IBE荣誉计划直接针对新的工业和专业市场不断变化的现实：快速的技术创新，扩散和过时，新标准的出现，较短的产品生命周期以及由于全球竞争加剧而导致的利润率下降以及以结果为中心的发展以及新产品和服务的交付。现在，组织寻求基于合作的新竞争形式，通常会聚集物质和智力资源，以加快可盈利的产品和服务的设计，开发，制造和交付。市场上的这些变化需要新的功能，而这些功能只能与技术和商业相结合。我们的理念基于两个关键概念：首先，我们认为建立并提供具有挑战性和严格性的计划至关重要，该计划为毕业生提供了使他们将来成功的技能和经验。
The IBE Honors Program directly addresses the constantly changing realities of the new industrial and professional marketplace: rapid technological innovation, diffusion and obsolescence, emergence of new standards, short product life-cycles and decaying margins due to increased global competition, and outcome-focused development and delivery of new products and services. Organizations now seek new forms of competition based on cooperation, often pooling physical and intellectual resources to speed up the profitable design, development, manufacturing and delivery of products and services. These changes in the marketplace demand new capabilities, which can only come with the combination of technology and commerce. Our philosophy is based on two key concepts: First we believe it is crucial to build and offer a challenging and rigorous program that provides graduates with skills and experiences that will make them successful in the future. This in turn leads to the development of a strong reputation among potential students, high school counselors, and employers. It takes time to build a program in this manner and to develop a strong reputation. Ultimately however this approach has led to a successful, desirable, and sustainable program. The second key principle is continuous improvement applied to our IBE specific courses and other aspects of the program. We believe that there is always room for improvement.