Engineering Management Institute Digital Badge Program

The Engineering Management Institute has partnered with digital badging provider Credly through their Acclaim platform to provide our certification holders with a digital badge of their EMI certifications. Digital badges can be used in email signatures, personal websites, and social media sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter. This digital image contains verified metadata that describes the qualifications and the process required to earn them. 

Benefits to Individuals

• Validate your skills. Stand out.
• Earn recognition for your knowledge.
• Increase your value to your employer.
• Enhance your credibility as an engineering professional.
• Get a digital badge you can share.

Benefits to Employers

• Secure a competitive edge.
• Transform your talent into certified professionals.
• Maximize your investment in EMI.
• Make your business smarter and more innovative.
• Develop excellence for a competitive edge.
• Provide a defined training path for employees.

How It Works

When you earn an EMI certification, you’ll also receive an email from Acclaim inviting you to claim your badge.

• Click the link in the email.
• Create an account on the Acclaim site.
• Accept your badge through an email from Acclaim and start sharing.

We hope you will take advantage of this new functionality and enjoy the convenience and professional recognition afforded by our new badging program.

If you do not receive an email from Acclaim within two weeks after being certified, let us know at [email protected].

Digital Badges FAQs

What is an open badge?

Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.

How does my certification get displayed as a badge?

We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company’s Acclaim Platform. The technology Credly uses on its Acclaim Platform is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.

What are the benefits of a badge?

Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Credly’s Acclaim Platform also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the Acclaim Platform.

Who is Credly?

Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.

How will I know if I’ve earned a badge?

You will receive an email notification from the Acclaim Platform ([email protected]) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account so please white list this email address to ensure smooth delivery of necessary set up and account notices.

What if I don’t want my badge to be public?

You can easily configure your privacy settings in the Acclaim Platform. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.

Is there a fee to use Credly’s Acclaim Platform?

No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.

What’s to keep someone else from copying my badge and using it?

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly’s Acclaim Platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.

Where and how can I share my badge through Credly’s Acclaim Platform?

You can share your badge directly from the Acclaim Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.

Email Signature

• Log in to your Acclaim account, navigate to your profile, right-click on your badge image, and copy.
• Within your email settings, access your email signature and paste the badge image into your signature.
• Back in Acclaim, copy the badge landing page link.
• In your email signature, highlight your badge and hyperlink with the link you just copied.

Please note: Your email client may require a different process for adding an image to your signature. Please contact your email client administrator with any questions.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn requires individuals to add information about their certification in order to share their badge to their profile. To share your badge details to your LinkedIn profile, view the detailed instructions listed within Acclaim.

Facebook and Twitter

• Click the sharing icon from Acclaim.
• Be prompted by Facebook or Twitter to connect your account – this gives Facebook and Twitter permission to share your badge from Acclaim.

The badge (image and all) will show up in your Twitter timeline or on your Facebook profile.