Election of Dr. Adnan Yahya as Commissioner at the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology - ABET-
The professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Birzeit University Dr. Adnan Yahya was elected as Commissioner on the Computing Accreditation Commission(CAC) at the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which is the leading accreditation body for engineering and technology programs and accredits about 4,674 programs in 920 higher education institutions in 42 countries including Palestine.
He was elected at the last ABET meeting late last month in Baltimore, United States, after a nearly 10-year volunteer service which Dr. Adnan Yahya was a program evaluator at ABET and contributed to the evaluation of a number of programs in the United States, Asia, the Middle East, the Gulf and Europe.
The Commissioner's tasks include leading evaluation teams for programs, participating in the development of ABET strategies for the coming years in light of technological developments, and trading in order to approve the recommendations of evaluation teams for various programs.