EPAC FUNCTIONS
The EPAC derives its powers from the Council who delegated the following functions to the EPAC:

• to consider and decide on matters of policy relating to accreditation of engineering degree programmes, to draw up and to maintain guidelines on matters of policy and the conducting of accreditation visits, subject to approval by the education advisory committee and, thereafter, the executive committee or Council, whichever meets first;
• to compile and maintain a list of persons whom the EPAC considers eligible for appointment as members of any accreditation team and to consult with such institutes and professional advisory committees as it may consider expedient for purposes of establishing and maintaining such list of eligible persons;
• to appoint accreditation teams for each engineering degree programme, team leaders and, a visit chairman, which shall include the approval of attendance by observers, and to delegate such powers and prescribe the procedures, if any, to the chairman of the EPAC as may be necessary to
• to approve accreditation visit schedules, reporting deadlines and dates of meetings of the EPAC;
• after consideration of the full reports of accreditation teams, to grant accreditation to engineering degree programmes or to withhold accreditation from non-accredited programmes, as the case may be;
• after consideration of the full reports of accreditation teams, to recommend to the Executive Committee or to the Council, whichever meets first, withdrawal of accreditation of any engineering degree programme;
• to confirm the expiry of accreditation of any engineering degree programme in the event of a university failing to initiate an accreditation visit and to advise the Council or the executive committee, whichever meets first, of such occurrence;
• to issue, annually, a list of engineering degrees accredited by the EPAC;
• to institute such observation exercises as may be necessary to ensure that ECSA’s accreditation standards are substantially equivalent to those of foreign accrediting bodies with whom ECSA has entered into a mutual recognition agreement;
• through the qualifications and examinations sub-committee (QEC), to evaluate such engineering qualifications which have not been accredited or evaluated by ECSA for purposes of recognition in terms of the Act, or have not been recognised as a result of a mutual accreditation agreement with any foreign accrediting body, and to decide whether or not to recognise such qualification; and
• to keep the education advisory committee, executive committee or the Council, whichever meets first, informed of decisions taken in terms of these delegated powers, and to report on trends or other matters of professional and public concern arising from its activities.

ENGINEERING DEGREE PROGRAMME
The Accreditation process is defined and supported by the following documents:

E-01-P	Background to Accreditation of Engineering Education Programmes
E-02-PE	Standards for Accredited BSc(Eng)/BEng Programmes
E-03-P	Criteria for Accreditation of Engineering Programmes Meeting Stage 1 Requirements
E-10-P	Policy on Accreditation of Engineering Programmes Meeting Stage 1 Requirements
E-11-P	Procedure for Arranging and Conducting an Accreditation visit
E-12-P	Documentation Requirements for Accreditation Visits
E-13-P	Forms for Use in Accreditation Visit Documentation (Word Version)
E-14-P E-14.1-r0-cA	Accreditation Team Report and Recommendation Format
E-15-P	Accreditation Visit Leader’s Report Format
E-16-P	Procedure for Appeals Against Accreditation Decisions
E-20-PE	University Degrees Accredited as meeting the Educational Requirements toward Registration as a Professional Engineer