Caledonian College of Engineering, Institutional Standards Assessment, May 2017
 
Prof. Dr. Armin Eberlein
 
Prof. Dr. Armin Eberlein is the Deputy Rector for Academic Affairs at the German University of Technology in Oman. Prior to this position, he was a Full Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Regina (UofR) in Canada. Before joining UofR, he spent 10 years at American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the United Arab Emirates where he was a Professor and held various administrative roles, such as Director of Assessment, Coordinator of Accreditation and Department Head.  Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he was the Director of the Software Engineering program and one of the Co-Directors of the Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium (ASERC). His research interests focus on the improvement of software and requirements engineering practices and techniques. He worked previously as a hardware and software developer at Siemens in Munich, Germany, and has consulted for various companies in Germany, the UK, and Canada. Prof. Dr. Eberlein received a Dipl-Ing (FH) degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences in Germany, a M.Sc. degree in Communications Systems, and a Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.
 
Dr. Baghdad Benstaali
 
Dr Baghdad Benstaali is currently a Quality Assurance Expert supporting Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) improve academic programs performance and enhance institutional effectiveness. He has an extensive academic and research experience learning, teaching, disseminating research findings and sharing best practices acquired in different parts of the world (Europe, Maghreb, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and USA). He occupied several managerial positions in HEIs and international organisms. He managed Tempus and Erasmus+ European programmes providing guidance and support to higher education grant holders of capacity building projects aiming to improve governance and management, develop quality assurance policies and procedures, apply competency-based programs, implement continuous improvement processes, assess students learning competencies and skills, and establish relationships with external partners. He provided the strategic direction on quality assurance, leadership for programs self-study and institutions evaluations to achieve accreditation. He conducted several assignments as Reviewer and Evaluator with international accreditation organisms/agencies. He is an Associate Professor of Physics and Analytical Instrumentation, an alumnus of the University of East Anglia (UK) and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Rouen in France.
 
Prof Jonathan Bowen
 
Jonathan Bowen, FBCS FRSA, is Emeritus Professor of Computing at London South Bank University, where he established and headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods in 2000, an Adjunct Professor at Southwest University, Chongqing, China, and Chairman of Museophile Limited, founded in 2002. He was Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University during 2013-15. From 1995 to 2000, Prof. Bowen was a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University of Reading where he led the Formal Methods and Software Engineering Group. Previously he was a senior researcher at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory Programming Research, where he worked under the guidance of Sir Tony Hoare, FRS. During 1979-84, he worked at Imperial College, London as a research assistant, latterly in the interdepartmental Wolfson Microprocessor Laboratory. Bowen has been involved with the field of computing in both industry (including Marconi Instruments, Logica, Silicon Graphics, and Altran Praxis) and academia since 1977. His interests have ranged from formal methods, safety-critical systems, the Z notation, provably correct systems, logic programming, decompilation, hardware compilation, software/hardware co-design, and software testing, to the history of computing, museum informatics, and digital culture. He holds an MA degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University. Bowen has an h-index of 51 on Google Scholar. He has undertaken accreditation in the Middle East, including UAE, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, since 2007. He is a Life Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.  
 
Dr. Julie Jackson
 

Dr Julie Jackson was a Pro Vice-Chancellor at La Trobe University, Australia for a period of 14years, retiring in early 2016.  She held a variety of portfolios primarily in the areas of quality enhancement, educational partnerships and community engagement.  She led the development of the University quality management framework and the preparations for the AUQA audits in 2004 and 2009 as well as guiding the document preparation for the 2016 TEQSA re-accreditation.  She was a member of the La Trobe University Academic Board for 14 years and was elected to the University Council in 2005. She chaired the University Coursework Committee and the Scholarships Committee.     Dr Jackson served as an Australian Universities Quality Agency honorary auditor from 2002 until 2010. She was also the Universities Australia nominee to the Joint Steering Group for the Australian Universities Quality Forum. With a long experience of accreditation and quality assurance in higher education, she was a Ministerial appointee  to the Victorian Higher Education Advisory Committee from 2000 until 2010.She serves on quality assurance and accreditation panels in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa, as well as Oman.  She is also a registered assessor for the new Australian national accreditation agency, the Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency. She has been a visiting academic at a number of Australian and international universities and was a finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching, Institutional category in 1998.  With five degrees including qualifications in economics, econometrics, quality management and education she has published widely in these areas and has been successful in obtaining Australian Research Council and Cooperative Research Centre grants.