1. Global Accreditation Activities
IEEE EAB Committee on
Global Accreditation Activities

2. Attendees of the 16 November Meeting
Jose Antonio de la O, CGAA Chair
Dave Baker, APC Chair
Chandrabhan Sharma, Deputy-Dean of Undergraduate Studies of UWI
Don McCloy, Engineers Ireland
Enrique Alvarez, ICACIT Peru
Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas, Universidad Catolica San Pablo, Peru
Moshe Kam, Vice President, Educational Activities
Staff:
Arnie Peskin
Doug Gorham
Sharon Strock
Guests:
Arthur Winston
S.K.Ramesh
Ted Hissey
Eleanor Baum
Seiichi Takeuchi
David Hodges
Matt Loeb

3. Specific Activities accreditation.org launched ICACIT CAST West Indies
Policy Papers
First Professional Degree
Accreditation Policy

4. accreditation.org
Active for one week
Goal is for this site to be the premiere online source on accreditation
Invited others to contribute

5. ICACIT A model governance document was drafted
Additional training of Program Evaluators
10-12 December 2007, Arequipa, Peru
Spanish translation of ABET documents introduced program title ambiguities

6. Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST)
Update: 19 October Meeting in Beijing
Future Program Evaluator training planned
April 2008
Request for outside observers

7. West Indies Update: 21-22 September accreditation workshop in Trinidad
Provide assistance to establish a Caribbean accrediting body
Proposed planning meeting
San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 2008

8. First Professional Degree in Engineering
Moshe characterized the responses to The Institute article
CGAA endorsed EAD’s draft position on the issue

9. Accreditation Policy Paper
The position paper on accreditation was reviewed and discussed
CGAA endorsed the paper with minor amendment and clarification

10. Questions Posed Institution level vs. program accreditation
Need for translation services
To what extent should we support training
ABET
Western Europe
Should we encourage invitation of foreign observers?
Additional IEEE international accreditation opportunities

11. CGAA 2008
It is anticipated that the CGAA will have two face-to-face meetings in 2008
June BoD Series (?)
November BoD Series (?)