Hands-on, applied learning inside and outside of the classroom is the bedrock of the undergraduate engineering experience at Marquette. Alongside students’ practical curriculum are a variety of co-curricular experiences cultivated to prepare engineering leaders to Be The Difference.
In addition to co-ops, internships and other industry experiences, many students pursue undergraduate research opportunities to expand their skills and further discover their potential. These research experiences are offered by faculty mentors and allow students to contribute to real projects while learning technical skills, collaborating with experts in the field and exploring how their work can serve communities.
The experiences occur year-round, and many students participate in the summer months as part of the Opus College of Engineering’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow program. Each fall, the Marquette engineering community gathers to celebrate this work at the Opus College’s Undergraduate Research Day.
This year, students were challenged to further condense a technical poster’s worth of their findings and outcomes into a single prompt on a whiteboard: “my research serves ____.”
Explore the photo gallery below to see a few of the responses shared by undergraduate researchers in the Opus College of Engineering, plus a few moments of students communicating their work to a diverse audience of faculty, staff, family and friends.
