MÜDEK BRIEFLY

Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MÜDEK), is a non-governmental organization operating for the purpose of contributing to the enhancement of quality of engineering education in Turkey by means of the accreditation and evaluation of and providing information services for engineering education programs in different disciplines.

MÜDEK was initially established with a name Engineering Evaluation Board as an independent, non-governmental platform in 2002 by the Engineering Deans Council (MDK), which is formed by the deans of faculties administering engineering education programs in Turkey and TRNC, in order to prepare and conduct a comprehensive program for the evaluation of engineering undergraduate programs run by these faculties.  and became a member of ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education) in 2006.

MÜDEK

• started the evaluation of engineering programs in 2003,
• gained its legal entity by transforming into a non-governmental organization on January 25, 2007 with a name Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs, however retaining its acronym MÜDEK,
• recognized by the Higher Education Council (YÖK) of Turkey as the National Quality Assurance Agency in accrediting engineering programs on November 16, 2007,
• authorized by ENAEE to award EUR-ACE Label to engineering programs that it will accredit starting from January 21, 2009 and on and
• became a Provisional Signatory on June 25, 2010 and Full Signatory on June 15, 2011 of Washington Accord of the IEA (International Engineering Alliance).