«Quality of Engineering Education in Central Asia»

Duration: October 15, 2012 - October 14,2015

http://www.queeca.eu

QUEECA is a TEMPUS project which aims at setting up and implementing a system of Quality Assurance of Engineering Education (EE) in Central Asia countries, finalized to the pre-professional accredition of engineering programmes (i.e. accredition of educational programmes as entry route to the engineering profession). The accredited programmes must satisfy the same pre-requisites for the award of the EUR-ACE quality label, i.e. the EUR-ACE Framework Standards (EAFS) and the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

The aims will be achieved by the creation of a network of National QA/accreditation Agencies (and possibly a Regional Federation) able to accredit engineering programmes and authorized by ENAEE to award the EUR-ACE quality label, through the following steps:

• Create a National EE Society where it does not exist (in Kazakhstan, strengthen the existing KazSEE) and a CA Federation of EE Societies, partnered with SEFI and IFEES.
• Adapt the EAFS and formulate analogous CA Standards (CAEAS) in Russian and English.
• Create Accreditation Centers in each CA country (with a Regional coordination); train the relevant "accreditors".
• Run a series of Trial Accreditations with international teams to test the draft CAEAS and the local accreditors.
• Taking into account the Trial Accreditations results, formulate the final version of CAEAS.
• Conduct a first run of pilot accreditation of engineering programs and award the first EUR-ACE labels in CA.
• Formulate a self-supporting financial plan for carrying out accreditation after the project closure.

Partners

QUEECA involves 4 out of 5 TEMPUS countries in CA. The three-year QUEECA initiative is led by the University of Firenze, School of Engineering under the leadership of Prof. Claudio Borri. The QUEECA consortium includes European partners from Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom and Central Asian partners from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.

European partners:

• P1 Università di Firenze - Facoltà di Ingegneria - Firenze, Italy
• P2 ASIIN e v. -  Duesseldorf, Germany
• P3 European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education ENAEE - Bruxelles, Belgium
• P4 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, ISEL
• Lisboa, Portugal
• P5 Middlesex University - London, United Kingdom
• P6 QUACING Agency - Rome, Italy
• P7 Ruhr University Bochum - Bochum, Germany
• P8 Société Européenne pour la formation des Ingénieurs SEFI,  Bruxelles,Belgium
• P9 Sapienza Università di Roma - Roma, Italy
• P10 Università degli Studi di Genova - Genoa, Italy

Central Asia partners:

• P11 Aktobe State University after K. Zhubanov ASU – Aktobe - Kazakhstan
• P12 "D.Serikbayev" East Kazakhstan State Technical University – EKSTU - Ust Kamnenogorsk - Kazakhstan
• P13 Al Farabi Kazakh National University - KaZNU – Almaty - Kazakhstan
• P14 Kazakhstan Society for Engineering Education - KazSEE - Ust-Kamenogorsk - Kazakhstan
• P15 Karaganda State Technical University -KSTU KZ – Karaganda - Kazakhstan
• P16 Ministry of education and science of Kazakhstan Republic MESKR KZ – Astana - Kazakhstan
• P17 M. Azuezov South Kazakhstan State University  - M-Auezov SKSU - Shymkent City – Kazakhstan
• P18 Education Network – EdNet - Bishkek City Kyrgyzstan
• P19 Kyrgyz State Technical University -  KSTU KG -  Bishkek - Kyrgyzstan
• P20  Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transport and Architecture named after I. Isanov - KSUCTA Bishkek,  Kyrgyzstan
• P21 Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyz Republic -  MESKR KG – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
• P22 State Inspection on Licensing and Attestation of Educational Institutions of Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyz Republic - SILAEIMESKR- Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
• P23 Ministry of Education of Republic of Tajikistan - ME of the RT – Dushanbe , Tajikistan
• P24 Mining Metallurgical Institute of Tajikistan – MMIT – Chkalovsk, Tajikistan
• P25 Tajik Technical University named after academician M.S. Osimi – TTU – Dushanbe , Tajikistan
• P26 Ministry of Higher Education Republic of Uzbekistan – MHSSE – Tashkent , Uzbekistan
• P27 Tashkent State Technical University named after Abu Raikhon Beruni – TSTU – Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• P28 Tashkent University of Information Technologies -  TUIT – Tashkent , Uzbekistan

Project coordinator at the EKSTU:

Dr.Yerken Turganbayev, Director of the Institute of Post-University Training and New Educational Technologies

Members of the working Group:

• Duzkeneva Nayla - Head of the Quality Management Department;
• Garkusha Anna - Head of International Cooperation Department;
• Tyutyunkova Tatyana – Engineer of Organizational and Methodical Department of Quality Management Department;
• Rakhmetullina Saule - Head of Sub-Department "Mathematical and computer modeling."

EKSTU report of the Tempus - QUEECA project results (17.11.2017)