https://www.ieagreements.org/accords/washington/signatories/
Overview: Initiated in the UK by the Engineering Council, the Washington Accord, signed in 1989, is an international agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting engineering degree programs. It recognizes the substantial equivalency of programs accredited by those bodies and recommends that graduates of programs accredited by any of the signatory bodies be recognized by the other bodies as having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering.
Signatories: Signatories have full rights of participation in the Accord
- SIGNATORIES HAVE FULL RIGHTS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE ACCORD
Qualifications accredited or recognized by other signatories are recognised by each signatory as being substantially equivalent to accredited or recognised qualifications within its own jurisdiction.
| No | Country | Represented by |
| 1 | Korea | Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK) (2007) |
| 2 | Russia | Association for Engineering Education of Russia (AEER) (2012) |
| 3 | China | China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) (2016) |
| 4 | Malaysia | Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) (2009) |
| 5 | New Zealand | Engineering New Zealand (EngNZ) (1989) |
| 6 | South Africa | Engineering Council South Africa (ECSA) (1999) |
| 7 | Australia | Engineers Australia (EA) (1989) |
| 8 | Canada | Engineers Canada (EC) (1989) |
| 9 | Ireland | Engineers Ireland (EI) (1989) |
| 10 | Hong Kong China | Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) (1995) |
| 11 | Chinese Taipei | Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET) (2007) |
| 12 | Singapore | Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) (2006) |
| 13 | Sri Lanka | Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) (2014) |
| 14 | Japan | JABEE (2005) |
| 15 | India | National Board of Accreditation (NBA) (2014)
(Applies only to programmes accredited by NBA offered by education providers accepted by NBA as Tier 1 institutions.) |
| 16 | United States | Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) (1989) |
| 17 | Turkey | Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MÜDEK) (2011) |
| 18 | United Kingdom | Engineering Council United Kingdom (ECUK) (1989) |
| 19 | Pakistan | Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) (2017) |
| 20 | Peru | Instituto de Calidad y Acreditacion de Programas de Computacion, Ingenieria y Tecnologia (ICACIT) (2018) |
- PROVISIONAL SIGNATORIES ARE RECOGNISED AS HAVING APPROPRIATE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES IN PLACE TO DEVELOP TOWARDS BECOMING A FULL SIGNATORY
Organizations holding provisional status have been identified as having qualification accrediation or recognition procedures that are potentially suitable for the purposes of the Accord; those organizations are further developing those procedures with the goal of achieving signatory status in due course; qualifications accredited or recognised by organisations holding provisional status are not recognized by the signatories.
| No | Country | Represented by |
| 1 | Chile | Agencia Acreditadora Colegio De Ingenieros De Chile S A (ACREDITA CI)- Provisional Status Approved 2018 |
| 2 | Thailand | Council of Engineers Thailand (COET) – 2019 |
| 3 | Bangladesh | The Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) – 2016 |
| 4 | Costa Rica | Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA) -2016 |
| 5 | Mexico | Consejo de Acreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería (CACEI) -2016 |
| 6 | Philippines | Philippine Technological Council (PTC) -2016 |
| 7 | Myanmar | Myanmar Engineering Council (MEngC) – 2019 |
| 8 | Indonesia | Indonesian Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (IABEE) -2019 |