Accreditation Update

Launch WebinarFall 2010
Track: Accreditation Cost: FREE Presenter: Stu Zweben, Ph.D.

You can download the slides used during the webinar (PDF) for use during the presentation or as a stand-alone summary.

Topics covered in this webinar include:

  • What is the status of harmonized accreditation criteria?
  • What are some of the suggested substantive changes?
  • How will changes be communicated to the programs?
  • What are some common observations across commissions?

Presenter Biography

StuZweben

Stu Zweben, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration, Ohio State University

Stu Zweben is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration at The Ohio State University. He previously was chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Ohio State.

With over 20 years of experience with computing accreditation, Stu is chair of ABET's Accreditation Council, working on matters of common interest to all four commissions. Stu is a former chair of the Computing Accreditation Commission. he also is a former president of CSAB when that organization was responsible for accrediting computer science programs and helped write the computing accreditation criteria. He chaired the criteria committee that ultimately produced the general and program criteria now in use.

Stu also has consulted about computing accreditation both domestically and internationally and has given many presentations about the subject to professional society meetings.

Stu is a Fellow of ABET, a Fellow of CSAB, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He also is a former president of ACM. he received the Ph.D. in computer sciences from Purdue University.

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