European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education

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European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education
Founded2006
Typeaisbl (belgian law)
FocusQuality assurance of engineering higher education
Location
Area served
Europe and worldwide
Products EUR-ACE label
Key people
Damien Owens, president (2019–...)
Website enaee.eu

The European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE) was established in 2006 as an organization to promote quality in engineering education across Europe and beyond. It is rooted in the Bologna process which aims to build the European Higher Education Area.
Membership of ENAEE is open to all bodies concerned with educational and professional standards in engineering. Such bodies may include accreditation and quality assurance agencies, professional organisations, associations of higher education institutions, employers' associations, and engineering student bodies and their associations.

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Mission and activities

ENAEE is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission [1] is to serve the public and society through the promotion and advancement of engineering education in Europe and abroad. ENAEE aims at building a pan-European framework for the accreditation of engineering education programmes, to enhance the quality of engineering graduates, to facilitate the mobility of professional engineers and to promote quality and innovation in engineering education.
To achieve these goals, ENAEE has established and regularly updates the EUR-ACE label Framework Standards and Guidelines (EAFSG) as a set of quality standards for the outcomes of the engineering degree programmes, the training institutions and the accreditation agencies. EAFSG's are intended to be applied to all branches of engineering and to qualify graduates to enter the engineering profession and to have their qualifications recognised throughout the area. [2]
ENAEE has established the EUR-ACE label for engineering degree programmes which fulfil the EAFSG standards [3] requirements for student workload, programme outcomes and programme management; as of mid-2019, more than 2 000 EUR-ACE labels have been awarded at Bachelor and Master Level [4] within the European Higher Education Area and beyond>.
ENAEE does not accredit directly engineering degree programmes; after evaluation of their policies and procedures, it authorizes accreditation and quality assurance agencies to award the EUR-ACE label to the engineering degree programmes which these agencies accredit. As of mid-2019, 15 agencies are authorized by ENAEE. They signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement, known as the EUR-ACE Accord, whereby they accept each other's accreditation decisions in respect of bachelor's and master's degree programmes.
As of end 2018, more than 2 000 EUR-ACE labels were awarded to engineering degree programmes in 300 universities and other higher education institutions, in countries both within and outside of Europe. [5]

EUR-ACE framework standards and Guidelines

In 2006, ENAEE set the standards (ESG) which assure the quality of engineering degree programmes in both Europe and internationally ; to accommodate the different historic traditions of engineering teaching within different countries, the framework does not focus on the study programme contents, but specifies the outcomes [6] of the accredited programmes.
In line with the level 6 and 7 of the European Qualifications Framework, the outcomes describe the knowledge, understanding, skills and abilities, which an accredited engineering degree programme must enable a graduate to demonstrate. In the ENAEE framework, they are grouped under six headings:

In 2014, a major revision of the framework was undertaken to reflect the experience gained from the beginning and was published in 2015. [7]

Organization of ENAEE

ENAEE is an International Association, registered in Belgium as an association without lucrative purpose. ENAEE members are organisations concerned with engineering education and/or profession, and in particular with accreditation. There are two membership categories: full members and associate members. As of January 2022, [8] ENAEE has 19 full members and 8 associate members.
Beside the bodies (General Assembly, Administrative Council) common to all not-for-profit associations, ENAEE has a Label Committee (LC), composed of one representative of each accreditation agency. The LC makes recommendations to the Administrative Council in relation to the granting of the EUR-ACE labels to engineering education programmes.

Presidents of ENAEE

ENAEE full members (2022)

Source: [9]

  1. Flag of Switzerland.svg AAQ – Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance
  2. Flag of Chile.svg Acredita CI – Agencia Acreditadora Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile
  3. Flag of Russia.svg AEER – Association for Engineering Education of Russia
  4. Flag of Spain.svg ANECA – National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain
  5. Flag of Romania.svg ARACIS – The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
  6. Flag of Germany.svg ASIIN – Fachakkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Informatik, der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik e.V. – Germany
  7. Flag of France.svg CTI – Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur – France
  8. Flag of Great Britain.svg EC – Engineering Council – Great Britain
  9. Flag of Ireland.svg EI – Engineers Ireland
  10. Flag of Finland.svg FINEEC – Kansallinen Koulutuksen Arviointikeskus Karvi – Finland
  11. Flag of Peru.svg ICACIT – Instituto de Calidad y Acreditación de Programas de Computación, Ingeniería y Tecnología en ingeniería - Perú.
  12. Flag of Spain.svg IIE – Instituto de la Ingeniería de España
  13. JEA – Jordan Engineers Association
  14. Flag of Poland.svg KAUT – Accreditation Commission of Universities of Technology – Poland
  15. Flag of Kazakhstan.svg KazSEE – Kazakhstan Society for Engineering Education
  16. Flag of Turkey.svg Müdek – Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs – Turkey
  17. Flag of Portugal.svg OE – Ordem dos Engenheiros – Portugal
  18. Flag of Italy.svg Quacing – Agenzia per la Certificazione di Qualità e l'Accreditamento EUR-ACE dei Corsi di Studio in Ingegneria- Italy
  19. Flag of Slovakia.svg ZSVTS – Association of Slovak Scientific and Technological Societies

History of ENAEE

The European Standing Observatory for the Engineering Profession and Education (ESOEPE) was established in September 2000. Its aim was to improve systems of accreditation of engineering degree programmes in Europe. In 2004, ESOEPE submitted a proposal to the European Commission. This proposal envisaged the establishment of a quality label (the EUR-ACE Label) which could be awarded to engineering degree programmes which had reached certain educational standards, as defined by their learning outcomes. The proposal was accepted by the European Commission and funding provided for the project.
The EUR-ACE label was listed among the six EC-sponsored "European quality labels in higher education". [10] With the support of the European Commission, ENAEE developed projects to disseminate the EUR-ACE system respectively: in the European Union ; PRO-EAST in Russia ; QUEECA [11] in Central Asia ; MEDACCR [12] in South Mediterranean countries.

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References

  1. ↑ ENAEE missions and objectives
  2. ↑ Augusti, Giuliano (2006). "Transnational recognition and accreditation of engineering educational programmes in Europe: Perspectives in a global framework". European Journal of Engineering Education. 31 (3): 249–260. doi:10.1080/03043790600644370. S2CID   111268115.
  3. ↑ EUR-ACE® framework standards and Guidelines
  4. ↑ European qualifications framework
  5. ↑ Database of EUR-ACE® labelled programmes
  6. ↑ "A Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected Desired/Learning Outcomes in Engineering". OECD Education Working Papers. 2011. doi:10.1787/5kghtchn8mbn-en. hdl: 10216/70622 .{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ↑ Manual of the EUR-ACE-Framework-Standards-and-Guidelines (2015)
  8. ↑ "Members".
  9. ↑ "Members".
  10. ↑ "Agreement of Co-Operation between the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) and the Network of Central and Eastern European Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEEN)" (PDF). ECA Consortium. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  11. ↑ Guberti, Elisa; Borri, Claudio; Betti, Michele; Quadrado, Jose Carlos (2015). "Capacity building approach for EUR-ACE accreditation in Central Asia: QUEECA TEMPUS project advancements". 2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL). pp. 43–47. doi:10.1109/ICL.2015.7318221. hdl:2158/1052103. ISBN   978-1-4799-8707-8. S2CID   19577650.
  12. ↑ On-line Quality Assurance and EUR-ACE Accreditation of Engineering Programmes in Mediterranean Area
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