1. 1 EAB progress during the Meeting Series 17 November 2007, OpCom/FinCom Moshe Kam

2. 2 Items on the agenda of Boards l IEEE Board of Directors l HKN – passed l and endorsed by FINCOM l First Professional Degree in Engineering – pending l A few requests from IEEE-USA l Accreditation policy – pending l Reviewed in the plenary session with no obvious objections l IEEE/USA and RAB: reports on TISP

3. 3 Other items for committee reports l Products and Services: Expert Now l FINCOM: HKN l FINCOM: 2008 budget

4. 4 Other topics l Munich Summit l History Center Wiki l EMCCs request to hand-off non- ethics cases to EAB l Meetings about CAST and ICACIT l Meeting of CGAA l Meeting with President Terman (IGEN)

5. 5 Web presence: Accreditation.org The Ultimate Resource for Engineering, Computing and Technology Accreditation l A new IEEE service launched last week l We want to make it the premier on-line resource on accreditation l It covers all branches of engineering, computing and technology l …and it has IEEEs name on it l along with our partners: IBM and the New York Hall of Science

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7. 7 Accreditation.org l It introduces and covers (almost) all accrediting agencies worldwide l Along with all the programs that they cover l University and Program Searches are available l Over all accredited programs l All international accords are available l Links to research articles and presentations about accreditation

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9. 9 2008 Vice President for Educational Activities Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou l Professor and Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratories in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers l Chair of the Department for 10 years l Founding Fellow of AIMBE l Fellow of IEEE l Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine l Member, Editorial Board, Expert Now l Chair, EAB Biometrics Certification Working Group

10. 10 Questions or Comments