Certificate in Engineering Leadership

The Engineering Leadership Program (ENLP) confronts leadership challenges in applied science using liberal arts pedagogy. The program aims to cultivate engineering leaders of curiosity and character who combine technical expertise with moral principles and political literacy to address society’s most pressing scientific and technological problems.ENLP offers a wide variety of courses on the thought and practice of leadership, many of which utilize primary source texts in history, the philosophy of science, moral philosophy, political science, and anthropology. The program’s courses count for humanities and social sciences credit in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and most courses are discussion-based seminars. Students with a deep interest in ENLP’s curriculum are encouraged to pursue the Engineering Leadership Certificate and develop long-term relationships with faculty. Such students may also wish to take courses in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, many of which count for credit toward the certificate.

The Engineering Leadership Program (ENLP) confronts leadership challenges in applied science using liberal arts pedagogy. The program aims to cultivate engineering leaders of curiosity and character who combine technical expertise with moral principles and political literacy to address society’s most pressing scientific and technological problems.