@boneh3ad …and you clearly don’t understand what ABET gets you or doesn’t get you. Must have graduated from one of those schools that needed ABET accreditation.
^^^Even mighty Stanford has ABET accredited programs, so I guess they figured they also needed the accreditation…
MIT and Caltech and Berkeley and Michigan and Illinois and Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech and… they must be heartbroken to learn that being ABET-accredited makes them lesser schools. I’ll be sure to bring this up to my department head next time ABET stops by our department and see if the rest of the faculty would be interested in just forgetting about ABET so that we can be a better program.
@Gator88NE for three of nine programs, I’m sure they are really concerned about it.
@boneh3ad actually they probably would be happy about not having to waste a bunch of their time prepping for the ABET team review.
Of course they would. Anything that takes that kind of time away from research is going to annoy many faculty. Their tune would change when they suddenly found fewer students applying and enrolling, however.
Stanford engineering offers the following majors:
ABET accredited: chemical, civil, mechanical
Not ABET accredited: bio, computer science, electrical, environmental, management science, materials
*ABET accredited until very recently.
Of the non-ABET accredited programs, bioengineering, computer science, and management science are probably the ones where graduates are least likely to seek Professional Engineer licensing. Apparently, Stanford thinks that its electrical, environmental, and material engineering graduates are also unlikely to seek Professional Engineer licensing.
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