Applying American ABET standards to Information Technology, Engineering and Technology training
On June 4th, DTU held the 2017 Graduation Ceremony and granted new Masters, Bachelors, Architecture and Pharmacy degrees. Acting Vice-Chairman of the Danang People’s Committee and Director of the Danang Local Propaganda Department, Mr. Dang Viet Dung, presented awards to outstanding students. Among the 1,521 students who graduated on schedule, 165 obtained Master’s degrees, 1,239 obtained Bachelor’s degrees, including the first 122 in Pharmacy and in Architecture, Engineering and other university-level Bachelor’s degrees, plus another 117 college-level Bachelors and 61 Vocational. 77 students, or 6.2%, graduated with high honors and 29 graduated six to eighteen months early.
Mr. Dang Viet Dung presents awards
Outstanding achievements in Natural Sciences, IT and Electronics
A highlight in this DTU year was the number of awards won by lecturers and students in Information Technology and Electronics. Ton That Binh was a member of the Vietnamese team that won the 2016 CDIO Academy Cup in Finland, while DTU’s Dr. Tran Hoai Nam was awarded the 2016 Young Researcher Prize in Physics at the 41st National Theoretical Physics Conference.
The DTU IT team placed second in Vietnam in the CTFTime rankings and came ninth at the 12th International WhiteHat Network Security Contest. They also finished sixth in the 2016 WhiteHat Grand Prix Network Security competition and ended third at the 2017 Students and Information Security - Viettel Mates CTF. DTU students won a first, a second, a third and two consolation prizes in the preliminary round of the 2016 Students and Information Security contest. They came first in the 2016 International Targeted Innovation Challenge, with second and third prizes at the 25th Student Informatics Olympiad.
DTU published 486 papers in ISI and Scopus listed journals. The Danang People’s Committee Chairman awarded Certificates of Merit to the DTU researchers who submitted 26 of the best ISI articles in 2016, 22 of which were prepared single-handedly.
Twenty Nafosted projects have been completed or are in progress, as well as several other research projects sponsored by the government or by international organizations.
Majors in IT and Engineering will meet American ABBET standards
Also in the past year, DTU became the first private university in Vietnam to receive a Certificate of Accreditation in Education Quality, which is valid for five years. DTU confirmed that it would register for accreditation for its international programs in Economics at the ACBSP standard, Hospitality at the ACPHA standard, MBAs at the FIBAA standard, Architecture at the KAAB standard, Construction at the JABEE standard and Information Technology and Engineering at the ABET standard.
ABET is a standard used in Engineering and Technology education in the USA and sends
representatives to universities to register them for international accreditation. The Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs at the University of Technology and at VNU in Ho Chi Minh City are the only two inspected in Vietnam. In Southeast Asia, several programs have been accredited, in Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. In total, since 2007, twenty-eight countries have had programs officially accredited by ABET.
Engineers graduating from ABET accredited programs are recognized by US companies. In 1932, seven members of US professional societies founded ABET. By 2014, ABET comprised 33 members. Each year, two thousand volunteers from those organizations work at ABET as managers or auditors.
ABET evaluates educational programs at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Engineering, Technology, Computing, and Applied Science and accreditation by specialists in those fields guarantees their quality.
ABET has was recognized by the American Council of Higher Education Accreditation in 1997. As of 2014, ABET had accredited 3,466 programs in 698 universities and colleges.
“DTU is committed to maintaining the quality of education and to gradually improving student capabilities by preparing them to establish start-ups and teaching them the necessary skills for global integration,” said Distinguished Teacher Le Cong Co. “If we graduate students who can start up their own companies in Danang and internationally, we can make Danang the most livable city in Vietnam and the whole of Asia, which is the wish of our government and people. If we achieve this, then DTU will have developed in harmony with Danang, as a heroic wartime city and pioneer of renovation.”
(Media Center)