Recent reports from CTI (Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur) stated that it was passed unanimously by the 44th CTI Committee to continue to award the master diploma of Beihang Sino-French Engineer School the French national accreditation for a period of six years. Meanwhile, the diploma received certification from EUR-ACE also for a period of six years. This is the second time that Sino-French Engineer School being awarded full accreditation by French CTI, following the successful international accreditation of six years in 2011, thus making it the first Sino-foreign education institution that received accreditation for the longest period twice in a row in China.
Following the qualification accreditation process of French engineer diploma issuance, the Sino-French Engineer School submitted the formal application to CTI in November 2015. At the beginning of 2016, CTI officially appointed evaluation delegation and panel members to visit the School in April for the one-week evaluation. During the period of assessment, CTI judging panel conducted discussions with President Xu Huibin and Vice President Huang Haijun respectively, exchanging in-depth opinions on the future direction of discipline development, discipline construction etc. of the school. Later, the panel conducted a thorough and in-depth inquiry session with the Chinese and French leaders of the school, faculties, and student delegation, and implemented all-round inspection and evaluation on the teaching activities, scientific research, talent cultivation, school operation and so forth combined with the written application material submitted by the school.
Over the past several years, Sino-French Engineer School has been regarding it as its own duty to cultivate internationalized local general engineering leaders and pioneers who are skilled in “global mindset, systematic thinking, and collaborative innovation” and are able to overcome the challenge of world diversity and rapid change. With the school’s continuous development and optimization of Sino-French education system integration based on school’s renewed requirement for the discipline construction and development of Sino-French engineers, the school took the opportunity of the international evaluation, and reset the cultivating direction to “system engineering and industrial engineering” for future engineer masters, enabling the school develop gradually in line with the world-class general engineer schools.

   The Sino-French Engineer School sets an important milestone of new stage development by passing the second round of CTI accreditation. The important milestone representing Sino-French Engineer School’s new stage development is marked by establishing local bachelor and master general engineer elite cultivating system, quality assurance system and evaluation criteria system that are in line with international mainstream accreditation standard, constructing an internationalized management system and a management team with Chinese characteristics, building a full-time faculty and research team led by international prestigious experts, and founding practical teaching infrastructure focusing on engineering innovation cultivation in line with international standard and multi-cultural talent cultivating environment with solid foundation and assurance. The Sino-French Engineering School will take the opportunity to accelerate its development and strive to promote China’s engineer diploma education.
CTI is the institution under French Ministry of Education specialized in engineer diploma accreditation. EUR-ACE aims to establish a uniform accreditation standard of engineering education system under the joint participation of member states of the European Union. The system incorporates 14 distinguished accreditation institutions including CTI and EC-UK.
Editor: Jia Aiping
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