1. Understanding ABET

2. An example
Objective: Graduates will be able to communicate with people throughout the world.
Outcome: Students must be able to speak 12 languages before graduation.
Assessment: Students can speak only 10 languages. A new process is being put in place to increase the number of spoken languages by students.

3. Course Assessment
Assessment is a faculty activity that should result in change such as
adoption of new textbooks,
teaching techniques, and
laboratory procedures/experiments.

4. Outcomes Assessment
To demonstrate that graduates have achieved desired
outcomes, some programs use student portfolios, collecting
studentwork from the freshman year to the senior year using a
WWW-based approach. This tool is useful in demonstrating
that outcomes have been achieved. Another mechanism is to
use national exams, such as the Fundamentals of Engineering
(FE) exam; this exam also allows for comparison among
institutions.