The Information Engineering Technology (IET) program at Northern New Mexico College (Northern or NNMC) was created in 2009. From its conception, a main goal of the institution was to be ABET accredited. To that end, the Department of Engineering built a program based on the input of an external advisory board that tailored the IEEE/ACM guidelines for IT programs to the local needs, following a continuous quality improvement (CQI) plan that addressed the eight General Criteria and the Program Criteria established by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET. In October of 2014, the IET was accredited by the ETAC Commission of ABET, with the next comprehensive review being scheduled by 2019. This paper describes the accreditation process for the IET program at Northern New Mexico College from its conception to accreditation.