Curricular And Student Characteristics Of Accredited Engineering/General Engineering Programs

The majority of accredited engineering programs in the United States are discipline-oriented programs, such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, etc., for which the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation criteria comprise both the general criteria that apply to all accredited engineering programs and the accompanying program criteria for that specific area of engineering. The remaining set of accredited engineering programs has no applicable program criteria. These programs are accredited under the general criteria only. Some of these programs also have descriptors that include an adjective that accompanies the word engineering in their title but for which there are no applicable program criteria. Within this subset of accredited programs for which there are no program criteria, an earlier paper reviewed the general status and uses of Engineering programs (the set of programs for which the program name is Engineering or General Engineering). 1 Another paper focused on the history and trends among both Engineering and Engineering Science programs. 2