JHLP offers opportunities for all Gallogly and Mewbourne students. Attend an event, take a leadership course, or apply to become a Holmes Leadership Associate. Whatever you choose, JHLP will help you build professional skills that you can use today and throughout your career.
JHLP hosts open events for all students in the Gallogly and Mewbourne Colleges, including first-years. These events are advertised in the college newsletters and on Instagram, Engage, and digital screens in the engineering and geosciences buildings. Read your weekly college newsletter and follow us on Engage for the latest information.
Give your leadership skills a boost at the Engineering and Geosciences Student Leadership Retreat. This annual event includes interactive workshops and professional networking opportunities.
Learn from experienced and influential corporate, government, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial leaders through our Distinguished Speaker Series. Each event includes a public keynote address and roundtable discussions with students.
JHLP offers workshops throughout the school year. These events are designed to help you learn and use leadership and teamwork skills right away. Workshops are geared toward engineering and science majors, and all OU students are welcome.
Are you interested in a more intense leadership development experience? Apply to become a Holmes Leadership Associate! HLAs design a personal leadership development plan, attend monthly meetings, enjoy special events with invited speakers and corporate sponsors, and work with professional mentors throughout the year.
Both undergraduate and graduate students can participate as HLAs starting as early as the sophomore year. Participation begins in the fall semester, and applications open in March and August. Read your college's student newsletter and follow us on Engage and Instagram for announcements about JHLP information sessions and HLA application deadlines.
Build your leadership, business, and workforce skills by taking courses developed with engineers and scientists in mind. These courses are open to students of all majors in the Gallogly and Mewbourne colleges, and several can be used to satisfy major requirements. Enhance your career opportunities even more with the undergraduate Certificate in Engineering Leadership. The 15-credit-hour program is similar to a minor, and completion will be reflected on your transcript.
Students in the Gallogly and Mewbourne Colleges with at least junior standing may take ENGR G4013: Leadership & Management for Engineers. This course is G-listed, so graduate students may enroll with the permission of their advisory committee. Through this course, students will learn how to exercise leadership in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on collaborative leadership in technical organizations. Students will gain a better understanding of themselves and their personal and professional goals; how to create a shared vision; how to identify, develop, and leverage leadership strengths; and how to work as a team member in a multicultural organization. Throughout the semester, guest speakers will share their own leadership development experiences.
This 8-week course introduces entrepreneurship from the science and technology perspective. Enrollment in this graduate-level course is also open to undergraduate seniors by permission of the instructor. Students will start with ideas, analyze them, and see how they could grow into a business. The course will consist of lectures, weekly discussions with founders of science and technology-based businesses, presentations, and hands on activities.
Students accepted as interns with the Irani Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth can earn course credit through a special section of ENGR 4003. Applications for I-CCEW are accepted during the fall and spring semesters. For more information, visit the I-CCEW website.
Open to students in the Gallogly and Mewbourne Colleges, this 8-week course introduces engineering and science students to the basic business principles that they will encounter once they join the workforce. The aim is to expose students to the concepts and terminology of business to make them more effective immediately upon employment. This course will address leadership, change management, and organizational culture, business structure, capital and ethics.
Open to students in the Gallogly and Mewbourne Colleges, this 8-week course introduces students to workforce principles of finance and accounting. The course addresses accounting methods and the requirements to report financial performance in a consistent manner. More specifically, the course will address income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements and financial statement analysis. In addition, this course will address both the budgeting and forecasting process.
Open to students in the Gallogly and Mewbourne Colleges, this 8-week course covers macroeconomics of commodities including interactions between supply, demand and inventory and the related impact on price. Profit measures are introduced such as profit margins, break-even calculations and cost-volume profit analysis. This course also addresses microeconomics, investment metrics, and considerations of cost of capital.
This course is designed specifically for Holmes Leadership Associates and may be taken by other undergraduate students pursuing the Certificate in Engineering Leadership with permission of the instructor. All undergraduate HLAs take this course during the first spring of their partication.
Engineering Pathways mentors support engineering students during their first semester in the Gallogly College. As part of their training, each mentor is enrolled in ENGR 1401. Mentors are selected through a competitve application process. For more information, visit the Engineering Pathways Mentor Network.
Available to all undergraduate students in the Gallogly and Mewbourne colleges, the certificate curriculum allows you to design a leadership development experience that suits your interests. Two tracks are available: Standard and Sustainability. Courses include ENGR G4013, Leadership & Management for Engineers, and a broad selection of electives in humanities, social sciences, engineering and business. Many of the electives also satisfy general education requirements. To register, contact your Gallogly or Mewbourne academic advisor.
Each year the Gallogly College of Engineering presents the William J. Kennedy Leadership Award to outstanding student leaders. The cash award of $3500 recognizes two seniors (fourth-year or fifth-year) for exemplary leadership and service within the Gallogly College. The award was established in 2015 by OU alumnus William J. Kennedy to recognize excellence in leadership and to honor General Jerry Holmes.
William J. Kennedy earned a BS in mechanical engineering degree with distinction from OU and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He was named a ‘Distinguished Graduate’ of the college in 2000 and is the former president and CEO of three industrial product manufacturing companies.
Candidates are nominated by at least two of their fellow students, ensuring that this award recognizes leaders that other students want to follow. The nomination form opens in February.
The 2024 Kennedy Leadership Award winners were Natalie Norton, biomedical engineering, and Nick Khor, aerospace engineering.
Natalie Norton graduated in May 2024 with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and was honored as the Outstanding Senior for the Gallogly College of Engineering. A Holmes Leadership Associate, she twice served as chair of JHLP’s Student Advisory Board. Natalie’s exemplary leadership within the college and university includes work with the Women in Engineering Program and the Biomedical Engineering Society, and mentorship of first-year students through the engineering Dean’s Leadership Council and the President’s Leadership Class. Natalie will continue her studies at OU, pursuing a master’s degree in biomedical engineering.
Nick Khor graduated in May 2024 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. He revived two student organizations, the OU chapters of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Sigma Gamma Tau, and served as president of both. Nick organized an AIAA conference and helped facilitate the recent Boeing campus tours for engineering students. He has also held the position of Project Manager for the Design, Build, Fly Team for several years. Nick will continue his studies at OU, pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering.
