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Nanotechnology Summer Undergraduate Research Intern Program: Comprehensive Introduction to Life as a Researcher

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

M.R. Melloch  and
J. Lax
M.R. Melloch
Affiliation:
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907, U.S.A.
J. Lax
Affiliation:
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We have implemented a summer undergraduate research intern (SURI) program, the purpose of which is to give the undergraduates as real a picture as possible of what it is like to be a research scientist and what will be encountered in graduate school. Our first SURI class, the summer of 2003, consisted of a diverse group of 18 students from 9 different universities. Each student joined an ongoing cross-disciplinary research project team comprised of faculty and graduate students who have been working on research projects throughout the year. Coordinated with the students' research project was a technical writing/presentation course. The SURIs also participated in professional development activities, short courses, and a molecular conduction workshop. The culmination of the students' research and the technical writing/presentation course was a one-day conference at the end of their program in which all the SURIs presented the results of their summer research.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 827: Symposium BB – Educating Tomorrow's materials Scientists & Engineers , 2004 , BB3.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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