SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
S U R F ' 99
at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
June 16 to August 12, 1999
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Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under the Research Experiences for Undergraduate Program Grant No. DMR-9820349 and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF’99) program at Georgia Tech was for undergraduate science and engineering students to experience hands-on participation in research in the
multi-disciplinary field of Materials Science and Engineering. The program focussed on demonstrating "Structure-Property Correlation Across Length Scales."
The SURF’99 program involved the participation of 14 students from 11 institutions around the country, and included 4 female and 5 minority students. The average GPA of this class was 3.49. The students
were selected from a total of 56 applicants. The overall average GPA of all applicants was 3.23. A total of 15 faculty from 5 different engineering programs at Georgia Tech were involved in mentoring the students.
Each student received a $4,000 stipend. The students worked on a one-to-one basis with a faculty member, while interacting with post-doctoral fellows and graduate students in the group. The students attended weekly pizza-lunch meetings during which the participating faculty presented an overview of materials related research activities in their group. Field trips to different on-campus laboratories and materials companies in the Atlanta area (including Delta Airlines) were arranged. The students made a final poster and submitted a one-page extended abstract paper on their research work. The program provided the students an opportunity to work on major research projects and an experience that will assist them in their decision towards graduate school.
The following list gives the names of students and titles of research projects that they worked on under the mentorship of faculty in the different Science and Engineering programs at Georgia Tech, during
the eight-week long SURF’99 program.
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