Atsushi Akera, RPI
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In 2009, Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET initiated an internal review of the “EC 2000” criteria that it set up during the 1990s. This has resulted in a broad set of recommended changes to Criterion 3 (Student Outcomes) and Criterion 5 (Curriculum), along with new aspirational language and definitions placed within an augmented preamble to the current Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. These changes have elicited considerable discussion among engineering educators, and will be a featured topic at the American Society for Engineering Education’s 2016 annual meeting in New Orleans. Also, among the changes are also a set of “combined criteria” that will be of especial interest to those committed to engineering and liberal arts integration.
During this session, we will be conducting, in effect, a “dry-run” of the ASEE Interdivisional Town Hall Meeting. While we will not have the benefit of an assembled panel, we will pursue this as a collective and interactive process that includes:
- An overview of the proposed changes and associated dialogue
- A brief Q&A period
- A straw poll on which changes or numbered elements of the current draft response impacts E&LE integration and/or interests us the most
- Form breakout groups on the selected issues
Each breakout group will have the opportunity to discuss their topic during the lunch period, and compose a comment or draft statement during or shortly after the symposium that can be carried forward into the ASEE Town Hall Meeting itself. We encourage those attending to review the documents found on this page prior to this session.