Successful Assessment of the Computer Engineering Technology Program

ETAC/ABET-accredited programs have demonstrated their excellence during rigorous, objective, periodic reviews conducted by external evaluators. Two main parts of the accreditation process are the ABET student outcomes and ABET program criteria. For computer engineering technology programs, ETAC/ABET specifies (a-k) student outcomes and (a-e) program criteria. Our Computer Engineering Technology program developed eight student outcomes and mapped them to the ABET student outcomes (a-k) and the ABET program criteria (a-e). The computer engineering technology program has successfully performed two improvement points regarding ABET accreditation. The first improvement is regarding the student outcomes and the second improvement is related to the ABET program criteria. The goal of this paper is to share the improvement to avoid having weaknesses in computer engineering technology programs. ABET evaluators look for these points and emphasis the importance of an efficient assessment process. One main goal of the paper is to propose five rubrics that can be used to assess the ABET program criteria (a-e) for any computer engineering technology program.