Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Laptops are Predictable
Science and Engineering undergraduates can get paid thousands of dollars to do summer research at other schools or even in exotic foreign universities. It builds their resume and they learn a lot. So few students are motivated enough to apply for these programs. Some of these programs have a nanotechnology theme. I wonder if they are the more popular programs? Perhaps this will say a lot about what to expect from the future.
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Do you have any stats about the numbers of people applying and what percentage of positions available go unfilled?
ReplyDeleteI do not have any stats about the percentage of students that apply or the number of unfilled positions. I think that it says something about the undergraduate programs here that those statistics are not gathered or published.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the programs in engineering are are popular and competetive. The programs in the fundamental sciences are often overlooked. Doctor Laverman was the only person aggressively pushing undergraduate resarch in my department till I made a website and started evangelizing in lecture and lab classes.
I would like to be given the go ahead and support from my department to begin collecting undergraduate research statistics on all of the students.