Abet Criteria 2000 And Biomedical Engineering; Some Initial Evaluator Impressions

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has after almost a decade of effort developed a new program review process called “Engineering Criteria 2000,” a change from a prescriptive evaluation to one based on program defined missions and objectives with an emphasis on outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to provide the author’s general impressions of Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000). The author is a trained ABET biomedical engineering program evaluator who has conducted one visit under EC2000, and two evaluations under the preEC2000. Note clearly that information received from the ABET site visit conducted under EC2000 by the author is not revealed in this report, but rather this is a report providing a general reaction to the new review process.