Educational accreditation

Professionalism and ethical practice

Published in Riadh Habash, Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing, 2019

In many countries, educational accreditation for higher education professional programs is conducted by a government organization, such as a ministry of education. However, in the US, the quality assurance process is independent of government and is performed by private agencies. The accreditation boards accredit undergraduate engineering programs. These programs provide the academic requirements for licensure. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), founded in 1932, is a not-for-profit body which accredits associate, bachelor’s, and master’s degree programs in the applied sciences, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. Programs in computer science can be accredited by the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB).

Above and beyond: ethics and responsibility in civil engineering

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Published in Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 2021

Shannon Chance, Rob Lawlor, Inês Direito, John Mitchell

Regarding the relationship between ethics and sustainability, the results of this exploratory study also lend support to moving ethics up the hierarchy, as has been done in CEBOK3 (Committee on Education 2019), such that ethics is no longer tucked under sustainability but now resides alongside it – with both as top-level priorities. Although professional and educational accreditation standards have traditionally embedded ethics within sustainability, our analyses, as well as CEBOK3 and Martin, Conlon, and Bowe (2020), suggest sustainability is a construct embedded within ethics.

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