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Composition and Selection of Evaluation Team

The BAETE maintains a data bank of its trained program evaluators from which potential Evaluation Team are selected. This data bank will be updated periodically. The program evaluators may be active or retired professionals.

Each Evaluation Team will consist of three members:

a)
A Chairperson
b)
Two Program Evaluators

The members of the Evaluation Team will be drawn from the following:

a)
Academic institutions of repute
b)
R&D laboratories and establishments
c)
The government
d)
Corporation/industry.

Industry Program Evaluators will be drawn from the domain areas relevant to the program. The Chairperson must not be below the rank of professor (or equivalent in the case of industry) and should have significant experience through previous participation as a program evaluator.

Normally, program evaluators from academia will be required to possess the following:

a)
   Significant teaching and research experience in the university and good standing in their respective disciplines
b)
   Demonstrable expertise in engineering education and/or a specific engineering discipline through publication and/or technology development
c)
   Good knowledge and skills for conduction program evaluations, obtained through training by BAETE or other accreditation bodies
d)
   A Ph.D. or equivalent as the highest academic degree

Normally, the program evaluators from industry will be required to possess the following:

a)
   Significant industrial experience, generally not less than 10 years of considerable engineering/managerial experience
b)
   Demonstrable expertise in the specific engineering discipline of the program to be evaluated for accreditation
c)
   Good knowledge and skills for conducting program evaluation, obtained through training by BAETE or other accreditation bodies
d)
   A rank equivalent to senior manager or higher, preferably with post-graduate qualifications