Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
What is Undergraduate Research?
- One-on-one work with faculty
- Searching for new knowledge in a field
- Discovering new phenomena, methods, and techniques
- Application of what is learned in lecture
Why do Undergraduate Research?
- Develop a better understanding of “hot” topics and areas of concern
- Experience in your field of study (or another)
- Want to know more than what’s provided in traditional coursework
- Hands-on Experience
- Preparation for graduate or professional school
- Further work with internationally known faculty members or as part of a research team
- New communication skills
- Clarify your career goals
How is the learning different than classroom learning?
- You help to formulate the question to answer
- You help to design the methods to answer the questions
- You interpret the results of your tests or discoveries
- You learn to communicate the new results to others in your field
The President of Georgia Tech strongly believes in the value of undergraduates and invites them to experience the excitement of new discovery through research. He established the President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) to encourage and supplement undergraduate research opportunities for all majors. Currently over 200 students are awarded up to $1500 in research salary to work with a faculty mentor or up to $1000 funding to present work at a professional conference.
Research is not always in laboratory and scientific settings. New discoveries in literature, social sciences, architecture, and business are also exciting avenues of learning. Students can participate in undergraduate research for course credit or pay, part time or full time. Opportunities are available institute-wide or within specific colleges and schools. Interdisciplinary opportunities are also available. Find a faculty member whose interests match yours and start doing research today!
For additional information, please contact the UROP office at UROP@gatech.edu
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Sub-communities within this community
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Undergraduate Research Symposia [49]
Showcases to recognize ongoing undergraduate research projects at Georgia Tech
Collections in this community
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SABUR Presentation Series [1]
The Student Advisory Board for Undergraduate Research (SABUR) plans activities and events related to undergraduate research. -
The Tower [38]
The Undergraduate Research Journal of the Georgia Institute of Technology -
Undergraduate Research News [19]
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Undergraduate Research Option Theses [435]
To support the growth of both the quality and quantity of undergraduate research on campus, Georgia Tech offers a Research Option for undergraduates. The research option is intended to indicate that the student has had a ... -
UROP, Fellowships, and Pre-Health Advising Events [2]
Events and showcases held by units of the Office of Undergraduate Studies
Recent Submissions
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Investigation of immunomodulation on myofibroblast activation: Implications for fibrotic development in wound healing
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Finding Kernels in Non-Linear Data-Driven CHC Solving
Program verification has seen a lot of progress, but its still unable to automatically find proofs for industry programs. This paper builds on data-driven approaches from previous work [11] to provide a more robust automatic ... -
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Chronic Limb Ischemic Myopathy
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Development of a Self-Powered Hydraulic Sensing Node
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MRI-Based Investigation into the Effects of Simulated Microgravity on Cerebrospinal Fluid and Vascular Flow
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts have reported decrease in visual acuity due to Microgravity Ocular Syndrome (MOS) after returning from long duration space missions. It is hypothesized that ... -
Towards Passive Unlabeled Cell Sorting in a Microfluidic Flow Chamber
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Scalable, Automatic Malware Analysis
In the realm of this computing age, malware is becoming steadily more prevalent. With the amount of malware samples taken from the wild increasing, malware analysis is becoming increasingly necessary. However, the necessary ... -
Interactive Analysis of Graph and Time-Series Data: Enabling Technologies and Systems
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Real-time State Estimation for Aggressive Driving Autonomous Ground Vehicles
State estimation is an integral part of many robotic systems. It is particularly important in the realm of high performance ground vehicles where systems must be real-time, robust, and accurate. This project aims to tackle ... -
A blockchain-inspired design for a modern academic system
When reminded of blockchains, the public’s attention tends to turn to finance because of the recent growth of Bitcoin and its impact on the economy; however, these cryptographic data structures also have value in several ... -
3D Reconstruction of Live Chickens in Poultry Houses
Poultry houses require daily monitoring to ensure animal health and proper house operation. One task involves observing the average growth rate of the house to adjust the daily feed. In addition to being labor intensive ... -
Generation and Stability of Charged Toroidal Droplets
In this project, we have determined the quantitative parameters governing the transition phases of charged toroidal droplets. An instability reminiscent of the Saffman-Taylor Instability (viscous fingers) has been observed ... -
Predicting Protein-Protein Interaction via Convolutional Adaptive Dot Product
We propose a deep-learning method for predicting protein-protein interaction (PPI) via an adaptive dot product in combination with dilated convolutions. Protein-protein interac- tion is a crucial biological process. Being ... -
Analysis of Deviant Opioid Addiction Treatment Communities on Reddit
As the opioid epidemic in the US continues, many addicts turn to clinically unverified, non-mainstream, deviant recovery methods to ameliorate the symptoms of withdrawal. In this study, we analyze discussion on the social ... -
Mechanically Activated Currents in Mechanosensitive Cells
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of ultrasonic pressure on the mechanosensitive channel activity in the N2A cell line. Prior research has indicated that certain ion channels in the cellular membrane of ... -
Inflammatory CD8+ T Cells Are Reduced by Applying FTY-720 to Activate Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Signaling
Biomaterials generally induce a natural inflammatory response which can be altered by adding molecules to influence immune cell recruitment. Sphingosine-1-phosphatase (S1P) is a biological signaling lipid which performs ... -
Deception Detection Tests Along with Brain-Computer Interface
Primarily polygraphs (AKA lie detectors) are being used for deception detection tests (DDT) in terms of knowing hidden and crucial information associated with crime or an incidence. Often, other factors, i.e., nervousness, ... -
Podium: Ranking Data Using Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics
Ranking points of data is utilized in everyday decision making, and multi-attribute ranking systems are a tool used to facilitate the ranking process and help make these data-driven decisions. These systems ask users to ... -
Load Dependent Fatigue Crack Initiation in High Purity Al
Fatigue crack initiation sites and mechanisms in metals and alloys have long been investigated, since metal components are often subjected to cyclic loading, and fatigue cracking is one of the major causes of failure. ... -
Earth's oxygen and phosphorus cycle and the evolution of animal life
The purpose of this study is to reconstruct an environmental context for the emergence and expansion of early animal life during the Middle Proterozoic (∼1.8–0.8 billion years ago). Specifically, we examined the spatially ...
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