“…is a tiny technical school , smaller than a high school making a dent? NO. …What Harvey Mudd says or does is a blip on the graph and changes nothing.”
Harvey Mudd College was visited by ABET in 1997 as part of a pilot program to help in the implementation of their new criteria for engineering education (EC2000). HMC had been essentially meeting those criteria since the early 1960s. So Harvey Mudd served as a model for implementing the EC2000 criteria that all engineering schools and departments now strive for to get ABET accreditation.
Harvey Mudd started the Engineering Clinic in the 1960s. That is the model for many school’s senior capstone project.
Many schools are now adopting the practices that Harvey Mudd implemented to attract more women to CS. Harvey Mudd is an outsized blip on the graph and changes things for a lot of schools.