Faculty Success includes a suite of base reports designed to support ABET accreditation preparation. This article provides an overview of ABET accreditation and its faculty-related reporting requirements, describes each report in the Faculty Success ABET suite, explains how to request the reports and configure access, and covers setup options that affect how certain reports behave. Preparing ABET reports in Faculty Success is an administrative function, managed and generated by Faculty Success Administrators, Deans, and Department Heads on behalf of the programs they support.
This article is intended for Faculty Success Administrators, Deans, and Department Heads responsible for preparing ABET accreditation materials.
About ABET Accreditation and Commissions
ABET is a nonprofit, ISO 9001-certified quality assurance organization and the leading accreditor of technical programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET accreditation provides assurance that a program meets the quality standards of the profession for which it prepares graduates.
For institutions, ABET accreditation signals that a program promotes best practices in education, directly involves faculty in self-assessment and continuous quality improvement, and produces graduates prepared to enter critical technical fields. For faculty, it demonstrates that their qualifications, professional development, and workload contributions meet recognized standards. The accreditation process is conducted through a voluntary peer review, carried out by professionals from industry, academia, and government. To learn more, visit Why ABET Accreditation Matters on the ABET website.
ABET organizes its accreditation activities across four commissions, each serving a distinct area of technical education:
- EAC - Engineering Accreditation Commission
- ANSAC - Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission
- CAC - Computing Accreditation Commission
- ETAC - Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission
Each commission publishes its own Self-Study Questionnaire, which programs use to document compliance with accreditation criteria. Criterion 6 of each questionnaire addresses faculty qualifications, workload, and professional development — the areas directly supported by the Faculty Success ABET reporting suite. Always use the most current questionnaire for your commission and review cycle, available at the ABET Self-Study Templates page.
The Faculty Success ABET Reporting Suite
The Faculty Success ABET reporting suite includes four reports aligned to the faculty sections of the ABET Self-Study Questionnaire, as well as a companion screen that supports one of them. The reports are administratively managed and generated — faculty are not expected to run these reports. The underlying activity data they draw from, however, depends on faculty keeping their profiles current. Administrators should plan data review and preparation in advance of each accreditation cycle.
The suite includes:
ABET Table 6-1 Faculty Qualifications
A standardized table of faculty qualifications included in the Self-Study Questionnaire. It documents each faculty member's education, experience, rank, appointment type, and professional registrations. For programs accredited by ANSAC, ETAC, or CAC, it also includes Level of Activity ratings and, for CAC programs, a narrative section describing each faculty member's competency and currency within the discipline. Faculty Success provides three commission-specific versions of this report:
- ABET Table 6-1 Faculty Qualifications (EAC)
- ABET Table 6-1 Faculty Qualifications (ANSAC & ETAC)
- ABET Table 6-1 Faculty Qualifications (CAC)
For detailed data mapping and field-level guidance, see ABET Table 6-1 Faculty Qualifications.
ABET Table 6-2 Faculty Workload Summary
A standardized table summarizing the courses each faculty member taught during the reporting period and, for ANSAC, CAC, and ETAC programs, how faculty time is distributed across teaching, research, and other program activities. Faculty Success provides two commission-specific versions:
- ABET Table 6-2 Faculty Workload Summary (EAC)
- ABET Table 6-2 Faculty Workload Summary (ANSAC, CAC & ETAC)
For detailed data mapping and field-level guidance, see ABET Table 6-2 Faculty Workload Summary.
ABET Appendix B Faculty Vita
A custom curriculum vita formatted to ABET's Appendix B specifications, including education, academic and professional experience, certifications, professional organization memberships, honors and awards, service activities, publications and presentations from the past five years, and faculty development activities attended. Unlike the table reports, this report is driven by administrator selections made on a dedicated companion screen — the ABET Vitae screen — rather than by date-range filtering alone. A single version of this report supports all four commissions.
For guidance on the ABET Vitae screen and how each section maps to Faculty Success activity data, see ABET Appendix B Faculty Vitae.
ABET Professional Development Summary
A summary report of professional development activities completed by faculty, organized by College, Department/Program, and Activity Type. It supports the professional development section of the Self-Study Questionnaire, which asks programs to provide detailed descriptions of professional development activities for each faculty member. An optional citation display setting generates a full detail section listing each faculty member's activities individually. A single version of this report supports all four commissions.
For guidance on the report options and data source, see ABET Professional Development Summary.
Requesting and Setting Up the ABET Reports
The ABET reports are base reports maintained by Watermark and deployed to Faculty Success instances by request. Institutions that do not yet have the reports, or that are using an older version of the suite, must submit a Report Setup Work Request through the Work Request utility in Faculty Success to have the current versions put in place.
Your Work Request should include the following:
- A request to put the base ABET reports in place. If you already have older versions, confirm that you want the current versions to replace them or specify the names you would like them to carry going forward.
- The commissions your institution needs reports for. If you do not need all four commissions, specify only the reports you require.
- Confirm all changes may be applied to your Yearly Data ADMIN or if you would like to track it as a separate screen.
- ABET Level of Activity Section
- CAC Only Competency and Currency Text Area
- Percent of Time Dedicated to the School's Mission (Shared by AACSB)
- The Security Roles that should have access to run the reports. A list of your institution's Security Roles can be viewed by selecting View Security Roles on the Users and Security page.
- If access should be restricted to specific colleges rather than all users in your Faculty Success instance, include that list as well.
Watermark will follow up with any additional questions and confirm the screen changes required to put the suite in place.
Note: The ABET reports are intended for administrative use. The Faculty security role does not typically require access to these reports. When specifying Security Roles in your Work Request, we recommend limiting access to Administrator and Dean-level roles, or any college-scoped roles used by staff supporting accreditation preparation.
Configuration Options
Two configuration decisions affect how specific reports behave and should be addressed as part of your setup.
Percent of Time Dedicated to the School's Mission (Table 6-2)
The ABET Table 6-2 Faculty Workload Summary (ANSAC, CAC & ETAC) includes a column for each faculty member's percent of time devoted to the program. This value is drawn from the Percent of Time Dedicated to the School's Mission field on the Yearly Data screen.
By default, this field is configured at the screen level, meaning one value applies across all of a faculty member's college and department assignments. In this configuration, the report displays each faculty member once, under their primary department or program.
Alternatively, this field can be configured at the Department/Program level, allowing a separate value to be recorded for each department or program a faculty member belongs to. In this configuration, the faculty member will appear on the report under each of their department/program assignments, each with their respective percentage. If your institution has faculty who serve across multiple programs and need to report separate time allocations for each, include this request in your Work Request when setting up the suite.
ABET Vitae Screen Access
The ABET Vitae screen used to prepare the Appendix B report is read-only for faculty by default and is managed by users with Manage Data: Read/Write access. If your institution would like faculty to manage their own ABET Vitae screen, include a request to make the screen editable for faculty in your Work Request or submit a separate Work Request when you are ready to make that change. For more information on the ABET Vitae screen, see ABET Appendix B Faculty Vitae.
Data Readiness
The ABET reports draw from faculty activity data already in Faculty Success. While the reports are run by administrators, the quality of the output depends on faculty maintaining accurate and complete records in their profiles. In practice, this means coordinating with faculty and department staff well in advance of each accreditation cycle to confirm that the required data is in place.
Key data sources across the suite include the Degrees, Professional Positions, Yearly Data, Scheduled Teaching, Workload Information, Licensures and Certifications, Professional Organizations, Publications/Intellectual Contributions, Presentations, Awards and Honors, University Service, Professional Service, Public Service, Professional Development, and Faculty Development Activities Attended screens, as well as the Permanent Data screen for each faculty member's Start Date at University. Each individual report article identifies the specific screens and fields it uses.
For administrators managing data in bulk, see CSV Imports: Updating Yearly Data to support the ABET Reporting Suite for guidance on preparing and loading data efficiently.