ABET has specifically honored Dr. Zweben for “his leadership and selfless contributions to the computing discipline as a pioneer and faithful proponent of accreditation for computing programs.” During the mid-80’s he helped launch the Computer Sciences Accreditation Board (now know as CSAB, Inc.) and served as its president from 1989 to 1991. Currently, Dr. Zweben is the Vice Chair for Operations of the Computing Accreditation Commission Executive Committee.
This award is only the most recent of commendations bestowed on Dr. Zweben.
He has been a Fellow and former president of the ACM (Association of Computing
Machinery. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association
(CRA) and the editorial board of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal.
In 2002, he received the Outstanding Educator Advancing Technology from the
Columbus Technology Council and was their Technical Person of the Year in 2000.