Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership (IDEAL)

August 3, 2026 – August 6, 2026
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate / Advanced
  • 4 Days
  • Baltimore, MD
Workshop Dates
Aug
3
2026
Aug
6
2026
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
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About this Workshop

ABET’s Institute for the Development of Excellence in Assessment Leadership (IDEAL) is a professional development opportunity that thoroughly equips you to lead your faculty in the development and implementation of a program assessment plan.

Over four days of expert guidance and interactive group exercises, you’ll work with colleagues to develop the skills and knowledge to make you an effective assessment leader. For more information on what you will learn, topics covered and more, please visit the IDEAL home page.

This course is not recommended for those who have taken ABET’s Advanced Program Assessment Workshop recently.

Workshop Details

PDH: 24
Professional Development Hours

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

WHEN
This workshop takes place August 3-6 from 8:30 a.m – 4:30 p.m. ET each day.

WORKSHOP LOCATION
ABET HQ
415 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

WORKSHOP COST
The cost for this workshop is $2295 if you register by Friday, July 10, 2026.

The cost for this workshop is $2400 if you register after Friday, July 10, 2026.

HOTEL
Hotel Indigo Baltimore Downtown
Room rate: $158 plus state and local taxes
Group Block: 8.2.2026-8.7.2026
Booking Code: AAL
Reservations must be confirmed by Monday, July 13.
Hotel booking link: Hotel Indigo Baltimore Downtown

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Workshop Facilitators

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D.

Gloria Rogers, Ph.D., is currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Director for Professional Offerings at ABET. She is also the Assessment and Data Analyst for Indiana State University’s Physician Assistant program and Senior Scholar Emerita for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. She has been providing workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning for over three decades. She has been an external evaluator for major science, math, engineering, and technology initiatives and has served as Chair of two national advisory committees and been a member of numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and has been a special editor for two issues of the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Gloria has authored assessment‐related articles, given invited presentations at national and international conferences and facilitated workshops/seminars on over 80 campuses. In addition to her local and national involvement in assessment and educational reform, she has given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru. In 2008 she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education for her contributions to the engineering education profession.

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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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