Program Overview

Introduction to the Engineering Honors Program

The Engineering Honors Program (EHP) at the College of Engineering and Applied Science provides an exceptional educational experience that transcends the classroom, focusing on community and tailored to match students' personal abilities and ambitions.

Program Overview

Being part of the Honors Program offers students the opportunity to belong to a community of dedicated fellow students and faculty, where they can find true peers. EHP students are a diverse group, including musicians, artists, gourmet cooks, writers, athletes, and student leaders, all striving to become engineers, development workers, educators, entrepreneurs, medical doctors, professors, researchers, and environmental policy makers.

Core Philosophies

The program is committed to the following shared philosophies:

• We are ambitious without being competitive
• We are serious without being obsessive
• We enjoy engineering without being defined by it
• We are intentional about what we want to become
• We care more about who we are than about how we appear to others

Student Successes and Achievements

EHP students have achieved numerous successes, including:

• Many NASA astronaut scholars
• First place teams in the COMAP International Mathematical Modeling Contest
• A dozen NSF Graduate Fellowships
• A Churchill Scholar to Cambridge University
• A Truman Scholar
• A Gates-Cambridge Fellowship to Cambridge
• A Marshall Scholar to the UK
• A Udall Scholar
• National award-winning leadership and projects for Engineers without Borders
• Many Goldwater Scholars
• Students pursuing graduate work at prestigious universities such as CalTech, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Hopkins, University of Washington, Texas A&M, and Northwestern
• At least four EHP alumni are now faculty at major universities, including CU Boulder and Cornell University
• A Peace Corps volunteer who taught in Namibia
• A Math for America Fellow who taught in the Bronx
• Alumni with notable jobs in industry, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, SpaceX, JPL, Lincoln Labs at MIT, Conoco-Philips, Lockheed, Boeing, J.D. Powers, NASA, and more

Academics and Benefits

The EHP is not a curriculum-driven honors program but offers small versions of the regular math sequence, including Calc 1, 2, 3, and DifEq.

Residential Academic Program

The Williams Village North Residential Academic Program is a cornerstone of the EHP's commitment to community, serving as the home of the Engineering Honors Program and the EHP Faculty Director. Although only incoming Honors students are required to live in the residence, a significant percentage choose to stay for multiple years. The residence features classroom and study spaces, a residential faculty member, in-house design and research teams, and returning Honors students, making it a unique place on campus for students to thrive.

Admission and Selection Process

The Engineering Honors Program has its own review and selection process, separate from the Admissions process to CU Boulder and the College of Engineering and Applied Science. To be accepted into the program, students must also be accepted into the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science.