This Spring segment of our 0-credit program provides a comprehensive professional and technical development experience. Students complete alternating soft-skills and technical foundation workshops in the fall, a winter mid-year check-in and leadership retreat, and a spring technical project with a public presentation. Mentorship, advising, and community engagement run throughout the academic year, with an optional summer research continuation.

The first QUEST course introduces foundational principles of design and quality, emphasizing their impact on product development and customer satisfaction. Working in multidisciplinary teams, students will explore design thinking, project management techniques, and quality tools, applying these frameworks to real-world product redesigns and innovations.

The QUEST data analysis course takes a human-centered approach to data analysis and focuses on teaching students how to frame the core problem, choose the right data, and uncover deep insights from data to build an understanding of people and expose opportunities for innovation. Students will use visualization and statistical techniques to explore data, generate insights, and share the human stories behind the data to move people to action.

QUEST mentors serve a valuable purpose in the program as they coach new cohorts of students progressing through BMGT/ENED290H. Mentors will learn and practice essential team-building and facilitation skills, including effective communication, conflict management, strengths-based leadership, and lesson planning. They will use these leadership skills to inspire their 290H teams and improve team performance.

The capstone course for the QUEST Honors Program provides students with an opportunity to learn in multidisciplinary teams of business, engineering, and science students in a real-world setting. Companies engage teams of QUEST students with real organizational challenges and dedicate resources to help students address these problems. Student teams must enhance their skills in quality management, process improvement, and systems design and will apply these to add value to a client. In the process, students will improve their teamwork skills.