Title :
Engineering Criteria 2000: the impact on engineering education
Author :
Soundarajan, Neelam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
Abstract :
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 justify this claim by presenting some hypothetical programs and examining how they will fare under EC2000.
Keywords :
accreditation; educational courses; engineering education; quality control; teaching; Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology; EC2000; Engineering Criteria 2000; course accreditation; engineering education; quality assurance; Accreditation; Acoustical engineering; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Electronic mail; Engineering education; Information science; Technical drawing; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5643-8
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1999.839082
