Undergraduate Research Opportunities?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>I'm applying to Cockrell school of engineering for Electrical Engineering and I was wondering how easy/hard it is to get a research opportunity during the freshman year.</p>

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<li><p>Is it possible to get a research position at all during freshman year?</p></li>
<li><p>Is it simply a matter of approaching/emailing professor X about his research project that you would be interested in?</p></li>
<li><p>If getting a research position is possible freshman year, is any extensive prior knowledge required? (I don't think incoming freshmen would know that much haha)
if yes, then how do you get this knowledge??? self study? or courses?</p></li>
<li><p>If getting a research position is not possible (or very likely) in freshmen year, what year can a student stand a reasonable chance of getting one?</p></li>
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<p>Please let me know!! thanks in advance</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>Can’t speak to ECE, but my freshman son is an ASE major. He is not involved in lab-based research, but is a member of 2 student project teams. He went to all the club and project info meetings, made connections with the team leaders and was invited to join. Both projects receive outside funding, so in addition to having hands-on experiences and informal mentoring, he is making connections with companies for future internship and coop opportunities. You might want to check out the engineering student organizations: [UT</a> ECE | Student Organizations](<a href=“http://www.ece.utexas.edu/undergrad/student_org.html]UT”>http://www.ece.utexas.edu/undergrad/student_org.html) and [Engineering</a> Student Organizations](<a href=“Custom 404 page”>Custom 404 page)</p>