Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology ABET

As already mentioned, there are more than 20 engineering disciplines recognized by the professional societies. However, most engineering degrees are granted in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Therefore, these disciplines are discussed here first. 

The other common disciplines in engineering indude aerospace engineering, biomedical, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, petroleum engineering, nudear engineering, and materials engineering. 

The engineering technology programs are also accredited the Accreditation Board for 

According to ABET, an accredited engineering tedmology program must demonstrate 

Therefore, these are the educational outcomes that are expected of you when you graduate form an ei ineering technology program. 

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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. 

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). 

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. 

The effectiveness of the conrse project as part of a core subject is mapped to the learning outcomes a to k defined according the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) [6]. Table 2 presents that the outcomes a to e belong to technical outcomes and f to k belong to professional outcomes. It can be seen that the course project addresses both technical and professional outcomes defined by the program. 

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