<p>I was wondering if anyone has graduated from an honors program in engineering. What are the advantages when applying to competitive graduate schools? What are the disadvantages if any?</p>
<p>For all honors programs (or most of them), you take honors courses for your first two years. There are no honors engineering courses, the honors program is a lower division type thing. So once you get into the engineering school, you are with everyone else. There may be exceptions, but I believe for the most part, this is true (at least it is for where I go).</p>
<p>same where i go, the only engineering classes that have honors sections are some lower level EE classes.</p>
<p>at university of maryland-cp, there is an honors program, but almost every department also has their own honors thing. for electrical engineering majors, we got to take at least 4 honors versions of 300 level classes out of 8, get at least a 3.0 avg in them, and do research.</p>
<p>the EE honors program here involves taking some grad courses jr and sr year as well as doing some research. i would think that would be promising for students looking to go to grad school.</p>