The Master Of Engineering As The First Accredited Degree

The Speed Scientific School, the engineering school of the University of Louisville, offers the 5-year, integrated, professional Master of Engineering (M. Eng.) degree, with mandatory co-operative internship, as its first ABET-accredited program. Currently we are the only chemical engineering program in the country accredited by ABET at the advanced or master’s level. There are a few other accredited master’s programs in the other branches of engineering, and recently some schools have instituted professional master of engineering degrees to complement their accredited B.S. programs. There are positives and negatives to our procedure as with any other, and the following article attempts to put these in perspective. The reader who wishes a more in-depth background and rationale should consult a previous article on our program by Deshpande and Plankl.