An alumni survey can be crafted which will evaluate even a small engineering program's success in imparting the abilities enumerated in the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) guidelines. The core of the survey consists in its analysis of alumni ranking of both the importance of, and preparation in, the eleven key desired outcomes. Its originality lies in its establishing certain threshold percentages in the difference in perception of importance and preparation which indicate a level of under‐preparedness demanding immediate attention, so that the survey can function as an objective assessment tool. The responses of specific aggregates can also be analyzed in this manner, providing insight on the different perspectives of alumni by degree program, career path, and other demographic groupings.

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We have been maintaining the Engineering Department's website at Hofstra University for the past five years and our experience has been a mixed one: on the one hand it usually takes a few days to make even minor modifications to the website while on the other, the chain of checks and balances ensures that the updates work and the accuracy of the new information is high. We thought it will be an interesting and useful exercise to analyze and qualitatively evaluate the website maintenance policy at Hofstra compared to other universities so that this information will help all concerned stakeholders to make modifications to the policy, if needed. We used the NFR Framework for the analysis and evaluation, and compared the closely related NFRs (or Non-Functional Requirements) of maintainability and cost (both, time and money costs), for the three different website maintenance policies used in the academia including that of Hofstra Engineering Department, and concluded that while there are tradeoffs involved, small changes in Hofstra's policies could significantly increase the maintainability of the Engineering Department website.