Professor Jorg Steinbach

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Accreditation of engineering degree programmes -
current requirements and future challenges An
International Perspective
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Steinbach Vice-president of
the Technische Universität Berlin Past-President
of SEFI
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Accreditation

• Accreditation is a process in which certification
  of competency, authority, or credibility is
  presented.

• Organizations that issue credentials or certify
  third parties against official standards are
  themselves formally accredited by accreditation
  bodies hence they are sometimes known as
  "accredited certification bodies".

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Accreditation

• The accreditation process ensures that their
  certification practices are acceptable, typically
  meaning that they are competent to test and
  certify third parties, behave ethically, and
  employ suitable quality assurance.

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Quality Benchmarks

• design a good engineering curriculum in view of
  the responsibility to allow for academic mobility
  on the European scale,
• design a good engineering curriculum in view of
  the responsibility to prepare for a professional
  career on the European scale,
• ensure employability after completion of the
  first cycle based on outcome assessment,(In this
  context a must be stated that according to the
  overwhelming majority of expert opinions
  employability must not be set equal to a
  comprehensive engineering education.)
• design a good engineering curriculum in view of
  the responsibility to prepare for a professional
  career on the global scale,

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Outcome orientation - competences
method
domain
1. Competent in one or more scientific disciplines
4. A scientific approach
specific
2. Competent in doing research
3. Competent in designing
5. Basic intellectual skills
6. Collaborating and communicating
generic
7. Takes social and temporal context into account
context
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European Qualification Framework

• Six categories of Programme Outcomes
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Engineering Analysis
• Engineering Design
• Investigations
• Engineering Practice
• Transferable (personal) Skills

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Demands On Professional Mobility

• Education and engineering education in
  particular is no longer a national topic but a
  European one.
• The requirements for a sound engineering
  education must be fulfilled in common. This does
  by no means call for identical curricula! But .
• What is asked for is
• establishing substantial equivalency in Europe!

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The Shoebox System
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Integrated Curriculum
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Types of Accreditation Discussed

• Program Accreditation In Germany
• System's Accreditation In Austria, Germany,
  Norway etc.
• Program Accreditation On European Scale
• Program Accreditation On Global Scale

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Germany

• We interpret accreditation as the substitute to
  the individual governments of the "Länder" in
  their former responsibility to issue the permit
  to run a curriculum at an institute of higher
  education.
• This is a quality management process, which has
  no link to assess professional qualification in
  terms of chartering systems etc.

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Austria, Germany, Norway etc.Systems
Accreditation

• This is a process, where the quality management
  process of the institution plays the governing
  role, as the "Wissenschaftsrat" has outlined
  extensively in his publications. This is entirely
  not compatible with any of the other program
  approaches.

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Quality Management in Teaching In
analogy to ISO 90002005

• It usually consists of
• definition of the quality policy
• quality strategy
• quality control
• quality assurance and
• process optimization

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Process Modell In Teaching (acc. DIN EN ISO
90002000)
Leadership Board of the University
Employers Survey
support
Study Applicants
1st year students
Graduates
Selection
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Sample Sub-Processes of Teaching and Learning
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Quo Vadis?
national approach

• Alignment vs Agreement
• Europe must develop its own accord and seek
  mutual global recognition in a second step
• Systems Accreditation can only serve as national
  amendment and merge into TQM activities

globalapproach
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Quo Vadis?

• Competence vs Performance
• Teaching intends to provide competencies
• Measurement checks on resulting performance