Stating Your Educational Objectives [From the Editor]

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IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007 I trust that everyone has had a restful and productive summer. For me, this summer has been filled with travel around the world. Apart from short trips all over the United States and a vacation at Cape Cod, I attended the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Hawaii and the EMBS Annual International Conference in Lyon, France. I still find it hard to believe that summer is coming to a close and another school year has begun. I hope that you will enjoy this issue on eHealth applications from guest editors Ilias Maglogiannis, Manolis Wallace, and Kostas Karpouzis. The importance of eHealth is critical for treatment and diagnosis of disease for the aging population around the world. This column is a continuation on my BME accreditation experience at UConn. At the ASEE meeting, I attended many excellent presentations on accreditation, ranging from accreditation best practices to assessment of program outcomes. I highly recommend this conference to all preparing for an accreditation visit. The self-study for our program was completed in June and sent to ABET with a great sense of relief. It totaled 219 pages. It is hard to believe all the work that went into this document by our ABET Committee. There are still a few last-minute additions to the self-study that will be added before our visit in the fall as more input from our alumni and their employers is received. I have been collecting alumni and employer survey data for the past two years for assessment of criterion 2 (program educational objectives). In an article published in 2003 [1], these objectives are described as