ABET accreditation process for engineering & technology programs: Detailed process flow from criteria 1 to criteria 8.

This paper illustrates the detailed accreditation process of ABET, Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, for accrediting engineering and Technology programs. ABET being non-governmental agency that accredits engineering & technology, applied & natural sciences, and computing sciences programs. ABET was founded on 10th May 1932 and was founded by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. International industries accept ABET accredited institute having highest standards in their academic programs. In this accreditation there are eight criterion in general, criterion 1 describes the student outcome evaluations, criteria 2 measures the program educational objectives, criteria 3 is the student outcome calculated from the marks obtained by students, criteria 4 establishes continuous improvement, criteria 5 focus on curriculum of the institute, criteria 6 is about faculties of this institute, criteria 7 measures the facilities provided by the institute and finally, criteria 8 focus on institutional support towards staff of the institute. In this paper we focused on the calculative part of each criterion with equations and suitable examples, the files and documentations required for each criterion and the total workflow of the process. The references and the values used to illustrate the calculations are all taken from the samples provided at ABET official website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]