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Washington Accord

The Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting engineering degree programs. It recognizes the substantial equivalency of programs accredited by those bodies and recommends that graduates of programs accredited by any of the signatory bodies be recognized by the other bodies as having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering. Since ABEEK has been approved as a signatory of the Washington Accord in 2007, it helps facilitate the mobility of engineers in the global marketplace. (https://www.ieagreements.org/accords/washington/)

Accord Signatories (As of June 2024)
No. Nation Signatory Signed up
1 United States of America ABET (Accreditation Board Engineering and Technology) 1989
2 United Kingdom ECUK (Engineering Council, UK) 1989
3 Australia EA (Engineers Australia) 1989
4 Canada EC (Engineers Canada) 1989
5 Ireland EI (Engineers Ireland) 1989
6 New Zealand IPENZ (Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand) 1989
7 Hong Kong HKIE (The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers) 1995
8 Republic of South Africa ECSA (Engineering Council of South Africa) 1999
9 Japan JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) 2005
10 Singapore IES (Institution of Engineers Singapore) 2006
11 Republic of Korea ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea) 2007
12 Taiwan IEET (Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan) 2007
13 Malaysia BEM (Board of Engineers Malaysia) 2009
14 Turkey MǕDEK (Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs 2011
15 Russia AEER (Association for Engineering Education of Russia) 2012
16 India NBA (National Board of Accreditation) 2014
17 Sri Lanka IESL (Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka) 2014
18 China CAST (China Association for Science and Technology) 2016
19 Pakistan PEC (Pakistan Engineering Council) 2017
20 Peru ICACIT (Instituto de Calidad Y Acreditacion de Programas de Computacion, Ingeneria Y Technologia) 2018
21 Costa Rica CFIA (Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica) 2020
22 Mexico CACEI (Consejo de Acreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería)
* Signatory status approved at IEAM 2022 on the basis of a virtual review, approval subject to conditions set out by the Washington Accord meeting.
2022
23 Indonesia PII (Persatuan Insinyur Indonesia)
* Signatory status approved at IEAM 2022 on the basis of a virtual review, approval subject to conditions set out by the Washington Accord meeting.
2022
24 Bangladesh IEB (The Institution of Engineers Bangladesh) 2023
25 Philippine PTC (Philippine Technological Council) 2023
Provisional Signatories (As of June 2024)
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