Accreditation of Spanish engineering programs, first experiences. The case of the Terrassa School of Engineering
Submitted: 2016-02-10
|Accepted: 2016-02-19
|Published: 2016-03-22
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Keywords:
Internal Quality Assurance System, Programme assessment, Accreditation, European higher education area
Supporting agencies:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Escola d'Enginyeria de Terrassa (UPC-EET)
Abstract:
The implementation of the European Space for Higher Education has entailed new requirements for Spanish Higher Education Programs. Regulations (RD 1393, 2007) stablish that university programs, in order to have official validity, must be submitted to an external evaluation process before their official implementation, denominated Validation, and to an ex-post process or Accreditation. Terrassa School of Engineering (EET) was one of the first schools in Spain to adapt to the European Space for Higher Education, in the academic period 2009-10 and then, one of the first university institutions submitted to an accreditation process. In this communication, the important role of the Internal Quality Assurance System in the assessment of the school’s programs is exposed as well as the approach followed in the key steps of the process: Accreditation
References:
AQU. 2013. Agencia per la Qualitat de sistema universitari de catalunya. GUIA PER AL SEGUIMENT DE LES TITULACIONS OFICIALS DE GRAU I MÀSTER. versió 1.0. 2013.
EET. 2015. Escuela de Ingenieria de Terrassa. EET-UPC. [En línea] 04 de junio de 2015. [Citado el: 04 de junio de 2015.] http://www.eet.upc.edu/intranet/direccio/autoinforme-acreditacio-final.
GPAQ. 2015. Gabinet de Planificació, Avaluació i Qualitat UPC. [En línea] 2015. [Citado el: 04 de junio de 2015.] http://www.upc.edu/gpaq.
RD 1393. 2007. REAL DECRETO 1393/2007, de 29 de octubre, por el que se establece la ordenación de las enseñanzas universitarias oficiales. 2007.
