The Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Honors Program at the University of Maryland unites undergraduate students with business, engineering, and science backgrounds in order to promote a multidisciplinary, hands-on, learning experience. QUEST's curriculum focuses on quality management, process improvement, and system design. This curriculum is delivered in the form of three required courses and two elective courses. The first program course introduces the concepts of innovation, design, and quality. Multidisciplinary teams work on a series of three projects, challenging them to design products and processes to improve the University of Maryland and the lives of their fellow students. The next required course involves a semester-long systems project where students work in teams to identify and solve problems about which they are passionately invested. Goals of past projects include improving access to healthy foods, providing more opportunities to individuals experiencing homelessness, and improving safety for pilots of light and midsize aircraft. In the final of the three required courses, a consulting project course, QUEST students collaborate on multidisciplinary teams to solve organizational challenges for corporate clients over the span of a semester.
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