Ok, I don't know how many of you have had to deal with this but I'm hoping maybe someone can give me some advice.

ABET is the Accreditation Board of Engineering & Technology, they are the people that review courses for colleges and decidide if you degree is worth a darn. I'm am in my second to last quarter at Wright State University and went in for review for graduation. Turns out that they didn't mark down the transfer credits from my associates degree for the Technical Electives. And now they are refusing to transfer them on the grounds that they are from and ABET accredited Engineering Technology program and now I am in an ABET accredited Engineering program. However, the only diffrence between the two programs is that Engineering technology is algebra based and engineering is calculus based. But this has nothing to do with the 20 credits in Autocad classes and 15 credits in machnining classes. Yet they won't accept them becuase of the ABET program I was in. Does anyone else have experiance with this? Is there any way to force them to tranfer the credits? I contacted ABET and they said they have no actuall rules over governing what will transfer for technical electives. Yet Wright State claims ABET is the reason they can't transfer the credits.

 

I got into a sort of similar situation in school, took some electives in a 2-yr school that my 4-yr school didn't recognize because they don't offer similar classes. Ended up just writing a letter to the department head, with help of my advisor, asking to sub them (total credit hours wasn't a problem, just a couple technical electives), and they did.

As far as I know, ABET has little or no say in this--each school or department can handle things as they see fit. They are the ones presenting the degree, not ABET.

Changing from an engineering technology program to a pure engineering program usually means taking calc 1-3 and Diff E, and more theory-type classes (physics, etc). My degree is Engineering Technology and dealt with more hands-on, practical stuff. I took the math and science classes because I started out as an engineering major, but no 4-yr engr programs around so I ended as engr tech. If you've had those math and theory classes, there should not be any problem, you might have to ask the dept head to look at what electives you've taken. A pure engr degree might not focus on Autocad and machining, though--might be a matter of what type of electives you've had.