Honors Engineering Leadership Minor
The Honors Engineering Leadership Minor is a fantastic opportunity for eligible students seeking a more robust, challenging academic experience. The program prepares scholars to work in a multidisciplinary way with other professionals from fields like public policy, business, law, ethics, and social and human behavior.
Program overview
The Honors Engineering Leadership Minor (HELM) provides a unique opportunity for honors students to add courses and experiences to their plan of engineering study that will provide the context and depth necessary to be a well-rounded engineering leader approaching the challenges of the new century. HELM is open to students in the Chancellor’s Honors, Haslam Scholars, or Cook Grand Challenge Honors programs.
Elements of the minor include entrepreneurial basics, leadership and communication skill development, organizational and social psychology, service learning, and a capstone leadership experience.
Why Get an Honors Engineering Leadership Minor?
The objective of HELM is to help engineering students learn the leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills necessary to apply their technical skills in professional situations. Through a combination of coursework and projects, students learn to develop their own leadership style and skills to become effective and influential engineers.
Featured Courses
EF 337 Honors: Leadership Skills
Focuses on developing leadership skills. Provides students with self-assessment, developmental exercises, and case studies to prepare them for leadership roles.
ENT 350 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
An introduction to entrepreneurship with an emphasis on identifying, evaluating, and developing new venture opportunities. Topics include opportunity identification and evaluation, start-up strategies, business valuation, business plan development, attracting stakeholders, financing the venture, managing the growing business, and exit strategies.
UNHO 267 Honors: Special Topics in the Social Sciences
Examination of a selected issue in the social sciences from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Topics vary.
CMST 442 Organizational Communication Processes
Theory and practice of how people in organizations interact.
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