Accreditation of Engineering Programs and Their Relationship to Lifelong Learning

This chapter briefly outlines the history of accreditation of engineering programs in the United States, the development of Engineering Criteria 2000, and the move toward outcomes-based assessment in the form of ABET Criteria 3a–k. For the first time, Criteria 3i on lifelong learning was recognized as an important outcome for engineering programs.

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