Recruitment, Training, and Management of Accreditation Evaluators

　　CEEAA regularly conducts voluntary evaluator recruitment and training in accordance with accreditation needs, and performs assessment and dynamic management of evaluators in accordance with CEEAA evaluator regulations.

　　1. Requirements to become Evaluator Candidates

　　The evaluator candidates should stand on principles and be practical and realistic, fair and objective, earnest and decent.

　　The evaluator candidates should be familiar with the scientific, technical and engineering progress in the specific discipline and the law of the growth of engineering talents. They should understand the needs of the knowledge, skills and quality of engineering technical talents from industry and employers.

　　The evaluator candidates should be able to take on the responsibility as accreditation evaluators and participate in the whole evaluation process. The age of evaluators should generally be less than 65. The outstanding middle-aged and young evaluators are encouraged to participate in the accreditation activities.

　　The evaluator candidates should have abundant experience in teaching, educational management or engineering practice.

　　The evaluator candidates from academe should be selected in corresponding program, and usually have good professional reputation with abundant teaching experience. The evaluator candidates from industry should be practitioners or newly retired engineering technicians from related industry departments. Foreign accreditation professionals could also be evaluators if necessary.

　　2. Nomination of Accreditation Evaluator Candidates

　　CEEAA recruit evaluator candidates through multiple channels：

　　a) CEEAA member;

　　b) Related industrial organization;

　　c) University teaching committee (principle of avoidance applies);

　　d) CEEAA Sub-committee;

　　e) CEEAA core evaluator;

　　f) Self-application.

　　CEEAA requires compliance of benefit avoidance principles, and at the same time to screen evaluator candidates for qualifications in accordance with strict procedures and arrange training in time.

　　3. Training Procedures

　　CEEAA arranges trainings for the candidates and expects that they would be familiar with the accreditation system, policies, standards, methods, and requirements before they become evaluators. Qualification training mainly includes theoretical training, on-site examination and apprenticeship, and continuous training after obtaining evaluator qualifications.

　　4. Selection of Evaluators

　　CEEAA establishes an evaluator database according to the accreditation professional fields, and the qualified evaluators will be approved to enter the database by the sub-committees. The sub-committees shall select evaluators who are applicable in terms of professional background and academic ability according to the situation of the accreditation programs when selecting the on-site panel members.

　　5. Management of the Evaluators

　　Evaluators shall strictly abide by the relevant disciplines of accreditation work, consciously participate in training, and conduct program accreditation impartially and objectively. CEEAA has the assessment system to supervise the evaluators in work, and to dynamically adjust the evaluator database.