Georgia Tech encourages undergraduate students to participate in quality and substantive research. There are several options in the Woodruff School for both mechanical engineering and nuclear and radiological engineering majors to do a Special Problem Course or an Undergraduate Research Course. Students can do a non-research special problem course. This is usually a design course and may be combined with the capstone design class for a two-semester design problem. There are undergraduate research courses; an ME or NRE elective for juniors and seniors; and research internships, where students are paid for working on a project either part time or full time. Each course requires a written final report and that the student work with a faculty member. Funding opportunities are available through the President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA).

For more information on undergraduate research at Georgia Tech, go to: www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu and for specific ME/NRE program information, go to: www.me.gatech.edu.