Have you done research as an undergrad?

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>Last year son’s research work was to port a program using a proprietary driver to something that could be run by anyone over the web. There wasn’t much guidance and specs changed weekly. This year he’s doing more interesting work with mathematics and statistics but it is basically running experiments on different ideas that his adviser has. He communicates a mathematical model, my son runs it, and creates a bunch of graphs with the results and sends them back. It involves programming and generating charts back and forth.</p>

<p>I don’t know if you consider that the same as washing test tubes but it does require going out to learn a bunch of tools on your own, deciding on the tools to use and enough of a math background to code up the models.</p>

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<p>Hum, BC, my son did something similar last summer as an enrichment program. He may be able to do this again next summer, since he’ll attend the same university for classes. He already knows the professors, and hopefully, he can help out again, even for free. Maybe that will be viewed favorably as an engineering internship. Thanks for the post!</p>