Honors Program

Program Description

The ECE Honors Program is designed to intellectually challenge extremely well-qualified students during their undergraduate college experience. Students in the ECE Honors Program are required to satisfy three general requirements:

• Complete two graduate courses as senior electives;
• Conduct approved research or perform a significant industrial project under the supervision of a professor in the department, typically demonstrated by presentation of a conference paper or preparation and defense of a thesis (similar to a graduate defense); and
• Maintain a 3.5 GPA in all coursework.

Program Benefits

Some of the benefits of the engineering honors program are:

• Interaction with other highly motivated and academically successful students,
• Close collaboration with a research or consulting professor during the junior and/or senior year,
• Potential opportunity to attend and present a paper at a national professional conference, and
• Additional "with departmental honors" designation to permanent transcripts.

Eligibility

Students in the second and third undergraduate years are eligible for admission to the program. Due to the additional course, research and project requirements of the program, seniors are not eligible. The number of students admitted to the program is limited.

The general requirements for eligibility are:

1. 3.5 GPA,
2. Application essay,
3. Recommendation from at least one ECE faculty member, and
4. Interview with the ECE Undergraduate Studies Committee.