Engineering Criteria 2000 or EC2000 is the new set of criteria that Engineering programs must satisfy in order to be accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). While some of the ideas behind EC2000 are certainly likely to have a positive impact on engineering education, others are questionable, and indeed may have a negative impact. The paper attempts to justif...

While EC2000 was developed with the laudable goals of ensuring "program improvement and quality assurance in higher education" [1], from the point of view of the ABET accreditation visitor and the programs being evaluated, the EC2000 criteria can be both more difficult to understand and more difficult to apply than the more specific and straightforward criteria which they replaced. In addition ...

Since the inception of the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), engineering educators need to demonstrate how well students are learning, which is a challenging task. Many educators have used simulation–based training to assess student learning outcomes. These training simulators have been assessed manually, however, the manual ass...

1 César Cárdenas, Academic Program Director of Electronic Programs, Monterrey Tech Querétaro Campus, Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., México, 76130, [email protected] Abstract  Many universities worldwide have initiated strong efforts in the Re-engineering of their Teaching Learning Processes (RTLP). The majority of these efforts have been focused on schools, departments or individually...

Numerous organizations have undertaken the task of envisioning the education required to meet the engineering demands of the future. The ABET study EC2000, ASCE’s Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Body of Knowledge 2 and the National Academy of Engineering have documented the need to change engineering education from its historical focus on technical content knowledge to include greater e...

1 Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zachry Engineering Center, MS3128, College Station, TX 77843-3128, [email protected] 2 Debra Penberthy, University of Wisconsin, Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation and Dissemination Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, [email protected] 3 Karan Watson, Texas A&M University, Associate Dean, College of Engineering...

Developing the written communication skills of engineering students has become a higher priority learning outcome since the advent of the ABET EC2000 criteria. Increased numbers of writing intensive courses, refinements to document requirements and proliferation of rubric development indicate the effort used to address the elevated priority. The sharing of rubrics and standards for the formatti...