Area of
Special Interest**Humanitarian Studies and Technology** Humanitarian
Engineering
The Humanitarian Engineering Program
The Humanitarian Engineering Program gets you involved from your freshman year through your Senior Design capstone courses. Everyone at CSM will learn the fundamentals of engineering by the time you graduate. With the Humanitarian Engineering Program, you will turn those fundamentals into useful applications and directly apply them to the world.
The Humanitarian Engineering Program offers an Area of Special Interest, a Minor in Humanitarian Studies and Technology, and a Minor in Humanitarian Engineering. A special module in Nature and Human Values (NHV) serves as a gateway introduction to the program.
Download the Minor Declaration Form here: Minor-ASI-Form.pdf
Turn in completed form to Registrar's office.
New! Download a copy of the
Humanitarian Engineering Minor Program Course Checklist
to help guide you through your required courses.
An Area of Special Interest in Humanitarian Engineering requires 12 credit-hours:
Humanitarian Studies and Technology Requirements
A minor in Humanitarian Studies and Technology requires a total of 18 credit-hours:3 credit-hours must be from the following LAIS core courses:
6 credit-hours are selected from the following LAIS core courses:
6 credit-hours must be from one of the following area studies tracks:
*Note: With the approval of a Humanitarian Studies advisor, students may substitute
these 6 credit-hours with 6 credit-hours of
foreign language courses,
courses in the McBride Honors
Program in Engineering and Public Affairs, or courses from
Economics
and Business.
3 credit-hours must be a technical elective with a humanitarian emphasis or component. Assessment and acceptance of this course will be determined on a case-by-case basis by a Humanitarian Studies advisor, in consultation with the division offering the elective. Descriptions of some technical elective courses can be found at the technical electives link.
Humanitarian Engineering Requirements
A minor in Humanitarian Engineering requires all of the above requirements for the Humanitarian Studies and Technology Minor plus the following courses, which are required of all undergraduate students in the engineeering division (for a total of 27 credit-hours):
- 3 credit-hours of Multidisciplinary Engineering Labs (MEL) I & II:
MEL will be adding labs with Humanitarian Engineering enhancements.- 6 credit-hours of Senior Design:
Engineering students enrolled in the minor and ASI programs will receive preference in the assignment of humanitarian projects.
With permission from minor advisor, possible substitutions include measurement
and senior design courses from any ABET accredited engineering program at CSM.