The Hennebach Program in the Humanities, supported by a major endowment from Ralph Hennebach (CSM class of 1941), sponsors a regular series of Visiting Professors and promotes the general enhancement of the humanities on campus.

In addition, given increased recognition of the importance of the humanities in engineering education, the Hennebach Program is exploring opportunities for meeting the needs of undergraduate students — especially engineering and applied science students who aspire to assuming leadership roles in the technical world. Such students would benefit especially from more focused study in the humanities that could appropriately complement technical degree curricula.

Visiting professors have included scholars in classics, environmental studies, ethics, history, literature, philosophy, and social theory as well as the interdisciplinary fields of environmental, policy, and science- technology-society studies.

Annually the Hennebach Program also sponsors a series of activities dedicated to enriching the lives of students and faculty through teaching and research, with visiting scholars contributing to a variety of activities from offering courses and giving lectures to conducting workshops and collaborating on projects.