Technology Education In The Next Century: Is The Proposed Tac/Abet Criteria Compatible?

American higher education in the last decade of the twentieth century faces escalating costs, uneven demographics, faltering revenues, and serious erosion of public confidence [1]. This depressing picture of academia is emerging at a time when concern over the declining competitiveness of the products of American businesses and industry has made increased productivity a national obsession [2]. All national issues that emerge in American society sooner or later seem to surface on our campuses.