Surviving Abet Under The New Criteria From The Eyes Of New Chair In A New Ce Department
Ronald Welch
Abstract
So you are a new department chair and ABET is coming in the near future, who are you going to call? What are you going to do? This paper will cover the processes, experiences and lessons learned by a new department chair preparing for an ABET visit for the first time in a brand new department under the new 2008 Civil Engineering (CE) program criteria. The goal of this paper is to not only assist new department chairs and chairs of new departments, but also chairs of well established departments that have had a visit with some type of weakness at the exit statement. Throughout this process it is important to remember that we are ABET. This new chair is also an ABET Program evaluator (PEV) and took that insight to heart. It is ASCE committees that establish the CE program criteria that supplement the general program criteria used by CE ABET PEVs.