Undergraduate Advising

Undergraduate Research: Facts and Opportunities:

Faculty statements on undergraduate research opportunities

The statements by ECE Faculty listed in the link above have been pulled from faculty web pages. Students may find out more about the research interests and activities of ECE professors by visiting their personal web sites. Some professors have not added undergraduate research statements to their web pages, but that does not necessarily mean that they are not interested in supporting undergraduate research. Students should not hesitate to contact ECE professors about research and discuss with them any research ideas that they may have. A student-driven initiative called PURE can also help the students with finding undergraduate research.

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You can earn technical credit hours by conducting undergraduate research. ECE 297 is a 1 hr research course open to freshmen and sophomores. It can be taken twice for a maximum credit of 2 hrs which will count as ECE technical electives. You are also allowed to collect 6 additional hours of research related credit to count for your ECE technical electives. These can originate from individual study courses such as ECE 396, ECE 397, ECE 497, ECE 499. Their equivalents in other departments can count as technical elective hours.

ECE 497/499 combination is taken for Senior Research Project culminating in a Senior Thesis. Students taking ECE 497/499 are also required to make oral presentation of their research findings in the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Credit for ECE 445 (required Senior Design course in EE program) will be awarded to students with Senior Thesis projects that involve hardware design or testing.