Quality assessment and accreditation of engineering programmes: a global outlook Online publication date: Fri, 27-Jun-2008
by K.G. Viswanadhan, N.J. Rao
International Journal of Services and Standards (IJSS), Vol. 4, No. 3, 2008
Abstract: While everyone concerned with engineering education agrees that achieving quality standards in education is a worthy undertaking, there is no agreement on the definition of quality standards, let alone how to measure or achieve it. The first step in the description of quality standards, therefore, is to specify the requirements of engineering education. The major issues in this regard are 'whose requirements are to be identified', 'who specifies the requirements', 'how are requirements specified' and 'what the international considerations are'. This paper discusses these issues and draw attention to the quality standards of various accreditation boards around the world.
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