International Engineering Education Accreditation

Education accreditation can not only help ensure quality of programs but also provide a mechanism for continuous improving assessment. Therefore, more and more countries have their own institutes to accredit engineering programs. Since 1997, ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, U.S.A.) has adopted new outcome-based accreditation criteria called EC2000. How to meet the requirements of the criteria and to implement the outcome-based criteria is a crucial issue for engineering faculty. On the other hand, based on substantially equivalent criteria, several countries singed the Washington Accord, an agreement between signatory countries. The main purpose of Washington Accord is to strengthen the quality assurance of engineering programs and encourage the international cooperation between signatories with accredited programs. In this session, papers related to the following areas are welcome.

‧ Program outcomes and assessment;

‧ Criteria development and implementation;

‧ Washington Accord and international cooperation;

‧ Other topics related to engineering education accreditation.

Further information is available at the iCEER-2005 Web site: http://www.iaalab.ncku.edu.tw/iceer2005

IMPORTANT DATES:

Aug 20, 2004	:	Abstract due
Sept 01, 2004	:	Notice of acceptance/ rejection
Oct 20, 2004	:	Final paper due
Nov 20, 2004	:	Notice of final paper acceptance/ rejection
Dec 10, 2004	:	Participant early registration closed and deadline for authors’ registration to ensure publishing of submitted papers

Session Chair:

Dr. Yeong-Bin Yang

Dean, College of Engineering

National Taiwan University

Taipei City, Taiwan 106

Phone: 886-2-3366-3271

FAX: 886-2-2363-7585

Email: ybyang@ntu.edu.tw

Co-chair:
Dr. Pei-Fen Chang
Assistant Professor,
Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction,
National Central University,
Chung-Li, Taiwan 320.
Phone: 886-3-422-7151#3853
E-mail: pfchang@cc.ncu.edu.tw