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:

• NSF REU in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Kentucky)

• NSF REU in Novel Advanced Materials & Processing with Applications in Biomedical, Electrical & Chemical Engineering (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
• Northwestern University's Materials Research Science & Engineering Center Summer Program
• REU in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering at Washington University, St Louis
• RISE Summer Internship Program (Germany)
• Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering(ViNSE) REU
• The Kansas State University Center for Sustainable Energy REU
• Summer Research at Cornell University: The Cornell Center for Materials Research REU
• Harvard Summer Research Experiences in Materials Science & Engineering
• VaNTH BER REU (Bioengineering related) (Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Texas at Austin, and the Harvard-MIT HST program)
• Rice NSF REU Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Cellular Engineering
• R-I-T REU Physical Sciences
• The Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE) REU at the University at Buffalo
• The Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI) Summer Internship @ University of Delaware
• International Summer Research (iSURE) Program
• Penn Genome Frontiers Institute Summer Internship Opportunity
• 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
• Bioprocess Engineering for Sustainability 2013 REU (Virginia Tech)
• Biological Materials and Processes Research Experience for Undergraduates (BioMaP REU) at Iowa State University
• 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)