Global IEEE Leadership in Accreditation

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Global IEEE Leadership in Accreditation
IEEE Educational Activities Board
José A. de la O, CGAA Chair
18 November 2006, New Orleans
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Consultants

• Carole Mablekos, has been hired to develop a
  white paper on IEEEs Guidelines on
  Accreditation.
• She is also doing an environmental scan of global
  accreditation systems and Mutual Recognition
  Agreements.
• Joanne Van Voorhis, consultant for
  TryEnginerring, is also researching current
  accreditation global systems.
• She is developing an inter-relational
  accreditation database that will house all
  information related to this documentation.

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Accreditation Activities in Peru

• Moshe Kam visited Peru in July and made a
  presentation at the Peruvian Computer Week
  Conference.
• He also met with the leadership of ICACIT to
  discuss the translation of TryEngineering.org
  into Spanish, and sponsoring a Program Evaluation
  Training Workshop.
• This workshop is planned for 1-3 December in Lima
  to train 40 participants and will be delivered in
  Spanish.
• The purpose of this workshop is to educate the
  ICACIT members about ABET processes.

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Accreditation Activities in Peru

• This will help Peruvian educators and
  practitioners move towards setting up their own
  criteria procedures, so that ultimately they can
  conduct their own evaluations in engineering,
  technology and computing.
• To assist in this goal, EAB received approval
  from ABET to translate their procedures and
  processes into Spanish.

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Accreditation Activities in China

• A Working Group on Education in China has been
  formed and met by conference call on 9 October.
• A face-to-face meeting is planned for on 24-25
  November in Beijing. This groups agenda includes
  information sharing, learning about accrediting
  bodies worldwide and a snapshot of Chinese
  accreditation.
• They will also determine the needs for future
  meetings and review planning activities for 2007.

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Accreditation Activities in the West Indies

• In order to fulfill a request from the University
  of West Indies on how IEEE can help them reform
  their accreditation system
• Moshe Kam and Pedro Ray plan to meet with them in
  December for preliminary information gathering.