Website: honors.villanova.edu
Email: honorsprogram@villanova.edu
Program Location: Garey Hall 106
Telephone: 610-519-4650
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Students who are accepted in the Honors Program upon their admission to the University have the ability to pursue the Honors Degree. Those pursuing an Honors Engineering Degree must complete the following requirements, which vary slightly by major. Honors students must also maintain a 3.33 cumulative GPA to remain in the program. All Honors students are advised by an academic advisor in their department, and the Honors Program provides additional advising support.
Academic Requirements:
The Honors Degree comprises 30-31 credits, depending on the Engineer’s major. To earn the Honors Degree, students must take the following courses.
- EGR 1200: HON: Eng Design Cornerstone
- EGR 2001: HON: Egr: Humanistic Context
- EGR 4007: Profess. & the Def. of Success taken in conjunction with the Engineering capstone course required for the student’s major according to the list below (EGR 4007 may be taken during the semester prior to the capstone course if the capstone course is taken during the Fall).
- Civil Engineering - CEE 4606: CEE Capstone II
- Chemical Engineering - CHE 4202: Process Controls
- Electrical and Computer Engineering - ECE 4975: Capstone Design II
- Mechanical Engineering - ME 5006: Capstone Design II
- Biomedical Engineering - BME 4005: BME Capstone ll
- One additional Honors Engineering course (chosen from the following):
- Undergraduate research course (no more than one semester of Undergraduate Research coursework may count). Course numbers vary by major; students would take the course in the department of their own major.
- Civil Engineering - CEE 4612: CEE Undergraduate Research
- Chemical Engineering - CHE 4832: Senior Project Studio II
- Electrical and Computer Engineering - ECE 5991: Elec Eng Research I
- Mechanical Engineering - ME 5001: ME Undergraduate Research I
- Biomedical Engineering - BME 5001: Undergraduate Research
- Other contracted Engineering course. This must be approved by the professor and by the Honors Program. See the Honors Program section of the Catalog for more information on contract courses.
- Graduate-level Engineering course. The course must be used towards the student’s undergraduate degree. See Honors Program section of the Catalog for more information.
- Study abroad Engineering course. The course must be approved by the Honors Program. See Honors Program section of the Catalog for more information.
- Undergraduate research course (no more than one semester of Undergraduate Research coursework may count). Course numbers vary by major; students would take the course in the department of their own major.
Six additional 3-credit Honors courses (or equivalent curricular options). See Honors Program section of the Catalog for more information about obtaining Honors credit for curricular options like contract courses, independent studies, study abroad courses, graduate courses, and colloquium bundles.