The Department of Information Science at the College of Computing Science and Engineering at Kuwait University announced that the Self- Assessments report prepared by the department has been selected for the requirements of the Global Academic Accreditation of ABET among the top 50 global reports. Prof. Qassem Saleh, Acting Head of Information Science Department, said that the report will be presented in April at the annual conference of the organization in Dallas, Texas, USA. The final results of the academic accreditation of the department's program are expected to be announced in August.
The Department of Information Science at the University of Kuwait's College of Computer Science and Engineering welcomed the ABET academic accreditation team headed by Professor Joseph Turner last November. The team conducted a comprehensive assessment of the Information Science Program in preparation for granting it a global academic accreditation.
The acting Dean of the College of Computing Science and Engineering, Prof. Mustafa Abdel Barr, said that the main objective of the accreditation is to provide confidence to the public opinion that these scientific programs and their outputs are efficient and qualified to achieve all the aspirations of the employers to obtain highly qualified and global human resources from this institution to practice This profession is successfully.
Prof. Abdel Barr pointed out that the academic accreditation is a continuous evaluation of the academic programs in the college in terms of academic programs and the efficiency of faculty members and the level of students and the material and human resources and support provided by the university to the scientific section and the college. In addition to many elements that concern the quality and efficiency of the college.
Prof. Mustafa Abdel-Barr explained that the computer science program at the college has been accredited by ABET for about three years