<p>Anybody know anything insightful outside of what the school's site provides? How helpful is the honors program to an engineering student (specifically civil engineering)? How challenging? What kind of grad school or employment benefits? Any personal experiences?</p>
<p>I don't know but I think its a good idea to be in it if you get the chance. I also want to go into engineering and feel that in many respects I am better off going to Virginia Tech, where I feel I can maintain better grades, and be in the honors program as opposed to going to schools like Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, UI-Urbana-Champaign, etc. I think the honors program looks good on graduate school applications.</p>