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International accreditation framework
Published in Firoz Alam, Alexandra Kootsookos, Engineering Education, 2020
Firoz Alam, Alexandra Kootsookos
Accreditation is seen as quality assurance for the education institution and the program or degree being offered. Accreditation can also imply financial security for the higher education institution and reassures current students, employers, government and the general public of the quality of the programs being offered [133]. Through national and international benchmarking, accreditation allows different nations to recognise engineering qualifications of substantial equivalence. This means that graduates of accredited programs have global mobility without the need for reassessment. Thus, a graduate in Australia of a program accredited by EA is able to practise engineering to the same level in all jurisdictions of the signatories of the Washington Accord. While this benchmarking process is the primary function of accreditation, as accredited qualifications are established, the IEA, which administers the Washington Accord, also becomes a forum within which the best practice of engineering education is disseminated. The accreditation process is typically based on an assessment of learning outcomes.
Industrial Hygiene Professional
Published in Frances Alston, Emily J. Millikin, Willie Piispanen, Industrial Hygiene, 2018
Frances Alston, Emily J. Millikin, Willie Piispanen
There are several colleges and universities that have degree programs to develop industrial hygiene professionals, although in recent years many of the programs have changed or are no longer in existence. Furthermore, some of the curricula offered by these universities are not very comprehensive and may not meet the needs of employers as they seek to fill their professional positions. The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) publishes on its website (https://www.aiha.org) a list of colleges and universities that offer degrees that are accredited by ABET in the discipline of industrial hygiene. ABET is a nonprofit organization that accredits colleges and university programs in the area of science, engineering, and technology. This accreditation provides some assurance to employers that a college or university program meets the quality standards that were established by the profession, and the program has the curriculum to prepare the student to be successful in the discipline. Many employers are seeking to hire candidates from ABET-accredited universities or colleges. The list provided is a great start in identifying programs designed to develop industrial hygienists.
Professionalism and ethical practice
Published in Riadh Habash, Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing, 2019
Accreditation is a review process to assure the quality of educational programs and determine if these programs meet defined standards. Once achieved, accreditation is not permanent; it is renewed periodically to ensure that the quality of the educational program is maintained. Accreditation concerns itself with both quality assurance and program enhancement. It applies to programs and is to be distinguished from certification or licensure, which applies to individuals. These accreditation standards embrace the philosophy that program graduates should have acquired general and special knowledge, general to avoid the constraints of too narrow, and special to provide a basis for critical professional evaluations (CCAPP 2018).
The extent of the teacher academic development from the accreditation evaluation system perspective using machine learning
Published in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 2023
Accreditation is a procedure of evaluation and revision, which empowers a higher education course or organisation to be acknowledged or accredited as fulfiling proper quality (Liu et al., 2015). Moreover, accreditation participates in the integration of occupations by associating professionals, educators, and students in a scholastic project administration to enrich the expert arrangements and exercises (Gandhi, 2013). A permitted organisation is officially acknowledging accreditation of an institution having accomplished concurred standards. It depends on and pursues quality assurance. Quality to the purpose of quality assurance is the notion of quality assessment. The processing system of the quality appraisal can be both complicated and troublesome (Ahmad et al., 2018).
Collaborative quality enhancement in engineering education: an overview of operational models at a programme level
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
J. Bennedsen, S. Rouvrais, J. Roslöf, J. Kontio, F. Georgsson, C. D. McCartan
In addition to an institution's internal quality assurance system and processes, the main approaches to address accountability and quality include international and national accreditation requirements and/or audit processes. An accreditation process evaluates if an institution qualifies for a certain status. An audit, e.g. the Finnish national higher education audits by FINEEC (www.karvi.fi), is a check of an institution's claims about itself; an evaluation on the extent to which the institution is achieving its own objectives. Some countries or HEIs use more than one approach simultaneously. The result of an accreditation or an audit may be a label of quality or even be directly connected to the institution's permission to operate (Woodhouse 1999).