The McBride Honors Program, instituted in 1978 through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a 24 semester-hour program of seminars and off-campus activities that has as its primary goal:
To provide a select community of CSM students the enhanced opportunity to explore the interfaces between their areas of technical expertise and the humanities and social sciences; to gain the sensitivity to project and test the moral and social implications of their future professional judgments and activities; and to foster their leadership abilities in preparation for managing change and promoting the general welfare in an evolving technological and global context.
To achieve this goal, the program seeks to bring themes from the humanities and the social sciences into the engineering curriculum that will encourage in students the habits of thought necessary for effective management and enlightened leadership.
"Engineering is an expression of the human experience rather than just making stuff."
Phillip Wolfram, McBride student, Class of 2008
"This program is founded on the ideal that pure technical problems do not exist- only those embedded in political, cultural, ethical, and moral problems. Our purpose is to produce a graduate who will both know and act on this reality."
Dr. Robert E.D. Woolsey
Emeritus Professor
Although the educational experiences in the McBride Honors Program are rigorous and demand a high degree of persistence from the students, CSM graduates who have completed the program have gained positions of their choice in industry and have been quite successful in winning admission to high-quality graduate and professional schools.
