Ajou News

NEW Ajou courses win ABEEK preliminary certification

  • 2008-07-29
  • 34633

Ajou courses win ABEEK preliminary certification


All the courses that submitted applications (i.e. ten courses of the College of Engineering and two courses of the College of Information Technology (Please see the following for the list.) obtained preliminary certifications from the Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK)

Ajou University Engineering Education Innovation Center Director Kim Gong-hwan said, "Korea became a full member of the Washing Accord in June 2007. Thus, conditions for the ABEEK certification have been made the more rigorous. From this year on, the eight conditions should all be satisfied for the preliminary certification. Until last year, applicants had only to meet six out of the eight conditions, i.e. educational objective for the course, learning performance and evaluation for the course, curriculum category, students, faculty, educational environment, improvement in education, certification standards for major areas. The certification of all the courses shows the sheer quality of educational courses of this school."

A total of 19 universities, including Ajou, applied for the certification. Our school plans to submit a self evaluation report to the ABEEK by January 2009, the ABEEK is scheduled to pay a visit to our school in May 2009 for first-hand appraisal and the results of the main certification will be known by January 2010.

ABEEK is a system of quality guarantee concerning an engineering education course. The certification means that students who have finished the relevant course are equipped with the internationally competitive working-level engineering capability. As Korea has become a member of the Washington Accord, graduates of the ABEEK-certified courses are eligible for apply for professional engineer examinations carried out in the U.S., the U.K, Australia and Canada and are treated equally with graduates of local universities at workplaces in more industrialized countries.


* The ten courses of the College of Engineering:
Mechanical Engineering, Industrial & Information Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material & Science Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering, Construction System Engineering, Transportation System Engineering and Architectural Engineering. The two courses of the College of Information Technology: i.e. Electronics Engineering and Information & Computer Engineering



Ajou University