Get Pec Accreditation
The process of accreditation initially launched through inspection of examinations during
early 80’s, evolved over time; benchmarking with the best international practices it
transformed into a formalized process published in 2007 as the first Manual of Accreditation.
This manual employed concepts of quality assurance in Engineering Education adopted by
developed countries, and devised a systematic quantitative assessment mechanism against
a set of well-defined accreditation criteria. After becoming provisional member of WA in June
2010, PEC made significant efforts to transform engineering education in Pakistan by
introducing the concept of Outcome Based Education (OBE) as a paradigm shift, and
transitioned towards OBA accreditation system adopting the guidelines followed by member
countries of International Engineering Alliance (IEA). Accordingly, the Manual of
Accreditation was revised in 2014 to not only shift the focus of accreditation from quantitative
to qualitative assessment, but also to emphasize practicing Environment, Health and Safety
(EHS) concepts, Complex Engineering Problem (CEP) solutions, Problem Based Learning
(PBL) and Open-Ended Labs, etc. targeting embodiment of the desired 12 Graduate
Attributes Exemplars in the engineering graduates. These efforts bore fruit when Pakistan
was declared as full signatory of Washington Accord (WA) of International Engineering
Alliance (IEA) in June 2017, after a comprehensive evaluation of PEC accreditation system
by three WA Signatory’s team comprising of Dr. Jung Soo Kim of South Korea (ABEEK), Mr.
Colin Peter Smith of United Kingdom (ECUK), led by Mr. Basil Wakelin of New Zealand
(EngNZ).
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