Program specific criteria are drawn from ABET Accreditation Workbooks, which themselves
leave quite a bit up to the subjective understanding of the individual reviewer. Nearly all
engineering programs require knowledge of science fundamentals and higher level math. CAD
skills, while note required explicitly by most programs, are useful in most forms of engineering
and are an example that shows the use of modern engineering tools. Computer science is listed as
a separate category to distinguish the very few maker projects which were solely app based
rather than those which required both hardware and software components. Finally,
Manufacturing Engineering was taken to include prototype fabrication as well as designs that
were meant to be broadly distributed and used by a wide audience.