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Seminar Notice: "Outcomes Based Accreditation of Engineering Degrees"
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SEMINAR NOTICE
Faculty of Science Technology & Environment
SEP Research Seminar Series 2012 – 2013
Professor R M {Bob} Hodgson
Emeritus Professor
Massey University, New Zealand
“Outcomes Based Accreditation of Engineering Degrees”
DATE : THURSDAY, 19TH JULY 2012
Venue: N111 Lecture Theatre
Date/Time: 5:00 – 6:00pm
Abstract
This presentation will include a description of the Washington Accord and an explanation of both outcomes based engineering education and course design. Finally, an account will be given of a typical visit by an accreditation panel. The talk will be based on the wide experience of the presenter in designing degree programs for subsequent accreditation, as a member of accreditation panels and as a member of international panels monitoring national accreditation systems in action as nations seek to join or confirm their membership of the Washington accord.
Biography
Emeritus Professor Bob Hodgson studied at the University of Bradford with six months of each year spent in the aircraft electronics industry. He graduated with an honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1968 and completed the training requirements of the IEE in 1969. After one year of postgraduate experience working on ultra-reliable systems for aircraft flight control, he commenced his PhD studies at the University of Nottingham. His sponsored research involved studies and modeling of human visual perception through image intensifiers. His PhD was completed in two years and nine months. He next gained one of the very few University Lectureships offered in the UK in 1972 and joined Professor DA Bell’s pioneering Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Hull.
In 1975, he took up a Lectureship in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Canterbury NZ and in 1976 he started research in applied digital image processing. This is the field in which he made many contributions, and in which he is internationally recognized. He has published 135 papers, supervised 24 masters and 13 PhDs to completion and gained substantial industrial research funding.
He was appointed to the Chair of Information Engineering at Massey University in 1988 and shortly became a Head of Department and later a Head of Institute.
Professor Hodgson was a founder member of the New Zealand Council of Engineering Deans {NZCED}. Established in 2001 the Council consists of one representative, from each of the Institutions offering an accredited four-year engineering degree. He chaired the Council from 2003 to 2008 providing continuity and leadership during a period of rapid change. He is well known and respected in the relevant industrial sector and the profession. In 2000 he was appointed to the Engineers Registration Board nominated by the Minister of Commerce. He subsequently became a member of the interim Chartered Professional Engineers Council helping to negotiate the details of the then, new registration system.
From 2003 to 2009 he served on the IPENZ Standards and Accreditation Board (SAB). The Board is concerned with membership standards in the profession plus the accreditation of engineering degree under the Washington Sydney Accords He has served on numerous degree accreditation panels and on an IPENZ task group reviewing the academic requirements for accreditation of engineering degrees. Under the Washington Accord for the international recognition of professional engineering degrees, the national accreditation systems of nations seeking membership are scrutinized by international panels. Professor Hodgson has become an expert on this process having served on five international panels {Taiwan, Korea (twice), and Malaysia (twice)}. He has chaired panels to both Korea and Malaysia.
All Welcome to Attend.
Light Refreshments will be provided.
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