Accreditation of academic programmes in computing in South Africa

Aurona Gerber; Saurabh Sinha; Alta Van Der Merwe; Moshe Kam

doi:10.1109/SE.2012.6242349

Accreditation of academic programmes in computing in South Africa

Aurona Gerber, Saurabh Sinha, Alta Van Der Merwe, Moshe Kam

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Abstract

Over the past two decades, strong technical convergence has been observed between computing and engineering. Computing in this context includes Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology and Software Engineering. Within the traditional engineering disciplines (including Computer Engineering), academic programme accreditation is well established, but most academic computing programmes in South Africa are still unaccredited. Those that are accredited were reviewed by accreditation agencies from other countries (US, UK). The convergence between computing and engineering opened the debate and accentuated the need for accreditation within the wider computing profession in South Africa.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012
Pages	7-10
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SE.2012.6242349
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: May 24 2012 → May 24 2012

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Name	Proceedings of the 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012

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Other	2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	5/24/12 → 5/24/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software

Keywords

ABET
ECSA
Seoul Accord
accreditation
computer science accreditation
computing
engineering accreditation

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Gerber, A, Sinha, S, Van Der Merwe, A & Kam, M 2012, Accreditation of academic programmes in computing in South Africa. in Proceedings of the 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012., 6242349, Proceedings of the 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012, pp. 7-10, 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, 5/24/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/SE.2012.6242349

Accreditation of academic programmes in computing in South Africa. / Gerber, Aurona; Sinha, Saurabh; Van Der Merwe, Alta et al.
Proceedings of the 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012. 2012. p. 7-10 6242349 (Proceedings of the 2012 4th Software Engineering Colloquium, SE 2012).

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