Quality management system (QMS), an assistance for NBA accreditation at UG engineering programmes

Abstract

There is always felt a requirement of employable engineers by the corporate sector. There has to be some indicator for quality of a student passing from an Institute. Quality Management Systems (QMS) is a tool for implementing quality standards at an institute. The assessment of the quality for an educational institute is done by different certifying boards like National Board for Accreditation (NBA), Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) etc. In order to assure about the employability of a student passing out of the institute,accreditation is a vital tool. Because of this reason many institutes are opting for the accreditation for their different undergraduate programmes. It is a well known fact that institutions 4 going for NBA accreditation need a lot of documents to be prepared and maintained as per the NBA accreditation requirements. OMS is a system for executing activities in an organisation as per the defined procedures. There are a lot of similarities between QMS and NBA. However NBA requirements are very specific in nature and are restricted to an educational institute while QMS requirements are generic in nature which can be implemented in an educational institute, Manufacturing unit even at a hospital as it is the process certification and not the product certification. Hence for meeting the specific requirements of NBA, the generic requirements of QMS can be fulfilled which will help and assisst during NBA accreditation. The current paper discusses the the similarities between the two and the assistance that can be taken by implementing the OMS before applying for the NBA accreditation.