Association of Hotel & Lodging Engineers  

 

someone from your property must go online and register their property and the CCE candidate. Registration is easy. Go online at: http://nahle.org/membership-account/membership-levels/.

Click the “Select” button for ‘Certified Chief Engineer Training’ found below on Screen Grab #1.

Screen Grab #1

Next, fill out the entire ‘Member Registration’ form.

Screen Grab #2

Use the Discount Code, “gmdiscount” to make a secure online payment of $1.00 using any major credit card. This nominal amount is used to initiate the registration process and triggers several automatic functions such as your EI email. You will be invoiced an additional $500.00 for the program.

Create Your Own Username and Password: Input your candidate’s Username and Password. You may change the password only. Usernames cannot be changed.

 

For Username, enter the initials of your property. As an example, Hampton Inn & Suites, Oklahoma City / Bricktown would be “HISOCB.” Further, Hilton Garden Inn, Bricktown would be “HGIB”; Homewood Suites, Rogers would be “HSR”; and Hampton Inn Austin NW/Arboretum would be “HIANWA.” The Username cannot be changed. All letters are Upper Case. For Password, enter the candidate’s last name, once again capitalizing the first letter of the name, followed without a space by the word “Apple”. The Password combines two words into one word. For example, if the candidate’s name is Jeff Ellis, the Password would be entered as EllisApple, respectively. For Robert Elliott at the Home2 Suites in Alexandria, the Username would be H2SA and the password would be ElliottApple.

If the engineer is changed the password should be changed using the same format as listed above. The username may not be changed as it is permanently “hard coded.”

Your registration Discount Code is: ‘gmdiscount.’ Applying this code reduces the online registration charge to $1.00. The property will be invoiced an additional $500.00 for the program.

NAHLE Membership: Upon registration, the candidate also becomes an ‘Engineer Member’ of NAHLE with full access and privileges for one year.

STEP 2: Tracking Study Time - To start tracking your study time, go to www.nahle.org. This should take you to Screen Grab #3 for Log In.

Screen Grab #3

Click on the orange ‘Log In’ button in the upper right hand corner and

All GMs are asked to use the following format when registering their engineer candidate.  

you should be directed to a page that looks like Screen Grab #4 below:

Screen Grab #4

Type in your Username and Password and you will see a screen like Screen Grab #5 found below.

Screen Grab #5

Click on the orange button “Log hours now.” This should take you directly to the CCE Log Hours page that looks like the following.

Screen Grab #6

You will notice a little square red calendar after Date. If you click on it you may choose any day from today going back. You cannot log in hours for the future. Select the date. Then select the chapter you were studying by clicking on the black arrows surrounded or ‘highlighted’ in blue. Click on the Chapter where you want to enter time. Next drag the little square orange slider and it will show hours in increments of 15 minutes. Select the amount of time you spent studying that chapter. The candidate may make multiple entries in a single day.

You can add personal notes, for example, "Should go to OSHA's website or stopped on page 48- had to repair PTAC in room #223." Notes are personal and only available to those with your login account. To complete the entry, just click the button that says, "Submit Hours". You may read multiple chapters in a single sitting. This requires you to make multiple entries, one for each chapter.

Step 3: Go To EI’s Website https://testing.ahlei.org/perception5/

Taking the Sectional Exams: The other website is the testing website maintained by EI. Both the User ID and Password are automatically generated and sent to the GM and the candidate by email. Your email will contain the following information:

User ID Password Test Link

NAHLE00000 NEWWORD Select Service https://testing.ahlei.org The three (3) Sectional tests cover the following chapters:

Test 1 - Management, Chapters 1-6, Test 2 - Building Systems - Chapters 7-13, and Test 3 - Building Envelope & Grounds - Chapters 14-21

Once you have completed studying for any one of the three test sections, go to EI’s website at the following address and type in your User ID and Password: https://testing.ahlei.org. Log-In to Take Your Exam

Screen Grab #7 Use the Login ID and Password that you received by email from EI to Log In. Your Log In will bring you to a screen such as the next one shown (See Screen Grab #8).

Screen Grab #8

Select the exam that you want to take by clicking on the arrow. You have 90 minutes to complete the exam. You may bring the study guide and use it to find answers during the exam. It is an open-book exam. You must get 70% of your answers correct to pass. Upon completion of each Section Exam you will be sent by email your exam score by total percent complete and by chapter. Upon successful completion of all three exams, NAHLE will send by email a certificate of completion to the successful engineer candidate. Good Luck and as a new member, welcome to the National Association of Hotel & Lodging Engineers.

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