New directions in engineering accreditation

Recent decades have seen internationalization of the engineering practices thus making engineering education an international enterprise. Graduates from a certain engineering program may have to work not only in a different state (in case of USA) or a different country. The graduate may also be working in a multinational company. This situation further increases the interest among the institutes to get their program accredited. An accredited degree program is the one that has gone through a rigorous quality control system and has been approved by a national or international accrediting agency or organization. The importance of graduating from such programs is growing with the increasing demand of global engineers.