Minimizing Effort for ABET Student Outcomes Assessment While Maintaining Effective Results

In this paper, I provide the Miller Methodology for minimizing the amount of effort necessary for assessing student outcomes through ABET accreditation. A single faculty member is responsible for gathering of the outcome data, and the entire program faculty can then assess the data as it related to the continuous improvement process. This methodology provides for an efficient use of the time of faculty members of a program while still maintaining credibility with respect to the use of student outcome data in the accreditation process. This methodology was used during the 2015-2016 accreditation cycle for the Computer Science (CSCI) and Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) programs in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Both programs achieved full accreditation from the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission, and the Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) program achieved full accreditation from the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission.