Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology

Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET, Accreditation Criteria and Supporting Documents. Available at http //www.abet.org/accreditation-criteria-policies-documents/. Accessed November 11, 2013. 

In addition to improving teaching and learning, assessment information may be gathered to satisfy institutional or external reviewers. For example, the criteria used in accreditation reviews of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology state that a program should have in place ... 

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. 

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). 

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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