Preparing for Program Accreditation Review Under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000: Creating a Database of Outcomes and Outcome Indicators for a Variety of Engineering Programs

Abstract

Abstract ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 require a selection of outcomes and outcome indicators for each educational objective adopted by an engineering program. This paper describes a database created using Microsoft Access 97 © linking choices of program outcomes and choices of program outcome indicators for all of the accredited engineering programs in an academic institution. With this database, benchmarking searches can be conducted by type of engineering program, by choice of outcome, or by choice of outcome indicator. Several example searches are presented using data describing the engineering programs at Clemson University. A web‐site address is given where copies of the Clemson database can be downloaded.