Abstract
In this paper, an effective model for managing accreditation processes for academic engineering programs is presented as a best practice model. The model has been adopted by five engineering programs seeking accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The model includes three major components under each of which a set of processes has been defined in order to be conducted during the pre-visit, visit, and post-visit phases of the accreditation process. The three major components of the model are (1) Leadership Commitment and Support, (2) Accreditation Knowledge Dissemination, and (3) Program Preparation to Satisfy Criteria of Accreditation. Although the model is applied to an engineering college programs seeking ABET accreditation, it can be adopted to manage the accreditation process of any academic program after defining the set of processes related to the accreditation body under each component of the proposed model.