Promotion and sustainability of quality assurance in engineering education through academic and professional accreditation

Engineering accreditation is a fiduciary requirement for academic institutions to meet certain educational standards during the duration of registration of such institutions. The status of accreditation should be continuously monitored to ensure that those standards are maintained. This paper opines that accreditation enhances quality and sustainability of engineering education. The totality of quality and sustainability of engineering education includes provision of adequate resources, supply of well qualified applicants from lower-level schools, availability of robust academics, design and delivery of excellent curricula, graduation of students who are registrable by professional bodies and employable by public and private sectors of the economy. Accreditation ensures that qualifications meet quality assurance standards and requirements, establishes a mechanism for verifying qualifications and learning outcomes and articulation strategies. All of these measures can create long term trust in qualifications and enhance movement of learners and graduates across national boundaries.