Title :
A comparison of BSET transfer students from ABET-accredited and non-accredited community colleges
Author :
Barnes, William E.
Author_Institution :
New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology (BSET) program is a transfer program accepting students from county/community colleges throughout the state. Some of the feeder colleges are TAC/ABET accredited and some are not. The NJIT Electrical Engineering Technology program, a TAC/ABET accredited program, has been in existence for more than 15 years and a large amount of data is available on the success rate of these students. By comparing the data of students from TAC/ABET accredited lower-division programs with data of students from lower-division programs not TAC/ABET accredited, some conclusions can be drawn on the effectiveness of the TAC/ABET accreditation. Even though the programs listed in the catalogs are virtually identical, students from TAC/ABET accredited colleges are more successful academically than those from colleges not ABET accredited
Keywords :
education; engineering; ABET-accredited colleges; BSET program; Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology; NJIT; New Jersey Institute of Technology; community colleges; county colleges; lower-division programs; non-ABET accredited colleges; transfer students; Accreditation; Calculus; Catalogs; Circuit analysis; Educational institutions; Leg; Mathematical programming; Passive circuits; Physics; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1991. Twenty-First Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education in a New World Order.' Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
West Lafayette, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0222-2
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1991.187475
