Student profiles

These undergraduate students, like many others in the College of Engineering, participated in research. By working alongside Carnegie Mellon faculty, they gained important skills, learned teamwork, deepened their understanding of concepts they could apply to their classwork, discovered both the value and rigor of academic research, refined their career goals, and gained valuable experience that will enhance their career aspirations.

May 5

Energy & Environment

Reducing air pollution boosts undergrad’s success

Not every undergraduate research stint leads to a major scientific journal publication, an internship with a federal agency, and a prestigious scholarship, but it did for Lauren Janicke.

Women’s basketball player makes time in the off-season to take on research.

Research in the off-season

Mar 7

News & Events

Lab work makes for easier class work

Terry Feng says his research experience gave him an edge in working with the tools and equipment he used in his materials science courses—particularly in using the scanning electron microscope to study material properties of the gallium oxide films he grew in Lisa Porter’s lab.

Engineering student videos