Confused by the "new" abbreviations?
If you were trained recently it all went by quickly.
If you were trained a few years ago none of us were quite sure about anything.

Here are some helpful words.  Most of them come from the current version of our training slides.

• Primary organization responsible for monitoring, evaluating and certifying the quality of engineering, engineering technology, computing and applied sciences education in the United States
• Recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
• Federation of 31 technical and professional societies representing over 1.8 million practicing professionals

For more detailed information go to http://www.abet.org/organization.html
 
 

Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC)

Recommends accreditation criteria

Conducts the accreditation process

Assigns Team Chairs to visits

Makes final accreditation decisions

For more detailed information go to http://www.abet.org/cac1.html
 
 

CSAB




• Functions as a professional federation drawing from ACM, IEEE-CS, AIS and others
• Lead society for Computer Science (CS), Software Engineering (SE) and Information Systems (IS) accreditation
• Cooperating society for Computer Engineering and Information Engineering Technology accreditation
• Through its Program Evaluator and Program Criteria (PEPC)
• Develops program-specific criteria for CS, IS, and SE accreditation
• Selects, trains and evaluates program evaluators for the CS, IS and SE accreditation
• Administrative Structure
• Past President
• Executive Director
• Directors representing ACM (4)
• Directors representing IEEE-CS (4)
• Director representing AIS (1)
• Alternate Directors representing ACM (4)
• Alternate Directors representing IEEE-CS (4)
• Alternate Director representing AIS (1)