It seemed like they already reviewed the reports and were anxiously waiting to beat each other in the competition for nit-picking on the contents of the reports. At that point, I was startled so much that I woke up and realized that I was actually dreaming. They call them Evaluators or Visitors. They are plain ordinary, friendly people like your colleagues and people from industry. They are the people who visit the institution, one for each program, and accompanied by a team leader for the entire team of visitors.
Institutions submit self-study reports on their programs to ABET prior to the visits.
The visitors study the reports and during the visit verify the contents by talking to administrators, faculty, and students, and by touring facilities. Based on evaluations by the visitors, and following a sequence of opportunities for due process, an accreditation decision is voted upon by the ABET Board of Directors. Yes, now I realize I must have gotten that dream because our Curriculum Committee has been deliberating on the Advanced Math requirement for our EE Program. In fact, since I am an evaluator myself, I should have known better than getting startled by the dream. The course goals for a given course state succinctly the purpose of the course and its linkage, if any, to other courses.