PROJECT TITLE :

Telecommunication engineering education (TEE): making the case for a new multidisciplinary undergraduate field of study

ABSTRACT:

Six years of sustained efforts to recognize telecommunication engineering (TE) as a distinct education discipline came to a successful conclusion on November one, 2014, with ABET???s approval of its 2015-2016 Criteria for Electrical, Laptop, Communications, Telecommunication(s) and Similarly Named Engineering Programs. This paper narrates the history of the Telecommunication Engineering Education (TEE) initiative and movement (2008–2014) which resulted in recognition of this field as a distinct engineering education discipline within the US and twenty eight other countries. We have a tendency to describe how the case for this recognition was made successfully, based mostly on advances in network science and engineering. We tend to discuss some aspects of the new ABET criteria, and the way they relate to ongoing and anticipated changes in the world of engineering education.