BAETE
Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education,
Bangladesh
 
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Each of the accreditation criteria described in byelaws, Volume I have been broken down into parameters. Marks have been assigned to these parameters by the BAETE. This chapter describes these parameters and marks assigned to them, which are different for UG and PG programmes.



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1. MISSION, GOALS AND ORGANISATION

Pointers:        Appropriateness of the mission for higher education; vision for the future, unambiguously verbalized; purpose realistic and within the resource contest; mission and purpose widely understood and implicitly accepted by faculty and administrators; involvement of faculty in decision making/planning/projections; efficiency of governance in ensuring quality.

1.1.   Management
  1. Mission & Goals
  2. Commitment: Meetings of Board of governors/Syndicate
  3. Relation between BOG and faculty
  4. Planning and Monitoring
  5. Incentives

1.2.   Organization and Governance
  1. Leadership
  2. Motivation
  3. Transparency
  4. Decentralization and Delegation
  5. Involvement of faculty
  6. Efficiency


2. FINANCIAL & PHYSICAL RESOURCES AND THEIR UTILIZATION

Pointers:        Financial resources sufficient for running the Programme, maintaining and upgrading equipment; physical resources necessary for achieving the purpose, class-rooms, laboratories appropriately equipped and adequate in size and numbers; facilities in conformity with legal, safety and security requirements; evidence of resource planning linked to academic financial planning.

2.1    Capital resources

2.2    Operational budget

2.3    Maintenance budget

2.4    Development resources and budget

2.5    Land

2.6    Building

2.7    Hostels

2.8    Support Services (Water, electricity, communication, etc.)
        Future Commitment/Plans

2.9    Plans for permanent Infrastructure

2.10   Facilities for future expansion                        

2.11   Office equipment

2.12   Canteen

2.13   Transport

2.14   Medical facilities
100               70







(50)             (30)






(50)             (40)








100               80








(40)             (40)

(40)             (40)





(20)             (20)








(40)             (40)
(UG)            (PG)
300









150


















50                 30

20

15

15

(20)             (20)








300              100





(100)             (20)







(100)             (30)



(50)               (50)





450                250








(150)             (80)


(100)             (40)






(100)             (80)






(100)             (50)








100                50




















70                 100


















30                 150
3. HUMAN RESOURCES: FACULITY & STAFF

Pointers:        Faculty adequate to accomplish the institutional mission and goal; one professor/senior reader in each major area; faculty selection through open advertisement in national papers and qualified selection committee; workload of faculty not to hinder effective performance of teaching and research; supporting staff in sufficient number with adequate qualification and skill; ambience for retaining good faculty; involvement of senior faculty in laboratory development; facilities for quality improvement.

3.1   Faculty

  1. Numbers (a) Full time (b) part time (Equivalent Full time)

  1. Qualifications

  1. Recruitment Procedure Parallel entry-whether encouraged ?

  1. Workload (Teaching, Research, Consultancy, Administration)

  1. Attitudes and Commitment How Measured ?

  1. Faculty Development (QIP, Conference, Continuing Education, Professional Societies, Industrial Exposure, Sabbatical leave, etc.)

  1. Performance Appraisal

  1. Faculty Associations

3.2   Supporting Staff (Teach./Admin.)

  1. Numbers

  1. Qualification

  1. Recruitment Producers

  1. Attitudes and Involvement

  1. Skill Up gradation

  1. Performance Appraisal

  1. Union Activities


4. HUMAN RESOURCES: STUDENTS

Pointers:        Orderly and ethical procedures for admission of students; securing PG admissions as an indicator of quality of teaching/learning Processes; feedback from alumni.

4.1   Admissions

  1. Central or Institutional

  1. Criteria (minimum criteria for different categories)

  1. Admission Policy for lateral entry, if any

4.2   Academic Results

4.3   Admission to Postgraduate Courses

4.4   Employment of graduating students during the past year

4.5   Feedback form employers



5. TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESSES

Pointers:        Broad areas of human knowledge, theories and methods of inquiry besides in-depth study of the identified area; clarity and relevance in curricula; pass-outs to demonstrate in-depth understanding of knowledge/practice; examination of student answer-books, grades, question-papers, team-work and design projects, interview with students and faculty to validate impressions from data.

5.1   Syllabus

5.2   Academic Calendar;
number of instructional days, contact hours per week

5.3   Evaluation procedures and feedback

5.4   Laboratories, Workshops and Equipment (facilities, maintenance and utilisation)

5.5   Computing facilities, maintenance and
Utilization

5.6   Library

5.7   ET facilities, Instructional materials

5.8   Budget for consumables

5.9   Implementation of the Instructional Programme (Lectures, Tutorials, Maintenance of Course Files, Workshops, Lab. Classes, Colloquia, Projects, Teaching aids.)

5.10   Removal of obsolete experiments and introduction of contemporary experiments

6. SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES

Pointers:        Personality development opportunities; services and facilities accessible to students; career counseling, health educational grievance redressal procedures; professional society activities; entrepreneurship development; feedback from alumni & employers.

6.1   Extra & co-curricular activities

6.2   Student counselling and guidance

6.3   Professional society activities

6.4   Entrepreneurship Development

6.5   Alumni Information

6.6   Convocation

6.7   Academic Environment, Student Movements.

7. INDUSTRY-INSTITUTION INTERACTION

Pointers:        Industry's role in Curriculum planning; consultancy and extension lectures; continuing education and industrial internship; visits industrial training.

7.1   Stakeholders participation in curriculum planning

7.2   Continuing education and industrial internship for faculty

7.3   Consultancy

7.4   Industrial visits and Trainings

7.5   Project work

7.6   Extension lectures

7.7   Placement

8. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Pointers:        QIP programmes; faculty research involvement and project quality; sponsored projects: recognition as Centre of excellence; post graduate guidance jointly with industry; evaluation criteria for theses; publications, citations and patents.

8.1   Institutional Budget for Research and Development

8.2   Academic/Sponsored/Industrial Research and Development

8.3   Publications and patents

8.4P  Recognition as Centre of Excellence/Special Assistance/Department
               Support Programme

8.5P  Fellowships/Assistantships

8.6P  Joint Guidance with industry/R&D labs/other institutions for post graduate studies

8.7P  Criteria for evaluation of post graduate project







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     U                Applicable for UG Programme only
     P                Applicable for PG Programme only



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