(Constituted under Pakistan Engineering Council Act, 1976 enacted by the Parliament)

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February 12, 2013

Press Release

Training on OBA System of Accreditation Starts

Islamabad, February 12, 2013: A two-day training on Outcome Based Assessment System of
Accreditation started was organized by Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) in collaboration with Higher
Education Commission (HEC) for program evaluators of PEC.
Prof. Ir. Megat Johari Megat Mohammad Noor and Ir. Azlan Abdul Aziz from Board of Engineers
Malaysia conducted the technical sessions as resource persons. The training was aimed at enhancing the
capacity of senior engineering faculty and PECs engineering program evaluators regarding new Outcome
Based Assessment System of Accreditation concepts required for quality assurance of engineering
education in Pakistan to bring it at par with international standards.
Initially a batch of 40 evaluators has been trained. These trained experts will serve as master trainers for
rest of the evaluators and reviewers in the country. In order to ensure quality of engineering education,
PEC regularly organizes on-site visits of expert evaluators to the engineering universities and institutions.
Accreditation is awarded by PEC to the engineering universities based on evaluation reports submitted by
these evaluators.
PEC has been continuously arranging accreditation training programs for the evaluators and experts since
the attainment of provisional signatory status of Washington Accord of International Engineering Alliance
(IEA), a consortium of engineering bodies from developed countries that recognizes the substantial
equivalency of engineering educational programs accredited by those bodies and recommends that
graduates of programs accredited by any of the signatory bodies be recognized by the other bodies as
having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering. Pakistan Engineering
Council (PEC) represented Pakistan in IEA meetings to benefit substantial equivalence of its engineering
qualification and mobility of our engineering graduates across the borders. Pakistan was accepted as
provisional signatory of Washington Accord in June 2010.
Both the resource persons of said training were also nominated as mentors to evaluate Pakistans progress
on roadmap towards full signatory status of Washington Accord. In order to synchronize the accreditation
procedures with international standards, PEC has been following and adopting the procedures as
prescribed and practiced by other Washington Accord signatories.
The mentors also visited Institute of Space Technology (IST) Islamabad as part of their mentoring and
evaluation plan. It is expected that this mentoring visit and training workshop will pave the way in
attainment of full signatory status of Washington Accord in near future.
The full signatories of Washington Accord include Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United
Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong China, South Africa, Japan, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Korea and
Malaysia while provisional signatories include Germany, Pakistan, India, Russia, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

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