Advisor and Engineering Accreditation Coordinator

DUTIES

& RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides advising services to the engineering students, including engineering transfer and BEng programs.
• Maintains the accuracy and completeness of curriculum documentation.
• Ensures that approved academic curriculum changes are up to date and communicate changes to faculty, students, college and university transfer programs, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain reports on curriculum development and approval process for the department.
• Assists department Chair in managing course scheduling and timetabling.
• Manages articulation agreements with other institutions.
• Performs initial assessment for transfer credits of the transferring students.
• Coordinate with TRU’s Co-op Coordinator to ensure 4th year students have met the requirements for their mandatory Co-op year and others students are prepping for their mandatory Co-op terms.
• Coordinate and maintain record of the development of successful accreditation standards and processes for the engineering degree programs.
• Communicate with faculty members about program assessment plans and define organizational practices to implement evaluation tools for accreditation.
• Works in conjunction with course instructors to develop program assessment tools to ensure alignment with program goals and CEAB accreditation guidelines.
• Writes and prepare program accreditation documents for the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board’s (CEAB) review and visit.
• Ensure appropriate processes, and documentation for CEAB accreditation and other external and internal reviews, are in place.
• Extracts, manage and store data from a wide range of internal and external sources, compiling and analyzing data, and performing statistical analyses of data for CEAB accreditation purposes.
• Coordinates the accreditation review processes and document requirements by reviewing information, soliciting content from faculty members from various departments within Faculty of Science offering engineering courses and verifying its accuracy.
• Coordinates the CEAB Accreditation Team visits.
• Community outreach and visiting high schools to promote the program.
• Prepare and coordinate communication with school counselors.
• Coordinate with marketing and communication to ensure that programs have up-to-date promotional materials.
• Coordinate with admissions to ensure that students’ applications are evaluated timely by the department admission committee.
• Communicate with potential applicants and provide information as and when required.
• Assists in arranging promotional events in the department.

REPORTS TO

Project Manager, Accreditation and Quality Assurance

QUALIFICATIONS

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WORKING CONDITIONS

The salary for the above position is determined by the Collective Agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 4879, as it presently exists.