ABET Accreditation of International Technology Programs - A Team Chair's Perspective

摘要

ABET has taken an active role in the global quality assurance process for technical education programs through numerous agreements with organizations worldwide. These include Mutual Recognition Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding. ABET conducts an accreditation review outside the U.S. only with explicit permission from all applicable national education authorities in that program's country or region. In order to seek accreditation by ABET, programs outside of U.S. must have each appropriate education authority, recognition, or accreditation agency complete a request for approval form to be submitted with formal request for evaluation. The ABET accreditation process for programs located outside of the United States is identical to the accreditation process for programs within the U.S. ABET requires a program seeking accreditation in a country where English is not the native language must provide its program name both in English and in the native language. It also requires the English translation of the program name should be based on the technical content and not the literal translation of the program name so that ABET can designate the appropriate accreditation commission and determine the applicable criteria. ABET has started accrediting international technology programs through Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC - Technology Accreditation Commission TAC before 2012) about eight years ago.