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16-September-2008 16:15:12 - Accration Board for Engineering and Technology Redirected from ABET ABET redirects here. For other uses, see Abet. ABET, Inc., formerly the Accration Board for Engineering and Technology, is a non-profit organization that serves the public by accring United States postsecondary degree programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. Accration is intended to certify the quality of these programs. There are over 2,800 programs accred at over 600 colleges and universities in the U.S. ABET is the recognized U.S. accror of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. ABET also provides leadership internationally through workshops, consultancies, memoranda of understanding, and mutual recognition agreements, such as the Washington Accord. ABET has been recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accration CHEA since 1997. Contents 1 History 2 Member Societies 3 The ABET Accration Process 4 Criteria 5 EC 2000 6 Miscellaneous 7 Citations and notes 8 External links History ABET was established in 1932 as the Engineers' Council for Professional Development ECPD by seven engineering societies:1 The American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers now the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers now IEEE, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education now the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE, and the National Council of State Boards of Engineering Examiners now NCEES.1 ECPD was originally founded to provide a joint program for upbuilding engineering as a profession. However, it almost immediately began developing as an accration agency, evaluating its first engineering program in 1936 and its first engineering technology program in 1946.1 ECPD changed its name to Accration Board for Engineering and Technology ABET in 1980, and in 2005 changed its name again to ABET, Inc. Member Societies ABET is a federation of 28 professional and technical societies representing the fields of applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. These societies own and operate the organization. AAEE - American Academy of Environmental Engineers ACSM - American Congress on Surveying and Mapping AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIHA - American Industrial Hygiene Association ANS - American Nuclear Society ASABE - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers ASEE - American Society for Engineering Education ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASSE - American Society of Safety Engineers BMES - Biomedical Engineering Society CSAB - formerly Computing Sciences Accration Board HPS - Health Physics Society IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IIE - Institute of Industrial Engineers ISA - Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society NCEES - National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying NICE - National Institute of Ceramic Engineering NSPE - National Society of Professional Engineers SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers SME-AIME - Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. SNAME - Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers TMS - The Minerals, Metals Materials Society MRS - Materials Research Society Associate Member Society The ABET Accration Process Accration of engineering programs is voluntary; the request for accration is initiated by the institution seeking accration. Accration is given to individual programs within an institution rather than to the institution as a whole. Accred programs must request re-evaluation every six years to retain accration; if the accration criteria are not satisfied, additional evaluations may be required within the six-year interval. Programs without previous accration can apply for accration as long as they have produced at least one program graduate. The first step in securing or retaining ABET accration is for an institution to request an evaluation of its programs by January 31 of the year in which accration is being sought. The eligibility of the institution must be established, which can be satisfied if the institution is accred by a regional accration agency. Each program is then assigned to one of four accration commissions within ABET: Applied Science Accration Commission ASAC Computing Accration Commission CAC Engineering Accration Commission EAC Technology Accration Commission TAC The program is assigned to a commission based on its title the program name shown on the transcript. Each commission has different accration criteria. Each program then conducts an internal evaluation and completes a self-study report. The self-study documents how well the program is meeting the established accration criteria in multiple areas, such as their students, curriculum, faculty, administration, facilities, and institutional support. The self-study report must be provided to ABET by July 1. While the program conducts its self-study, the appropriate ABET commission Applied Science, Computing, Engineering, or Technology Commission will choose a team chair to head the on-campus evaluation visit. A visit date generally in the September - December time frame is negotiated between the team chair and the institution. Once the date is set, the ABET commission will assign program evaluators generally one per program being evaluated. The institution is provised the opportunity to reject the team chair or program evaluators if a conflict of interest is perceived. The team chair and evaluators are volunteers from academe, government, industry, and private practice. Once the program evaluators are accepted by the institution, they are provided with the self-study report for their assigned program. This report forms the basis of their evaluation of the program, and prepares them for the campus visit. The evaluation team team chair and program evaluators will normally arrive on campus on a Saturday or Sunday. During the on-campus visit, the evaluation team will review course materials from each program, as well as student projects and sample assignments. Evaluators will also interview students, faculty, and administrators, and tour the facilities to investigate any questions raised by the self-study. The visit will normally conclude the following Tuesday with an exit interview with the institution's chief executive officer, dean, and other appropriate institution personnel as appropriate. This interview is intended to summarize the results of the evaluation for each program. Following the campus visit, the institution has 14 days in which to correct perceived errors of fact communicated during the exit interview. Following this period, the team chair will begin preparation of a draft statement to the institution; this statement undergoes extensive ing and will typically be provided to the institution several months after the visit. On receipt of the draft statement, the institution has 30 days to respond to issues identified in the evaluation. After this response, the team chair prepares a final statement to the institution. The final statement and recommended accration action is reviewed by the large annual meeting of all ABET commission members in July after the campus visit. Based on the findings, the commission members vote on the final accration action, and the school is notified of the decision in August. The information the school receives identifies strengths, concerns, weaknesses, and deficiencies of the program, as well as recommendations for compliance with ABET criteria. Accration is granted for a maximum of six years, after which the institution must request another evaluation. Criteria ABET specifies minimum curricula for various engineering programs. For instance, ABET requires that all engineering graduates of a baccalaureate program receive at least one year of study in the natural or physical sciences and mathematics, and requires some study within general education. ABET also requires that each student complete a capstone project or design class in their education. Because of ABET's involvement, engineering curricula are somewhat standardized at the bachelor's level, thus ensuring that graduates of any ABET-accred program have some minimal skill set for entry into the workforce or for future education. EC 2000 For most of the its history, ABET's accration criteria specifically outlined the major elements that accred engineering programs must have, including the program curricula, the faculty type, and the facilities. However, in the mid-1990s, the engineering community began to question the appropriateness of such rigid accration requirements. After intense discussion, in 1997, ABET adopted Engineering Criteria 2000 EC2000. The EC2000 criteria shifted the focus away from the inputs what material is taught and to the outputs what students learned. EC2000 stresses continuous improvement, and accounts for specific missions and goals of the individual institutions and programs. The intention of this approach was to enable innovation in engineering programs rather than forcing all programs to conform to a standard, as well as to encourage new assessment processes and program improvements. Miscellaneous To become a licensed professional engineer, one common prerequisite is graduation from an EAC of ABET-accred program. The Engineering Credential Evaluation International ECEI was established in 1997 as the credential evaluation service of ABET, Inc. ECEI specialized in the evaluation of degrees in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, and surveying from outside the U.S. As of October 30, 2006, ECEI stopped accepting applications for credentials evaluation; a business decision made by the ABET Board of Directors. Citations and notes ^ a b c ABET History External links Official ABET site ABET FAQ from Wayne State University ABET overview from VaNTH ERC Mutual Accration Recognition Agreements Executive summary of a report studying the impact of EC2000 criteria ECEI FAQ Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Accration_Board_for_Engineering_and_Technology Categories: School accrors | Universities and colleges in the United States Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page This page was last modified on 12 August 2008, at 12:39
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