July 2004

1
IEEE EAB Committee on Global Accreditation
Activities
2
Attendees of the 16 November Meeting

• Jose Antonio de la O, CGAA Chair
• Dave Baker, APC Chair
• Chandrabhan Sharma, Deputy-Dean of Undergraduate
  Studies of UWI
• Don McCloy, Engineers Ireland
• Enrique Alvarez, ICACIT Peru
• Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas, Universidad Catolica San
  Pablo, Peru
• Moshe Kam, Vice President, Educational Activities
• Staff
• Arnie Peskin
• Doug Gorham
• Sharon Strock
• Guests
• Arthur Winston
• S.K.Ramesh
• Ted Hissey
• Eleanor Baum

3
Specific Activities

• accreditation.org launched
• ICACIT
• CAST
• West Indies
• Policy Papers
• First Professional Degree
• Accreditation Policy

4
accreditation.org

• Active for one week
• Goal is for this site to be the premiere online
  source on accreditation
• Invited others to contribute

5
ICACIT

• A model governance document was drafted
• Additional training of Program Evaluators
• 10-12 December 2007, Arequipa, Peru
• Spanish translation of ABET documents introduced
  program title ambiguities

6
Chinese Association for Science and Technology
(CAST)

• Update 19 October Meeting in Beijing
• Future Program Evaluator training planned
• April 2008
• Request for outside observers

7
West Indies

• Update 21-22 September accreditation workshop in
  Trinidad
• Provide assistance to establish a Caribbean
  accrediting body
• Proposed planning meeting
• San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 2008

8
First Professional Degree in Engineering

• Moshe characterized the responses to The
  Institute article
• CGAA endorsed EADs draft position on the issue

9
Accreditation Policy Paper

• The position paper on accreditation was reviewed
  and discussed
• CGAA endorsed the paper with minor amendment and
  clarification

10
Questions Posed

• Institution level vs. program accreditation
• Need for translation services
• To what extent should we support training
• ABET
• Western Europe
• Should we encourage invitation of foreign
  observers?
• Additional IEEE international accreditation
  opportunities

11
CGAA 2008

• It is anticipated that the CGAA will have two
  face-to-face meetings in 2008
• June BoD Series (?)
• November BoD Series (?)