Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective provides a world-wide view of the history and the current conditions of Engineering Education Quality Assurance. This book provides the first wide-ranging picture of Quality Assurance schemes from essentially every continent and the issues related to their development and implementation. In addition, a generic Engineering Education Quality Assurance Model is described that synthesizes all of the extant approaches and provides a structure for future development.

"The goal of this book is to provide a global perspective on the past, present and future of engineering education quality assurance. The objectives are to describe the history of engineering education quality assurance within a global higher education context, provide the first world-wide review of existing quality assurance schemes in engineering education and the issues related to their development and implementation, and present a generic Global Model of Engineering Quality Assurance based on the lessons learned in the past that may guide future developments in engineering education quality assurance."

Overview/History.- The Background of Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Engineering Education.- Issues and Challenges (Global/Regional Perspectives).- Quality Assurance in European Engineering Education: Present and Future Challenges.- EUR-ACE: The European Accreditation System of Engineering Education and Its Global Context.- Toward Consensus Global Standards for Quality Assurance of Engineering Programmes.- Quality Assurance in the Preparation of Technical Professionals: The ABET Perspective.- Issues and Challenges (Country/Institutional Perspectives).- Quality Assurance in Engineering Education and Modernization of Higher Education in Russia.- Quality Assurance in Vietnam's Engineering Education.- Quality Assurance for the Engineering Paraprofessional in Thailand.- Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Chile: National and Engineering Dimensions.- Quality Assurance of Engineering Education in Sweden.- Assessment of Engineering Education Quality: An Indian Perspective.- Quality Issues Facing Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: A Case Study of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.- Quality Assurance in Engineering Education in the United States.- Quality Assurance in Engineering Education: An All-round Perspective.- Engineering Education Quality Assurance: The Essential Pillar of Higher Education Reform in Lithuania.- General Approaches and Techniques.- Using a Measure of Student Holistic Development for Quality Assurance.- CDIO and Quality Assurance: Using the Standards for Continuous Program Improvement.- Using Soft Systems Thinking to Confront the Politics of Innovation in Engineering Education.- Real-Time Quality Control Methods in PBL-based Engineering Education.- Enhancing the Quality of the Engineering Student Experience.- Taxonomies of Engineering Competencies and Quality Assurance in Engineering Education.- Future Direction.- Internal and External Quality Assurance Approaches for Improvement and Accountability: A Conceptual Framework.