Strategy For Abet Self Study And Re Accreditation

The University of South Alabama Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is currently in a self-study year prior to seeking a comprehensive review of undergraduate programs in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering by ABET’s Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC). USA was the first university in the state of Alabama to successfully receive six-year accreditation of programs under the ABET EC 2000 criteria. The ECE Department has developed a strategy for streamlining the process of self-study by systematically organizing and compiling information for program review. It is essential that the necessary information be collected without omission, but there was much unnecessary and redundant information that was collected in the previous accreditation cycle. In this paper, the process of preparing for an ABET review and some useful strategies for deciding what is and what is not important are discussed.