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IEE Colloquium on 'Accreditation - an Essential Monitor of Quality to be Further Developed or a Spent Force' (Digest No.069)
Quality assessment in engineering education
The author argues that there is a view that engineering educators need to work-not just to satisfy the rigours of quality assessment, but more importantly so that they can develop an efficient approach to their work in the face of decreasin...
Accreditation-roles, responsibilities and relationships between the Professional Institutions and the Engineering Council
The Professional Institutions and the Engineering Council operate with the collective objectives of representing and developing the engineering profession in its broadest sense and the various branches of that discipline which it comprises....
NVQs-credits towards accreditation
The author defines the term 'accreditation' which is used in its SARTOR meaning, and is concerned with the quality and relevance of an educational or training programme, as far as it affects criteria for membership and registration. In the ...
The value placed by industry on academic accreditation
Many higher education institutions have now had their period of accreditation renewed at least twice. The composition of the IEEE Accreditation Committee has changed in the normal course of replacement, the visiting panels have recruited co...
Tools for analysis of accelerated life and degradation test data
This paper discusses educational tools, resources and experience in teaching physics-of-failure (PoF) modeling and data analysis methods used in accelerated life testing (ALT) and accelerated degradation testing (ADT). The concepts introduc...
Thin MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitor) reliability evaluation using an accelerated ramp voltage test
For every semiconductor device, digital processor, FPGA (field programmable gate array), etc. on a typical electronics board, there are usually a dozen or more associated MLCCs. They perform power supply bypassing, DC isolation, EMI filteri...
Sustaining quality of services through service reliability and availability
In the current IT landscape, key challenges are to "un the business", "Outperform competition" & to expand the customer base to "Grow the business". This mandates an organization to constantly diversify the existing services provided and ad...
Reliability of conformal coated surface mount packages
Conformal coatings have been used to protect the electronic assemblies from corrosive gases, dust, and moisture. In recent years, conformal coatings have been relied on to mitigate the electrical shorting risk presented by tin mitigation, a...
Reliability of corner staked surface mount packages
Due to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances by European legislation, Lead free solders such as SAC305 have replaced the use of lead in the commercial electronic industry. Lead free (LF) solder joints, having lower ductility, often are th...