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The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) is working towards joining the Washington Accord, which will enable Indian engineering graduates to practise engineering in Western countries, according to Mr D.K.Paliwal, Member Secretary, NBA.
Established by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) as an autonomous body, the NBA is tasked with periodic evaluations of technical institutions and programmes.
Mr Paliwal was addressing a special workshop on the new accreditation process in undergraduate engineering programmes, organised by the NBA, at the Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE) here on Thursday.
He said that while Indian engineers can currently work in the West, they are not allowed to practise engineering as the degree courses here are not recognised by many countries.
The Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting engineering degree programmes.
It recognises substantial equivalence of programmes accredited by those bodies and recommends that graduates of such programmes be recognised by other bodies as having met the academic requirements for entry into the practice of engineering, he added.
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