Student Research Opportunities

Research Opportunities

Graduate National Undergraduate Faculty Laboratories (Undergraduate)


By Department

Biological Systems Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering Durham School of Architectural Engineering & Construction Electrical & Computer Engineering Mechanical & Materials Engineering School of Computing Engineering Research & Innovation


Graduate Research Opportunities
GRA - Computational Biomechanics and Microfluidics
Contact: Nitesh Nama
GRA Opportunity on Wireless Broadband in Terrestrial and Satellite Networks for Smart Livestock Management
Contact: Shuai Nie
Quantum Sensing and Quantum Device Engineering
Contact: Abdelghani Laraoui
Complex Materials Optics Network (CMON)
Contact: Ufuk Kilic
GRA Opportunity on Reconfigurable and Adaptive Computer Architectures
Funded Research Assistantship: Groundwater-Surface Water Hydrology and Water Quality
Contact: Aaron Mittelstet
GRA Opportunity on Wireless Communications in Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Bands for 5G and Beyond
GRA Opportunity on Power Electronics x Machine Learning for Future Energy Infrastructure
Contact: Jun Wang
Nama Lab (Graduate Research Assistant)
Contact: Nitesh Nama
Graduate Research Assistant Opportunities in High Throughput Plant Phenotyping
Contact: Yeyin Shi • Yufeng Ge
Smart Materials and Robotics Laboratory Assistant
Contact: Eric Markvicka
Concrete Materials: Research Assistants
Contact: Jiong Hu
Structural Engineering, Natural Hazards & Remote Sensing
Contact: Christine Wittich
Nebraska Nanoscale Energy Engineering Lab
Contact: Mohammad Ghashami
Operational Simulation-Optimization and Virtual Prototyping Research Assistants
Contact: Jennifer Lather
Quantum Optics and Device Engineering (Graduate)
Contact: Abdelghani Laraoui
Traumatic Brain Injury (Graduate Research Assistant)
Contact: Forrest Kievit
Dynamical Systems Lab (Undergraduate & Graduate Students)
Contact: Piyush Grover
Precision Management of Animals (PhD)
Contact: Tami Brown-Brandl
Precision Management of Animals (Master's)
Contact: Tami Brown-Brandl
One Part-time Research Assistants: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science with C++ Programming Skills
Contact: Kyungki Kim


National Research Opportunities
Caltech's Amgen Scholars Program
MIT Summer Research Program – General (MSRP)
2021 Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School
U.S. Department of Transportation Summer Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG)
Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program
Caltech WAVE Fellows Undergraduate Research Program
National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research (SIP)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (funding)
U.S. Department of Defense Summer Internships
U.S. Department of Energy Student Programs and Internships
NSF REU Sites outside of UNL
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)


Undergraduate Research Program Opportunities

Fall Nebraska Discipline-Based Engineering Education Research Program
Contact: Grace Panther
Nebraska Center for Energy Science Summer 2021 internship


Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Faculty Laboratories
Circular Beef Supply Chains: Research Assistant
Contact: Jason Hawkins
Complex Materials Optics Network (CMON)
Contact: Ufuk Kilic
Fall Nebraska Discipline-Based Engineering Education Research Program
Contact: Grace Panther
Midwest Roadside Safety Facility: Engineering Internship
Contact: Cody Stolle
Smart Materials and Robotics Laboratory Assistant
Contact: Eric Markvicka
Concrete Materials: Research Assistants
Contact: Jiong Hu
Structural Engineering, Natural Hazards & Remote Sensing
Contact: Christine Wittich
Nebraska Nanoscale Energy Engineering Lab
Contact: Mohammad Ghashami
Virtual Prototyping and Modeling Undergraduate Research Assistants
Contact: Jennifer Lather
Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure
Contact: Richard L. Wood
Quantum Optics and Device Engineering (Undergraduate)
Contact: Abdelghani Laraoui
Undergraduate Research Assistant/Intern
Dynamical Systems Lab (Undergraduate & Graduate Students)
Contact: Piyush Grover
One Part-time Research Assistants: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science with C++ Programming Skills
Contact: Kyungki Kim
Engineering UCARE openings


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