EAB

1
EAB Accreditation Policy Council Report
David Baker, APC Chair
27 January 2007 CEAA Meeting
2
Accreditation Agenda Items

• ABET Proposed Renumbered Criteria
• ABET Participation Project

3
ABET Proposed Renumbered Criteria

• Originally called harmonization of criteria
• Concern normal process for criteria change not
  followed
• CTAA recommendations to improve definitions,
  remove inconsistencies, and review assessment
  criterion
• CEAA recommendations not submitted due to EAC
  action

4
ABET Proposed Renumbered Criteria

• EAC Action
• Support for harmonization
• Recommended ABET Accreditation Council draft
  harmonization criteria for review and comment
• Present to full EAC in Summer 2007
• One year of public comment in 2008
• One year to develop material and implement in
  2009
• CAC supported EAC action

5
ABET Proposed Renumbered Criteria

• ABET Accreditation Council Action
• Significant comments received and some
  modifications viewed as substantive
• Implementation delayed to 2008-09 cycle
• Suggested modifications being made for completion
  by January 2007
• Modified version submitted to March 2007 ABET BoD
  for second reading approval

6
ABET Participation Project

• Background
• Objective to improve value of accreditation
• Competency model endorsed by Board-Oct. 2005
• Competency model used for PEV recruitment,
  selection, training, evaluation, and recognition

7
Competency Model
8
Competency Model
9
ABET Participation Project

• Background-Continued
• Phase l Needs Assessment/Gap Analysis
• Phase ll Design Participation Program
• Phase lll Pilot Testing of Design
• Phase lV Implementation
• recast as Partnership to Advance Volunteer
  Excellence (PAVE)
• Phase V Continuous Improvement Model
  incorporated into PAVE

10
Partnership to Advance Volunteer Excellence (PAVE)

• Kick-off Meeting August 30, 2006
• Attended by 19 Professional Societies
• 8 IEEE and 2 CSAB
• 50 Participants including board members,
  commission members, ABET staff

11
PAVE

• 10 PEV failure rate cited as one need for PP.
  No data presented
• Meeting focused on the three PP products
• Recruitment/Selection
• Training
• Evaluation

12
PAVEComments by Member Societies

• Strengths
• Active training through small group interaction
• More focused evaluation
• Use of competency model through whole process
• Use of electronic communication

13
PAVEComments by Member Societies

• Concerns
• Cost
• Time commitment for training
• Impact on recruiting of industrial PEVs
• Role of member societies vs ABET in recruitment,
  selection, training, evaluation

14
Recommendations to ABET BoD

• Establish a PAVE Steering Committee with clearly
  assigned roles and responsibilities to oversee
  implementation of PP
• Utilize a phased implementation strategy

15
Recommendations to ABET BoD

• Develop a formal communications strategy/plan
• Establish a formal continuous improvement/feedback
  process (Phase V)

16
IEEE/CSAB Friendly Amendment

• Establish a PAVE Steering Committee that will
  report to the Board at the March 2007 meeting on
  the following
• Composition of the decision-making body for PAVE
  action, establishment and documentation of
  decision-making procedures, rules, reporting
  relationships, and other pertinent parameters
• Financial impact on ABET, ABET member societies,
  and other affected constituencies

17
CTAA Discussion Items

• What should be IEEEs policy regarding
  implementation?
• What is IEEEs plan for 2007?
• What feedback does IEEE have for the current
  products?

18
PEV Application Selection

• What should be IEEEs policy regarding
  implementation?
• What is IEEEs plan for 2007?
• What feedback does IEEE have for the current
  product?

19
PEV Application Form

• Minimum Qualifications
• Minimum Qualifications and Requirements, are
  must have requirements. Once these are met,
  then the candidate is evaluated against the
  competency model as well as other qualifications
  the professional society desires its candidates
  to possess.
• Demonstrated interest in improving education
• Member of one or more specified professional
  societies or willing to become a member prior to
  applying for PEV
• Formal education and recognized distinction in
  their field
• Industry PEVs
• Degree appropriate to the field
• Experience in employment of graduates
• Academic PEVs
• Degree appropriate to the field
• Experience with accreditation process (desirable)
• Internet and e-mail access and is proficient in
  word processing
• Other minimum qualifications to be added by
  Professional Societies (i.e. PE license)

20
PEV Application Form Observations

• IEEE addresses more technically current
  competency information
• ABET requires three references, one should be
  direct supervisor
• ABET allows program areas other than IEEE
• ABET should reword program area comment box to
  justify qualifications
• ABET addresses competencies
• ABET allows uploading of CV
• ABET form is more time consuming
• ABET asks limited professional society info

21
PEV Training

• What should be IEEEs policy regarding
  implementation?
• What is IEEEs plan for 2007?
• What feedback does IEEE have for the current
  product?

22
PEV Training

• Option of IEEE doing training for 2007. 2006
  ABET materials used
• Option of using 3 ABET training sessions
• 2 hotel nights and meals provided to those
  completing pre-work and 1-1/2 day session
• Plan to cover all travel expenses in 2008
• Society observers encouraged. Society to pay
  travel costs. Respond by February 5
• Train the Trainer Workshop
• 1-1/2 day session in Baltimore. March 10-11
• ABET covers all expenses
• Must be/have been experienced team chair
• Respond by February 5

23
PEV Evaluation

• What should be IEEEs policy regarding
  implementation?
• What is IEEEs plan for 2007?
• What feedback does IEEE have for the current
  product?