Preparing ABET Accreditation for An Undergraduate Software Engineering Program

In this article, we share our seven-year experience in preparing for ABET accreditation for the undergraduate Software Engineering program offered at the University of Central Oklahoma. We present our approach to the preparation with a focused discussion of the general and the program-specific accreditation criteria required by ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. As most computer science graduates work in the area of software development, we hope our experience can benefit computer science departments similar to our setup and promote better undergraduate education in the area of software engineering.