Maker faires and artifact elicitation interview protocols themselves offer a possible way for engineering educators to harness the Maker Mindset for their students. In a student driven, project based course, a mini-maker faire, the equivalent perhaps of an art class’s gallery final, combined with professors asking probing questions on the skills learned in the creation, successful or not, of a student’s artifact could lead to successfully accomplishing ABET Student Outcomes. While perhaps more time consuming than a multiple choice test, an instructor can clearly determine what skills were used in the creation of an artifact through a semi-structured interview with the student.