1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
ABET
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
Vision
ABET will provide world leadership to assure quality and stimulate innovation in engineering, technology and applied science education.

2. ABET Requirements for Graduates of General Engineering Programs
Technical Education
Ability to Communicate
Ability to Apply Education to Outside Endeavors
Further Goals for a Complete Education

3. Technical Aspect of Education
Application of Science, Mathematical and Engineering Principles
Ability to Design and Conduct Experiments and to Analyze and Interpret Data Collected
Ability to Design Systems, Components and Processes
Ability to Identify, Formulate and Solve Engineering Problems

4. Communications Aspect of Education
Function in Multidisciplinary Teams
Written and Oral Communication Skills

5. Application of Skills Acquired During Education
Understand Professional and Ethical Responsibility
Knowledge of Contemporary Issues
Use in Engineering Practice

6. General Aspects of Education
Broad Education Necessary to Understand the Impact of Engineering Solutions in a Global and Social Context
Recognition of ,the Need for and Ability to Engage in, Lifelong Learning

7. ABET Biomedical Engineering Curriculum Requirements
Understanding of Biology and Physiology
Ability to Apply Advanced Mathematics Such as Differential Equations and Statistics
Ability to Combine Science and Engineering to Solve Problems
Ability to Make Measurements and Interpret Data from Living Systems
Ability to Address Problems Associated the Interaction of Living and Non-Living Materials

8. Evaluating Vanderbilt
How All BME Classes Fit In
How Class Curriculums Compare
Decide What Criteria Need to be Met
Decide How to Evaluate if Goals are Being Met

9. Measuring Criteria Committee to Review Student Development
Set-up Data Base for Each Graduating Student (Implemented in BME 272)
Written and Oral Communication
Senior Design Projects
Survey to Graduating Seniors
Ethical Responsibility
Contemporary Issues

10. Measuring Criteria Survey to Alumni
Reevaluation of criteria
Survey to Medical School, Graduate Schools, Employers
Evaluation of Student/Employee Qualifications
Overall Satisfaction with Vanderbilt Graduates

11. Determine educational
The Two Loops of EC2000
Determine educational
objectives
Determine Outcomes
Required to Achieve
Objectives
Evaluate/Assess
Determine How
Outcomes will be
Achieved
Input from
Constituencies
Formal Instruction
Student Activities
Determine How
Outcomes will be
Assessed
Establish Indicators
that Objectives are
Being Achieved