CBE Undergraduate Research

Many CBE undergraduate students gain valuable research experience working with CBE faculty in their laboratories or research groups. You may contact faculty members directly to inquire if positions are available in their groups or if they would be willing to direct independent study or research. Most faculty require undergraduate students to have completed at least a year of foundational coursework to be considered for these opportunities. Students can also take advantage of many external opportunities to gain research experience, such as those listed below.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities List – External

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Programs and Fellowship Opportunities:

• University of Michigan Fellowships in Quantitative Majors, Biological Sciences REU, SURP program for underrepresented group and economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
• College of Polymer Science & Polymer Engineering REU Program at the University of Akron
• Tufts University Soft Material Robotics IGERT Fellowships
• NSF REU in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Kentucky)

• Northwestern University’s Materials Research Science & Engineering Center Summer Program
• RISE Summer Internship Program (Germany)
• Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering(ViNSE) REU
• Summer Research at Cornell University: The Cornell Center for Materials Research REU
• International Summer Research (iSURE) Program
• National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Research Experience for Undergraduates (NNIN REU)
• University of New Mexico Nanoscience and Microsystems Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSMS REU)
• REU in Experimental and Computational Materials Research at Univ. of Alabama Birmingham
• Engineering Research Center on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health & the Environment (MIRTHE)
• The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) NSF/REU Program
• NNIN REU Site Descriptions 2013 (With your application you will be required to choose FIVE of the 14 NNIN sites in which you are primarily interested)
• Washington Internship for Students in Engineering
• Biological Materials and Processes Research Experience for Undergraduates (BioMaP REU) at Iowa State University
• REU in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at The University of Akron
• Pathways to Science (research at various universities)
• REU in Physics and Astrophysics at University of Minnesota
• REU at the LearnLab at Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
• Summary of Undergraduate Research Opportunities for Chemical Engineering Students During the Summer of 2013. Collected by Prof. Michael B. Cutlip, University of Connecticut (not responsible for errors or omissions)