Engineering education leaves little room to develop interests outside of the technical field.
A concise and coherent plan, designed with the needs of engineering students in mind, helps the students make the best of a limited opportunity to explore their interests outside of the technical realm. The Herbst Humanities Program allows students to become acquainted with a variety of non-technical approaches of meaningful inquiry. By enlarging the students horizons, it creates positive and often unexpected perspectives. The program introduces students to different ways of thinking, laying the foundation for lifelong intellectual growth and curiosity about the world. It encourages a flexibility of mind which engineers, like other skilled professionals, require in a rapidly changing technological and social environment.