1. Faculty of Engineering
Accreditation of Engineering Programmes and the Way Forward
Dinesh Kumar Hurreeram
25 October 2018

2. Challenges
Eroding enrolment rate for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
Decreasing quality of enrolment
Unsatisfactory throughput for undergraduate programmes
Increasing competition from local and international HEIs
Inability to attract the best scholars on research programmes
Inadequate research to meet the needs of the economy
Inadequate strategic partnerships relationships with other universities

3. Aim
A team of motivated academic, technical, administrative and support staff
International recognition of academic programmes
Appropriate infrastructure for a conducive learning and research environment
Funding in relation to capacity building and infrastructure development

4. Proposals Internationalization of academic programmes
Faculty-Industry Linkage
Faculty Support and Infrastructure
Student Experience

5. Internationalization
Accreditation of Engineering Programmes
Formal request to ECSA
Desktop review
Accreditation visit
Collaboration with CRPE/IEM to achieve Washington Accord Signatory Status
Academics and research outcomes on Research platforms and databases (Researcher ID, ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia, Linkedin)
Professional Affiliation (IEM, ICE, IMechE, IEEE, CRPE, IET etc…)
Projects in collaboration with research led universities
Implementation of Learner Centred Credit System (LCCS based on ECTS)

6. Faculty-Industry Linkage
Consultative Meeting (Sector Specific)
Research agenda department specific
Collaborative projects to support the engineering sector
Specific competency requirements in different engineering fields
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programmes recognized by the CRPE
Consultancy
Offer of programmes to match resources/competences available
Phasing out of low demand academic programmes
Bidding for local/regional/international research grants
Funding for specific projects

7. Faculty Support and Infrastructure
Human and capital resource planning (3 year plan)
Recruitment
Capacity building
Investment in tools and equipment
Space audit (labs, lecture rooms, office, car park etc…)
Refurbishment of labs
Redesign of lecture rooms (e.g. Flipped classroom)
Administrative support to departments
Infrastructure maintenance and development

8. Student Experience Core competences at department level Admin support
Integrated MIS system
Fully online exams administration and management
Extra curricular activities (e.g. Student Chapters)
Work environment
Relationship management

9. Re-engineer NOW for the long term sustainability of the engineering Faculty
Thank YOU