Fundamentals of Program Assessment

April 26, 2026 – April 27, 2026

Beginner
2 Days
Cairo, Egypt

Workshop Dates

Apr

2026

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Apr

2026

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EET

About this Workshop

The Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshop is a workshop designed with a focus on small group interaction and individual assignments to introduce the context for program assessment, examine assessment processes, develop measurable outcomes and apply data collection and reporting methods. The exercises and examples are from associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and/or tech-focused programs. These can be applied to other program types and/or timeframes.

This workshop will allow you to work in teams and ask questions of experienced facilitators.

This workshop prepares you to:

Identify key elements of a functional assessment process.
Clarify the similarities and differences between course and program assessment.
Make student outcomes measurable with the development of performance indicators.
Understand the methods to assess student outcomes.
Develop rubrics as one method to score student performance in achieving student outcomes.
Identify the pros and cons of various data collection methods.
Decipher and report results.

Workshop Details

REGISTRATION
Registration for this two-day, in-person workshop is now available! Please contact education@abet.org if you have any questions.

WHEN
This workshop takes place April 26-27, from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. EET each day.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
This workshop will be held in Cairo, Egypt at the Al Masa Hotel Nasr City.

Doctor Abd El-Aziz El-Shennawy
Nasr City 11371, Cairo, Egypt

HOTEL
Use one of the following links to book your hotel:

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Agoda

WORKSHOP COST
The cost for this workshop is $745*.

*NAQAAE and EDUCON participants save an additional $150 by using the discount code “NAQAEE26” or “EDUCON26” at the time of registration.

Workshop Facilitators

Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D.

Daina M. Briedis, Ph.D., is currently an Adjunct Director of Professional Offerings at ABET. She also serves as Assistant Dean for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University and is a faculty member and ABET Coordinator in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

Over the past 32 years, Daina has served ABET as a program evaluator for AIChE, a team chair and member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), the first chair of the EAC Training and Materials Development Committee and an Executive Committee member of the EAC. She was a program evaluator on one of the very first “EC2000” visits and subsequently chaired several new criteria visits.

Briedis has been an AIChE Representative Director on the ABET Board of Directors and has been involved in the design teams for the new program evaluator and train-the-trainers training materials. She is a lead facilitator for the program evaluator training sessions. She also consults in the area of accreditation and assessment and evaluation and serves on the Board of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). She was elected a Fellow of ABET in 2007, a Fellow of the AIChE in 2011 and a Fellow of ASEE in 2015. She is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

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Alaa K. Ashmawy, Ph.D.

Alaa K. Ashmawy, Ph.D. is an engineering professor and researcher, a licensed engineering consultant and a global leader in higher education management. He currently serves as President, Daraya University, Egypt. He has over 30 years of professional experience in the U.S., Egypt and the UAE in higher education and engineering consulting. He was elected the 2020-2022 President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC). He also serves as Special Advisor to ABET’s CEO, supporting the global engineering accrediting agency with its operations in the Middle East and North Africa.

From 2006 to 2020, Ashmawy was Dean of the School of Engineering at the American University in Dubai (AUD), where he also served as Professor of Civil Engineering. He currently holds a research professorship at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and previously held teaching and research faculty positions at the University of South Florida and Georgia Tech, as well as visiting appointments in Mexico and Egypt. He is the recipient of the 2020 IEOM Society International’s Distinguished Educator Award and the 2019 IEEE Education Society’s EDUCON Meritorious Service Award. His research in environmental geotechnics and micromechanics of granular materials has been published in leading journals and earned over 1000 citations.

Ashmawy served as Program Evaluator for ABET’s Engineering Accreditation Commission and as Congress Ambassador for the Dubai Convention Bureau. He is a member of numerous professional and civic organizations including ASEE, IEEE, ASCE, Sigma Xi and the American Business Council of Dubai. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Purdue University and his bachelor’s degree with Honors and Distinction from Alexandria University.

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