Continuous Improvement Assessment Forum

November 7, 2025 – November 8, 2025

Beginner
Intermediate / Advanced
2 Days
Baltimore, MD

Workshop Dates

Nov

2025

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Nov

2025

9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT

About this Workshop

This workshop is designed for a team of three or more from each program or institution to gain an understanding of the assessment process and have the ability to evaluate their own program assessment plan against best practices. This highly interactive workshop will highlight key elements of a successful program assessment planning process, including:

Defining terms
Developing program educational objectives
Defining learning outcomes
Choosing assessment methods and measures
Developing efficient processes
Reporting results

At the end of the workshop, participants will understand how to plan and organize their program assessment process to improve student learning. They will also be able to evaluate their own program assessment plan.

Workshop Details

REGISTRATION
Registration for this two-day, in-person workshop will be available in May. Please contact education@abet.org if you would like to be notified when registration opens.

*Three or more participants from one institution or program are required for registration.

WHEN
This workshop takes place Friday, November 7 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT and Saturday, November 8 from 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
This workshop takes place at ABET HQ in Baltimore, MD.

WORKSHOP COST
The cost for this workshop is $2550*, for a team of three, if you register by Sunday, October 18. Add additional team members for $650 each.

The cost for this workshop is $2700*, for a team of three, if you register after Sunday, October 18. Add additional team members for $650 each.

*Must register and pay as a group at time of registration for discount to be applied.

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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James Warnock, Ph.D.

James Warnock, Ph.D., received his bachelor’s in biological sciences from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Warnock earned his master’s in biochemical engineering as well as his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.

During his doctoral studies, he spent two months as a research fellow in the Department of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Kobe University, Japan. James relocated to Atlanta, GA, in 2003 and spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology with a joint appointment between the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering.

James is currently the Founding Chair and a Professor in the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is actively involved in engineering education research and has earned international attention for his work on using problem-based learning to enable students to develop their professional skills. In 2011, he was invited to present work at the Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium, hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. Before coming to Athens, James served as a professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. In this role, he was responsible for coordinating the assessment activities of 11 engineering/computer science programs within eight departments.

In July 2011, he was invited to become the first Adjunct Director for Professional Development at ABET. He has consequently been involved in the planning, preparation and facilitation of numerous ABET workshops, including the one-day Program Assessment Workshops and IDEAL. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

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