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Research Opportunities
There are several ways undergraduates can participate in research projects.
First Year Research in Engineering Experience
The First Year Research in Engineering Experience (FYREE) program provides first-year undergraduates and prospective engineering majors with early hands-on experience and mentoring within engineering.
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Women in Science Project
Dartmouth's Women in Science (WISP) Research Internship Program matches undergraduate women with paid, part-time research internships in STEM. Open to first-year and sophomore women, WISP provides early hands-on, research experience and mentoring from a Dartmouth faculty or a research scientist.
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Honors Program
Engineering majors with a grade point average of 3.33 in their major, with an overall GPA of 3.0, are eligible for admission to the Honors Program in Engineering Sciences. Honors students have the opportunity to complete independent research under the guidance of engineering faculty.
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Research Project Assistant
Dartmouth faculty hire undergraduate assistants in their labs to work alongside and support graduate and post-doctoral researchers with active research. Students have had opportunities to contribute to ongoing research on sustainable energy solutions in the arctic, biofuels, or wearable medical technologies.
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Dartmouth undergraduate students talk about their research on fusion energy, HIV/AIDS, space weather prediction, and more.
Entrepreneurship Opportunities
Intern at one of the many companies founded by engineering faculty.
"We have interns working side-by-side with company scientists. The students want to do things in the lab, and the beauty is that they get to see the big picture and contribute."
—Professor Tillman Gerngross, Co-founder of GlycoFi (now part of Merck, Inc.), Adimab, Arsanis, Avitide, Alector, and Adagio.
Work in a Faculty Startup
Half of our tenure-track faculty are entrepreneurs, and many engineering students begin their careers by working alongside their professors.
"Undergraduate assistants have been a key asset in my efforts to assemble a team of highly intelligent, creative, and productive researchers. Undergraduate students have been deeply involved in several of the lab’s ongoing projects, including some that we hope to publish in the near future. As a result, I have found that training good undergraduate assistants is a win-win situation: They have the opportunity to work in a cutting edge biotechnology laboratory and develop a set of research skills that will jump-start their future career plans, while I gain a highly motivated assistant who contributes to, and in some cases independently drives, our short term and long term research goals."