Program Accreditation

The NDSU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABEN) program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 - telephone: 410-347-7700. The last ABET evaluation was in the year 2006. The program objectives and outcomes of the program are:

Objective 1:

Graduates will become engineers with the ability to use their technical knowledge, design, and problem solving skills throughout their careers. This will be accomplished   by ensuring that graduates have ability to:

1. ABET-a : Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering,

2. ABET-b : Design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data,

3. ABET-c : Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability,

4. ABET-e : Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, and

5. ABET-k : Use techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

Objective 2:

Graduates will become engineers who have interpersonal and collaborative skills and the capacity for productive careers. This will be accomplished by ensuring that graduates have:

1. ABET-d : An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,

2. ABET-f : An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility,

3. ABET-g : An ability to communicate effectively,

4. ABET-h : The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context,

5. ABET-i : Recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in lifelong learning, and

6. ABET-j : Knowledge of contemporary issues.

Objective 3:

Graduates will become engineers who can use their disciplinary knowledge, educational depth, and breadth to deal with changing career opportunities in agricultural and closely related biological industries. This will be accomplished by ensuring that graduates have competencies in one or more of the following areas:

1. ABET-l (i) : Ability to apply engineering skills to agricultural systems,

2. ABET-l (ii) : Ability to apply engineering skills to biomaterials systems, and 

3. ABET-l (iii) : Ability to apply engineering skills to environmental systems.