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Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education

Introduction

Program Evaluator Training


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UN Sustainable Development Goals

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International Bodies to Benchmark Engineering Education
• IEA: International Engineering Alliance [1989]
• FEIAP: Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific [1978]
• ENAEE: European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education [2006]
• NABEEA: Network of Accreditation Bodies for Engineering Education in Asia [2003]

Engineering Education Accords and Agreements are contributing to promote quality


education of engineering, extending the outreach of the standards and process, and
evolving to a global standards are the common interests of engineering communities
worldwide.

The Global Standards need to reflect the requirements of 2030 SDGs in the graduate
attributes and competency, so that to guide the transform of engineering for
sustainability.

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FEAIP
Members
IEA: Washington Accord
Members
Provisional Members
ENAEE
Members
NABEEA

Council Members

Full Members

Associate Members

Observers

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International Engineering Alliance
• Working together to advance educational quality and enhance global mobility
within the engineering profession

• Educational Accords - establish and enforce internationally bench-marked standards for


engineering education
 Washington Accord – for the engineers
 Sydney Accord – for the engineering technologists
 Dublin Accord – for the engineering technicians

• Competence Agreements – establish and enforce internationally bench-marked expected


competence for engineering practice.
 IPEA – International Professional Engineers Agreement
 APEC – for countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
 IETA – International Engineering Technologists Agreement
 AIET- Agreement for International Engineering Technicians

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Washington Accord (WA)

• The Global Leader of Accreditation in engineering programs.


• Serves the students and the world by contributing to UN SDG.
• WA educational standard, i.e., Graduate Attributes (GA) [exemplar], is outcomes
based.
• We need to be careful to use an input parameter, a number, as a requirement
conscientiously or sub-conscientiously for a program.
• Quantitative assessments are easy, qualitative assessment is the hardest.

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IEB-BAETE and IEA

 The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), is


the only professional organization for engineers of
Bangladesh recognized by the Government.
 IEB founded the Board of Accreditation for
Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE) in
2003 as an autonomous body.
 BAETE provisional Signatory of WA since 2011;
transferred to IEB in 2016.
 Total IEB Members: 54,000
 Total number of programs: 316

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Modules in this Training Program
• Module 1: Accreditation policy
• Module 2: Accreditation procedure
• Module 3: Quality, Professionalism and Decorum of Evaluation Team
• Module 4: Accreditation criteria
• Module 4a: Criteria (1 – 5)
• Module 4b: Criteria (5 – 10)
• Module 5: How to study and analyze SAR
• Module 6: Planning Onsite Visit, Triangulation and Evaluation
• Module 7: Evaluating Attainment of Program Outcomes
• Module 8: Writing Evaluation Team Report
• Module 9: Accreditation Management System
• Module 10: Observer role in BAETE accreditation

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Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education

BAETE Accreditation Policy

Program Evaluator Training


Module-1
Our Vision and Mission
 Vision
• To be a nationally and internationally recognized accreditation body in ensuring
quality engineering education.

 Mission
• To set a standard for the accreditation of engineering programs.
• To accredit/recognize local and foreign programs.

 IEB is also one of the founding members of NABEEA.


 IEB is also the full member of FEIAP since 2009.

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Outcome based Accreditation Manuals
Sets the
Policy, Criteria and
Procedure for Evaluating the
Programs to reach the
Accreditation Decisions.

We are guided by the


‘applicable’ Accreditation
Manual.
2017 2019 2022
Main changes in 2017 and 2019:
• OBA adopted in 2017 along with 12 WA GAs.
• Further clarification on knowledge profile, complex engineering problems and complex engineering activities in 2019.
• SAR Template was updated accordingly in 2017, 2019 and 2022.
• Each of the ten accreditation criteria were spelled out into several sub-criteria
• ET Report Template incorporated in the manual as Annex-III
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Retraining Retraining

The ladder for a resource person to grow


Sectoral Committee
Board Member
Member/Chair

Demonstrate
out-standing competence

within BAETE Retraining ET Chair

Demonstrate good
competence

Conduct Prog.
Evaluation

Retraining ET Member

Observe Prog.
Evaluation

ET Observer

PEV Training

OBE Training

Engineers from
Academics
Industry 13
Composition of Evaluation Team
An Evaluation Team consisting of a Chairperson and two members. The Chairperson will be a senior academic or a practicing
professional in a relevant engineering discipline with adequate experience in the accreditation process. At least one of the members
will be from the industry.

The members of the Evaluation Team will be drawn from the following:
• Academic institutions of repute
• R&D laboratories and establishments
• The government
• Corporation/industry.

Industry Program Evaluators will be drawn from the domain areas relevant to the program. The Chairperson must not be below the
rank of professor (or equivalent in the case of industry) and should have significant experience through previous participation as a
program evaluator.

The program evaluators may be active or retired professionals.

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Minimum Requirement for becoming an ET Member
Program evaluators from academia will typically have at least:

• Significant teaching and research experience in the university and good standing in their respective disciplines
• Demonstrable expertise in engineering education and/or a specific engineering discipline through publication and/or technology
development
• Good knowledge and skills for conduction program evaluations, obtained through training by BAETE or other accreditation bodies
• A Ph.D. or equivalent as the highest academic degree

Program evaluators from industry will typically have at least:

• Significant industrial experience, generally not less than 10 years of considerable engineering/managerial experience
• Demonstrable expertise in the specific engineering discipline of the program to be evaluated for accreditation
• Good knowledge and skills for conducting program evaluation, obtained through training by BAETE or other accreditation bodies
• A rank equivalent to senior manager or higher, preferably with post-graduate qualifications

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Addressing Conflict of Interest (CoI)
You, in the role of a Program
ET formation Evaluator is at the center point.

Your onsite observations and


Yes recommendations are the
ET members Replacement of ET
declare CoI member founding blocks of an
accreditation decision.
No

Program Yes
declares CoI

No
Conflict of Interest policy of IEB-
BAETE guides all involved in
ET is finalized accreditation decision making

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Why are we together here today?
• Evaluation is a soft skill.
• It is not a calculation but a judgement.
• The judgement is holistic - entirety of something must be considered instead of just considering its
parts.
• Experience matters, need to share the ideas, need to undergo through a process in delivering the
difficult decisions when margins are narrow, correct judgements are vital.
• Your observations based on your experience, maturity and findings will be the key to improve a
program, assist a program. In the long run, we will have better capable engineers for the country
and the world – in line with the vision and mission of BAETE.
• In this event, there is no particular teacher to teach, no particular student to learn, but we help
each other to make us better program evaluators.
• Becoming a BAETE Evaluator is a ladder to progress your career, a prestigious badge recognized
worldwide, adds considerable credentials to one’s profile.

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Holistic quality judgement
• Compliance: A criterion, policy, or procedure has adequately satisfied the benchmark
requirements stipulated in the manual. No corrective measure is required to strengthen
compliance prior to the next review.
• Concern: A criterion, policy, or procedure is broadly in compliance but requires
improvement to avoid compromising the quality of the program or is currently in compliance
but the potential exists for the situation to change, resulting in future non-compliance.
Progress on the corrective measures is required prior to the next review.
• Weakness: A criterion, policy, or procedure lacks compliance, compromising the quality of
the program. Corrective measures are required to strengthen compliance prior to the next
review.
• Deficiency: A criterion, policy, or procedure either does not exist or is in the elementary
stage. Compliance is required.
We need to have the evidence to support the findings and recommendations.
We don’t prescribe the program what they will actually do but we need to state the broad level
requirement.
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Who can Apply for an Accreditation?
• An engineering degree-awarding program approved by an appropriate authority, namely, the UGC
or any other appropriate government body.
• A duration of four years after twelve years of schooling.
• At least one cohort has graduated from the program.
• Program pedagogy follows outcome-based education.
• Requires a minimum of 130 total credit hours.

Definition of Semester Credit Hour


Lecture Classes: One semester credit hour will be awarded for a minimum of 750 minutes of formalized
classroom instruction (contact hours) in a semester. Laboratory Classes: One semester credit hour will be
awarded for a minimum of 1500 minutes of classroom/laboratory/studio/project/dissertation (contact hours) in a
semester.

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We remember - always
• Accreditation is voluntary and programs are considered for review and accreditation only at the written
request of the educational institution.
• Accreditation is granted only to programs and not to the institution as a whole.
• The same program offered at different campuses of an institution must be accredited separately at each
campus.
• The degree title of a BAETE-accredited program must properly reflect the content of the education
provided, including the field of specialization, and it must appear on all formal documents issued by the
institution (e.g., transcripts, certificates of graduation, and certificates of enrollment).
• The program and degree title(s) of non-accredited program(s) offered by the same institution must be
clearly distinguishable from those of an accredited program.
• No changes in the name/title of an accredited program shall be made without the prior approval of the
BAETE.

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New programs can perform a pre-evaluation

A new program may ask the BAETE to evaluate its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for
and concerns for future accreditation when its most senior cohort is in its second year.

The Evaluation Team will identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and concerns in its
report without expressing approval or disapproval of the program.

Pre-evaluation is NOT an accreditation decision, but helps the program to glide through a
future accreditation process successfully.

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Accreditation Decision Process
Application IEB

1. Submits

5. Informs 4. Notifies
BAETE Board
2. Appoints

Consistency
Check

5. Publishes Decision 3. Submits


Recommendation Institutional
Evaluation Response

Dissemination of
decisions

Time taken between Step 1 and Step 5: 9 months


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Appeal
• The program has the right to request a review of an accreditation decision through filing
an appeal.

• Appeal is a process completely independent from the process involved in making the
decisions.
• Appeal is the last process to resolve a dispute.
• The Appellate Committee is an independent committee consisting of three members,
including the Chair.
• Its members are selected from among the former Board members, former Sectoral
Committee members, and former Evaluation Team Chairs and are appointed by the IEB
President after discussion with the Chair of the IEB Ethics Committee. The tenure of the
Appellate Committee is three years.

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Renewal
• An institution may apply for the renewal of a program’s accreditation by submitting an application at least
six months before the expiration of the current accreditation.

• The application must be accompanied by an SAR, which should include an account of the shortcomings
identified by the previous Evaluation Team and the extent to which these shortcomings have been
addressed.

• Significant improvements that have been achieved since the last accreditation visit, particularly through the
continuous quality improvement mechanism, should be highlighted.

• All other processes, including the on-site visit and the decision-making process, shall be the same as noted
for the first accreditation.

• It is all about maintaining a continuity. Has the program applied for a renewal at a right time?
• It is all about measuring the improvement of the system, since the last accreditation visit.
• Were you not a member of the past team? Does it matter? – Benchmarks of all judgements are similar – we need
to be rational.
• Is it a simpler process than evaluating a new program?

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