Accreditation and Curriculum Leadership Session Tuncay Dogeroglu, Hasan Mandal, Paul Peercy, Sarah Rajala, Satish Udpa Global Engineering Dean Council Buenos Aires October 16, 2012

Panelists Michael K.J. Milligan, Executive Director, ABET, USA Timur Dogu, Vice Chair, Engineering Programs Accreditation Board, MUDEK/MAK, Turkey Ramamurthy Natarajan, Former Chairman AICTE, Former Director, IIT Madras, India Lilliana Cuenca Pletsch, Dean, Universitad Technologica Nacional, Argentina Roelf Sandenbergh, Dean, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Questions How can accreditation encourage the inclusion of global challenges into the curriculum development processes? What is your experience related to this topic? How can GEDC assist and encourage curricular change, such as the inclusion of global challenges? Can accreditation facilitate the integration of global challenges into engineering curricula?

Format Each panelist will give a 7 minute presentation Open discussion for 30 minutes Summary of deliberations – Dean Paul Peercy