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The Historical and Structural Context for the Proposed Changes to ABET Accreditation Criteria

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Atsushi Akera

Publication year - 2016

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/p.26168

Subject(s) - accreditation , engineering ethics , context (archaeology) , politics , engineering education , value (mathematics) , curriculum , face (sociological concept) , professional association , political science , sociology , reputation , presidential system , engineering , management , public relations , pedagogy , social science , law , paleontology , machine learning , computer science , biology , economics

Atsushi Akera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering education reform in the United States (1945-present). He is Immediate Past Chair of the ASEE Liberal Education / Engineering and Society Division, and the current Lead for the ”Connecting Us” Team of the ASEE Board’s Strategic Doing Initiative. He is a former member of the Society for the History of Technology’s (SHOT) Executive Council, and Associate Editor of the international journal, /Engineering Studies/. His publications include /Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research/ (MIT Press, 2006).

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