ABSTRACT
At its 1997 Annual Assembly, the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC) discussed both input and output standards at length, and expressed its concern about the over-emphasis on input standards, stressing that the profession should be measuring output standards. Indeed, EPC support for SARTOR 3 was on the explicit understanding that appropriate output standards would be in place by the time that the new criteria had worked their way through to the graduate level, say five years. The EPC resolved to address this need and established an Output Standards Working Group later in the year. This working group contained representatives of all the major branches of engineering (chemical, civil, electrical, electronic, manufacturing and mechanical) and consulted widely both within HE and beyond.
