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Objectives
The Boeing Company, in conjunction
with the ABET, Inc., is sponsoring a workshop to familiarize Vietnamese
universities with accreditation requirements for engineering education. Vietnam traditionally has a strong focus
on high-quality education, and accreditation is another step in the direction
of quality improvement while helping Vietnam to be more economically
competitive in engineering and high-technology markets. The workshop seeks to
elucidate the objectives and process of accreditation, and to lead directly
to curriculum planning issues that will enhance the engineering programs in Vietnam. Workshop attendees are expected
to actively participate in the exercises to design or modify an existing
curriculum, examine student advising system, evaluate laboratory
requirements, and institute programs to help faculty improve their expertise
and teaching methods.
Accreditation is a continuous
quality-improvement process, and this workshop is an initial step to provide
a structured approach to engineering education in Vietnam. After the workshop, participants
should be able to examine their own engineering programs in depth, consult
with industry and government partners in educational objectives, revise
curricula, and begin a coordinated plan to improve the quality of engineering
education offered to the students. After the workshop, The Boeing Company
will work with ABET and Vietnamese universities to create an action plan and
to determine the topics and schedules for future workshops.
Agenda
Session 1
1
Overview of
ABET accreditation process (60 minutes)
2
In-depth
presentation of the EC 2000 criteria, with exercises to define Program
Educational Objectives in Criterion 2, to create a rubric for one of
Criterion 3. Each exercise is 15 minutes with discussions of each team's
work. (120 minutes)
Session 2
1
Current ABET
status in international accreditation and IT accreditation (60 minutes)
2
Planning issues
to meet Criterion 1 (especially student advising), Criterion 4 (curriculum planning
for professional components), Criterion 5 (requirements for faculty),
Criterion 6 (facilities), Criterion 7 (institutional support), Criterion 8
(program criteria, engineering or IT)
ABET
Website: http://www.abet.org
For information, please contact Vi Duong (vi.duong@boeing.com)
Guest Speakers
 Patricia Daniels
Associate Dean of the College of Science & Engineering and
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seattle University p.daniels@ieee.org
Patricia D. Daniels received the B.S. and Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of California at Berkeley. She has worked for the Aerospace
Corporation, Westinghouse Aerospace, and The Boeing Company in the areas of
system simulation, optimal control and estimation. She was on the faculty of
the Department of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Washington from 1974-1986. She then joined
Seattle University where she served as Professor and
Chairperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering until 1994 and
currently is Associate Dean of the
College of Science and Engineering. In 1991-1992,
she served as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education
at the National Science Foundation. She has been Chair of the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering
Education, and on the Board of Directors of the Women in Engineering Program
and Advocates Network. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a registered
Professional Engineer in the State of California. In 1991 she was recognized as
Academic Engineer of the Year by the Puget Sound Engineering Council. She is
a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to engineering education” and
received the Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas Outstanding Woman Engineering
Educator Award in 1997. She has been an ABET program evaluator since 1988 and
was on the Engineering Accreditation Commission from 1996-2005, including
serving as EAC Chair in 2003-2004. She has been an international program
evaluator since 1996 and is presently Vice Chair of ABET's International
Accreditation Task Group. She was named an ABET Fellow in 2006.
 Mani Soma, PhD
Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical
EngineeringUniversity of Washington soma@ee.washington.edu
Mani Soma
received the B.S.E.E. degree from California State University Fresno in 1975,
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
Stanford
University in 1977 and
1980 respectively. From 1980 to 1982, he was at the General Electric Research
and Development Center (Schenectady, New York), working on
design and test methodologies for VLSI integrated circuits and systems. He
then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Washington and has been
a Professor since 1988. He was the Associate Director of the NSF Center for Design
of Analog-Digital ICs from 1989 to 1994. He founded and chaired the IEEE
Mixed-Signal Test Bus Standard Working Group (1149.4) from 1991 to 1995, and
remains active in standard development. He was Technical Program Chair for
ISCAS 1995 and helped found the Pacific Northwest Test Workshop, which has
become the annual IEEE International Mixed-Signal Testing Workshop. For these
works, he received the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award (1995)
and the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award (1997). He is a Fellow of the
IEEE for "contributions to mixed analog-digital system
design-for-test." He has been an ABET evaluator for computer engineering
and electrical engineering since 1999 and is now serving on the IEEE
Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities. He has published papers in
electronic design, test, and reliability; and has more recently focused on
research in mixed analog-digital system design and test. He cooks, gardens,
and teaches folk dancing in addition to electrical engineering.
Documentation
Exercise on Outcomes for VN Workshop
Boeing Vietnam Workshop Dec 2006 12-03-06
Accreditation Policy and Procedure
Manual
Criteria for Ccrediting Engineering Programs
Self-study
Questionnaire
Guidelines
to Institutions
Basic-Level
Curriculum
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