Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)



A program must evaluate whether graduates are meeting the educational objectives using assessment processes to im- prove the program and demonstrate whether students are achieving the program outcomes before graduation. Through time, continuous improvement allows a program to demon- strate that graduates have achieved desired outcomes by mea- suring outcomes related to objectives and using these results to further develop and improve the curriculum through input from constituents. A program must collect data and document the process used to demonstrate that objectives and outcomes are being achieved. An example used at ABET Visitor Training Sessions to describe these terms is: ➤ Objective: Graduates will be able to communicate with

people throughout the world. ➤ Outcome: Students must be able to speak 12 languages

before graduation. ➤ Assessment: Students can speak only 10 languages. A

new process is being put in place to increase the number

of spoken languages by students.