A Template for Organizing Efforts to Satisfy ABET EC 2000 Requirements

Abstract

AbstractThis paper presents a template that departments may use to organize their efforts to satisfy ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 requirements. The template is based on the premise that each course in a BS curriculum should be designed to service well‐defined “Student Learning Tasks” that have been derived from program objectives. The template is such that, as a department creates files and documents to fill it, “Objectives of the Department” will derive from stakeholder demands; “Graduate Attributes” will derive from “Objectives of the Department”; a set of “Student Learning Tasks” will be associated with each “Graduate Attribute”; courses comprising the BS degree curriculum will cover all “Student Learning Tasks”; and a suitable scheme of assessment and self‐evaluation will connect all elements together for continuous improvement purposes. The template helps to clarify relations among EC 2000 components, and sifts content from format in doing so. Some information matrix formats are recommended, and the paper closes by indicating how program characteristics such as subject‐matter integration and cooperative learning may be defined using some of the matrices presented.