A Profile Of The 21st Century Engineering Technology Graduate: An Industry Perspective

By any reasonable standard, Engineering Technology (ET) is a young profession as well as a relatively new university program, It has only been thirty-one years since the ASEE published the basis for the criteria used to accredit four year Engineering Technology Bachelor degree programs in the “McCallick Report.” Industry saw the first four-year accredited ET programs at Purdue, Brigham Young University and University of Houston in 1967.* However today, according to the 1992 TAC/ABET 60th Annual Report, there are 303 accredited Bachelor of Science/Engineering Technology programs at 116 colleges and universities. It is evident that the number of ET programs has exploded over the past 25 years.2