nature of the ABET organization—a federation of professional societies—and its resourcing model. In April 2017, despite ASCE’s opposition, the Board of Delegates approved the natural sciences initiative and formally changed the names of the Applied Science Commission and the Applied Science Area Delegation to reflect their expanded scope of responsibilities.• Major criteria revisions – In 2009, the ABET EAC initiated a major revision to Criteria 3 and 5 of the EAC Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs—the first such change since the Engineering Criteria 2000 initiative of the late 1990s. The EAC disseminated the first draft of this revision to Member Societies as a “pre-proposal” in July 2014. Revised draft