EUR-ACE Label Committee of ENAEE Meeting to Be Held in İstanbul

EUR-ACE Label Committee meeting of ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education) will be held in İstanbul on February 02, 2012. Erbil Payzın will be representing MÜDEK in this meeting.

Application Regulations for 2012-2013 Accreditation Cycle Determined

For the application regulations to MÜDEK accreditation in 2012-2013 accreditation cycle, click here >>>>>. ATTENTION: Application deadline is January 31, 2012.

New Version of MÜDEK Directive on Policies and Procedures for Evaluation and Accreditation Published

Version 1.3 (in Turkish, its English version yet to be published) of MÜDEK Directive on Policies and Procedures for Evaluation and Accreditation is published. New version of the Directive is created by the amendments made at the MÜDEK Executive Board meeting held on October 29, 2011. Important changes made in the Directive are summarized below.

• Item 5.1(i): This is a new sub item. The self assessment report of a program applying for accreditation first time will be pre-evaluated by MAK. If some reporting and/or criteria shortcomings are found that will result in a not to accredit action for the program, the accreditation evaluation of that program will be ceased.
• Items 5.1 and 5.2: Some new provisions are added to various sub items of these sub items. Program applications will be assumed to be withdrawn if programs do not request accreditation evaluation by its deadline or they do not submit their self assessment / interim reports by their deadline.
• Item 6(a): Team chairs may also be selected among experienced program evaluators who served as a MÜDEK evaluator at least two evaluation cycles before.
• Item 9(a): In order to synchronize the MÜDEK evaluations of all programs of an institution, next general reviews of already accredited programs of that institution may be conducted in six years or less than five years instead of five years, if needed.
• Item 9(c): In interim evaluations, if some shortcomings and observations exist that were not cited in the previous evaluation and if they determined to be arisen after the previous evaluation, then they will be considered under the Item 14 and they will affect the accreditation decision for the program.
• Item 9(i-2): During the process of forming the final report to be given to the institution, the exit statement may be mitigated for various reasons but it may also be worsened if needed.
• Item 11(h-6, h-7): Show Cause is separated into two as Show Cause Visit (SCV) and Show Cause Report (SCR).
• Item 12(b): This is a new sub item. A regulation is made on those programs that will be removed from the List of Accredited Programs at the end of their accreditation duration granted before.
• A set of editorial improvements are made and some explanatory statements are added to clarify the meaning of several items.

Paper on MÜDEK Criteria Published in Engineer and Machinery (Mühendis ve Makina) Periodical

The paper titled MÜDEK Accreditation Criteria: Their Importance and Most Commonly Encountered Shortcomings prepared by Bülent E. Platin, member of MÜDEK Executive Board, is published in the October 2011 issue (No. 621) of Engineer and Machinery (Mühendis ve Makina), a periodical published by TMMOB (The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects) Chamber of Mechanical Engineers. (Paper , Abstract)

2011 List of Accredited Programs Published

The list of programs accredited by MÜDEK for the year 2011 is updated and published as of June 30, 2011.

MÜDEK Becomes Signatory of Washington Accord

The application of MÜDEK to become a Signatory of Washington Accord was accepted by an unanimous vote in the IEA (International Engineering Alliance) Washington Accord meeting on June 15, 2011, during the IEA Meetings 2011 held in Taipei, Taiwan.