Active Learning and Undergraduate Engagement

Apply What You Learn

While classroom instruction provides the primary means of knowledge development for students who are on their way to becoming professional engineers, opportunities to apply learned knowledge to challenging research problems exist in the Whitacre College of Engineering's faculty research laboratories.

Any student with an eye toward graduate studies in the sciences and engineering can become involved in laboratory research as early as the spring of his or her freshman year. Many departments discuss possible undergraduate research experiences at student society meetings, undergraduate seminars, and in some of the first freshman engineering courses.

Students are encouraged to approach faculty members, and even graduate students, in topics that are of interest to them.