On Quality Assurance Mechanisms in Engineering Education: A Case Study of Purdue University

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.126How to use a DOI?

Keywords

quality assurance; engineering education; ABET; accreditation; EC2000; continuous quality improvement

Abstract

The ABET EC2000 reform has had a range of different impacts on U.S. universities and colleges as they work to meet accreditation standards. This paper uses Purdue University as a case study of these processes. The quality assurance mechanisms in engineering education at Purdue are deeply analyzed and presented based on data from interviews with 10 key stakeholders involved with ABET accreditation at Purdue. All stakeholders were also asked to share their views about other internal quality assurance mechanisms and current efforts to assure the quality of engineering education. The interviews were systematically analyzed using qualitative coding procedures, including inductive and deductive coding. The main data analysis tool was NVIVO 10.0. This paper finds that Purdue, as a research-oriented university, has set up a relatively well-integrated internal quality assurance system of engineering education.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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