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Learning and Leading Together: Global Quality Assurance

The ABET Symposium will explore how quality education and continuous professional growth can strengthen our ability to address global challenges through meaningful collaboration across cultures, disciplines and professional communities. Inspired by United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 — Ensure inclusive and quality education and promote learning opportunities for all — this year’s theme recognizes that the future of higher education depends not only on innovation, but also on our ability to learn from one another across borders, experiences and perspectives.

The ABET Symposium challenges higher education and industry to reimagine international collaboration as a strategic driver of quality, innovation and societal impact. By embracing diverse perspectives, learning styles and experiences, we expand our own thinking while better preparing learners to analyze complex challenges and approach problems through new lenses. At this event, we define quality not as a fixed destination, but as a commitment to continuous learning—broadening our global perspective, questioning our assumptions and applying new understanding to achieve better outcomes, building on what we have already achieved to create even better outcomes.

Our hope is that every participant leaves with a renewed appreciation for the value of differing perspectives and a strengthened commitment to working collaboratively to advance quality in education to build a better world.

Why Attend?

Build your network, learn new strategies and share ideas with like-minded individuals from all over the world. Our premier event brings together passionate faculty members, students, industry leaders and government representatives to discuss continuous education in shaping future professionals and promoting sustainability.

Inspiring Plenaries

Experts from academia, industry and government come together to discuss the leading challenges we face today as well as the importance of lifelong learning and workforce readiness.

Informative Sessions

Our illuminating sessions cover foundational topics such as accreditation and assessment, as well as new strategies and emerging trends in STEM higher education.

Networking Opportunities

The ABET Symposium will provide you with many opportunities to connect with your peers. We encourage attendees to connect, seek out answers and inspiration and find collaboration opportunities.

I’ve never been to any professional event that is so on-point, and still a really good time!
Corinne Colbert
Adjunct Writing Instructor, Ohio University

You’re engaging all these different parts of your brain — I leave with big takeaways but I also leave with a dozen little takeaways.
Jennifer Brock
Associate Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage

I keep coming back to the Symposium every year because people are always so open to help provide the information we need to take back to our programs and implement the type of changes that ABET is about.
Alisa Gilmore
Associate Professor of Practice, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

You never know what you might find, but even if you’re an old-timer, you’ll always learn something new here!
John Estell
Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio Northern University

I’m encouraged that we really are making some positive changes to the STEM profession by the dialogue taking place here at the Symposium.
Karen Horting
Executive Director & CEO, Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

The networking possibilities at the Symposium are huge. We have many experts from the technical areas, academia, NGOs and industry. There are a lot of connections to make at the event!
Mohamad Diab
Associate Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rafik Hariri University