Prospective Graduate Students
Prospective Graduate Students
Prospective Graduate Students
Research: Mind-expanding
Opportunities abound for undergraduates to conduct and experience research in engineering, the applied sciences, and related fields at Harvard.
- Listen to dozens of lectures on dozens of topics by the world’s top researchers and those who employ them. (1)
- Get your hands on state-of-the-art equipment in the newly constructed undergraduate bioengineering lab; scope out the small world of nanotechnology by building your own scanning tunneling microscope; design microchips for use in sensor networks. (2)
- Participate in faculty labs; take part in term-time or summer research program (3) work and live in one of the “smartest” cities in the U.S. (4)
If you desire all the details or have specific aims (e.g., “I’d really like to work on quantum-cascade lasers, program a smarter computer agent, or model the atmosphere”) or want to know what our faculty members have been up to, visit our research pages.
And there’s more to come. Harvard is continuing to enhance its programs in science and engineering through advanced facilities such as the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering and the Northwest Building, dedicated to interdisciplinary science and engineering.
Bugs, Muscular Tissue, and Soccer Bots
What students do in (and outside) the lab ...
Bugs |
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Undergraduates can work in Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Rob Wood’s lab on the design, construction of robotic bugs.Wood is working to perfect tiny insect-like flying vehicles weighing in at one gram or less. |
Muscle Motion |
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In an innovative marriage of living cells and a synthetic substrate, bioengineers found that a rubberlike, elastic film coated with a single layer of cardiac muscle cells can semi-autonomously engage in lifelike gripping, pumping, walking, and swimming. |
Soccer Bots |
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RoboCup, an international robotic football competition, offers university-based teams the chance to build a team of autonomous robots and compete in head-to-head matches. The Harvard team also opted for intellectual collaboration rather than competition: it joined forces with undergrads from MIT. |
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Footnotes
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(1) Some past luminaries have included Bill Gates COL ’77 and India’s Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science & Technology and Ocean Development. |
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(2) William Adams ’06 created a microelectrode array: a 14mm x 14mm “data collector” for cardiac electrophysiological experimentation, built entirely within the Center for Nanoscale Systems clean room. |
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(3) Harvard offers the Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE), a 10-week 2 residential community, and the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), summer opportunities focused on materials research and nanoscale science and engineering. |
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(4) That’s what Boston Magazine says. Lots of universities, lots of people with Ph.D.s, lots of high-tech companies. |