Self-awareness
We strive to help students become more self-aware.
The McCormick Office of Personal Development (MOPD) supports the McCormick School of Engineering's focus on its students and provides resources, opportunities, and experiences for their personal growth.
Through this environment, MOPD helps transform students into whole-brain™ engineers, who engage the world with both “left-brain” analytical thinking and “right-brain” creative thinking to best understand, frame, and solve complex problems.
We strive to help students become more self-aware.
We help empower students to take ownership and responsibility for their learning.
We guide students to obtain knowledge about the opportunities available to them, and help them understand how those opportunities connect to their personal goals.
We help students become highly resilient and guide them to develop the scope of vision to take on complex problems.
MOPD helps students develop the skills to be lifelong adaptive learners by fostering the five core competencies:
Leveraging intellectual curiosity and the confidence to question as you create your personal, professional, and civic identity.
Identifying tensions among competing resources and desired outcomes, and applying resources to accomplish goals.
Loyalty to a consistent level of quality and integrity based on internal motivations, rather than external demands or rewards.
Persevering in the face of challenging situations.
Confidently applying knowledge of yourself and your abilities in the service of your values and goals.
Learn with us
We offer courses to help engineering students achieve the best possible experience at McCormick by learning skills to help them better connect to themselves and with each other.