The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) bestowed the 2012 Linton E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award on Dr. Stuart (Stu) H. Zweben, Professor Emeritus and former CSE Chairperson. (He is pictured above on the left with Larry Kaye, then ABET President.) He received this recognition for "outstanding leadership in computing accreditation worldwide, including more than 27 years of service to ABET and CSAB, and for being a catalyst behind the growth of computing accreditation in the United States over the last 25 years." It is the highest award given by ABET gives and is named for engineering and engineering technology education pioneer Linton E. Grinter.
From the beginning of his career, Dr. Zweben has been involved in computing program accreditation. In the early 80's, he was influential in Association for Computing Machinery's decision to join with the IEEE Computer Society to form the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, now CSAB, an organization a lead as President in 1989-1991. After CSAB merged with ABET in the late 1990's, Stu was a essential framer of the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC), initially as a member and later as its 2007-2008 Chair.
Subsequently to his time with the CAC, Zweben served ABET as a member of the organization's Accreditation Council for five years, including as the council's Chair for 2009-11. Currently, he is a member of its Global Council.
Stu joined CSE in 1974, leading the Department as Chair for 11 years. He then move to the OSU's College of Engineering where was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Administration for six years before he retiring in 2011.
He is a Fellow of ABET, ACM, and CSAB.
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