Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

Since the first edition was published, many universities have developed courses or course content in chemical process safety. This new emphasis on process safety is the result of the positive influences from industry and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Based on faculty feedback, this textbook is an excellent application of the fundamental topics that are taught in the first three years of the undergraduate education. 

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). (1997). Engineering criteria 2000 (3rd ed.). http //www.abet.oig/EAC/eac2000.htm. 

ABET. (2012). 2013-2014 criteria for accrediting engineering programs. The accreditation board for engineering and technology. Engineering Accreditation Commission EAC, Baltimore, MD. 

In this chapter, we describe the processes developed at Zayed University (ZU) to assess learning outcomes for institutional quality assurance purposes and for the purposes of accieditation. These processes have provided an effective system for institutional assessment and have enabled the institution to achieve Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) accreditation and Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation for the College of Technological Iimovation (CTI). 

MALO Major Learning Outcome, ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology... 

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology ABET, Annual Report (2010), Technological progress through accreditation, USA. B.O.E. Thursday 29th January 2009, Science and Innovation Spanish Ministry. 

There is widespread recognition of the importance of the core competencies. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) holds engineering programs to a list of outcomes that their students are expected to be able to meet. The current list of ABET outcomes is shown in Table 1.2. Note that the italicized outcomes, d, f-j, and part of c are all about professional skills, not technical ones. This is Criterion 3, only one of several criteria on which programs are evaluated, but a very important one. 

An important starling point of this discussion was set by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology in the USA (ABET) Criteria for Accreditation, pubUshed in 2000. The urge for departments to develop conununication abiUty, cultural awareness, human interaction or ethics is a seminal event that can be considered as a reference point in the subject. 

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