Undergraduate Student Research

Imagine being involved in leading-edge research into affordable solar energy, or the development of new materials that fight bacteria. You can enhance your educational experience by getting involved with high-level research projects being conducted by your own professors.

As an engineering student at a research-intensive university like the U of A, you are at a distinct advantage. Many engineering professors are not only dedicated teachers, but also world-leading researchers. As an undergraduate engineering student you have opportunities to take on research-based courses for credit. You'll be required to work with a professor on a project, and may have to submit a report for a final grade.  

Getting hands-on experience conducting research means drawing on all of your coursework and putting it into practice in a research setting. Conducting research means applying the lessons you’ve learned in the classroom and going beyond what is in your textbooks. It means being part of new discoveries.

Undergraduate Research Stories

  1. Applying structural engineering to medicine

    Mat Reynolds wanted a different kind of challenge in engineering—and he found it

  2. Undergraduate research opens doors for students

    62 engineering students take part in nationally funded program

  3. Reinvigorated by biomedical research

    Without the Dean’s Research Award, the Faculty might have lost one of its most promising undergrads.

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