CSAB_(professional_organization)
CSAB, Inc., formerly called the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, Inc., is a non-profit professional organization in the United States, focused on the quality of education in computing disciplines. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) are the member societies of CSAB.[1][2] The Association for Information Systems (AIS) was a member society between 2002 and September 2009.[3]
CSAB itself is a member society of ABET, to support the accreditation of several computing (related) disciplines:[1][2][4]
- It is leading for computer science, information systems, information technology and software engineering
- It is working together with other ABET member societies for computer engineering, information engineering and biological engineering
- For the disciplines where CSAB is leading, it develops the accreditation criteria and it educates the so-called Program Evaluators (PEVs).
- But the accreditation activities themselves are conducted by the appropriate ABET accreditation commission. For computing this is the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC).