Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

An Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program provides funding and/or credit to

undergraduate

students who volunteer for faculty-mentored research projects pertaining to all academic disciplines.

Participating universities

Universities involved include the

California State University, Long Beach, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Michigan, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the RWTH Aachen University, Imperial College London, the University of New Hampshire, and the Nanyang Technological University

.

Founding and purpose

The MIT program was founded in 1969, and the program at the

RWTH Aachen University started the first international UROP program for students from the United States and Canada in Germany. The University of Sussex

Calls

Students can apply for funding by submitting a proposal during "Calls for Proposals", which occur throughout the school year.

The Calls are announced on the school web sites and distributed to faculty members and the undergraduate counseling offices. Students have approximately one month from the announcement to submit their proposals. All undergraduate students from all disciplines and majors who are participating in a research project with a faculty advisor (usually a full-time professor at the university) eligible to respond to the current Call for Proposals if they are in good academic standing with the school.

Proposals

Proposals are prepared by the student applicant and jointly submitted by the student and the faculty advisors. UROP funds a variety of projects with grants depending upon the merits of the project. At

UC Irvine students may also apply for a prestigious summer fellowship

, by which they may be awarded as much as $3,000 per project, which is meant to reward them for their time and efforts. Higher amounts may be awarded for group projects. The UROP Faculty Advisory Board reviews proposals and decides whether the project merits funding. The UROP Faculty Advisory Board also makes the funding recommendations.

Completion and submission

Upon completion of the year-long research project, students are expected to present their findings at the school's research symposium.

MIT

journals.

References

^ "UROP Symposium features student research projects". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2018-03-09.

External links

[1] "UROP Symposium features student research projects". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2018-03-09.