Undergraduate Research Experience
Earn hourly wages while engaging in research with college faculty and graduate students.
Conduct research in an area related to your interests with faculty, graduate students, and industry or government partners.Ìý
"This is what a researcher looks like"
Dr. Mark Hernandez Aerobiology Lab
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Reign Pagaran
Mechanical Engineering
Supervising professor:ÌýMichael Rivera
Liam Masias
Computer Science and Computer and Electrical Engineering
Supervising professor: Torin Clark
My hobbies include reading for pleasure and learning, playing video games competitively (such as FPS, Fighting, and Strategy) and single-player games, and exploring the world with my friends. I enjoy having the balance of immersing myself in the worlds of others' imagination and getting involved with mine.
My research project is focused on creating an optimal team with a human and autonomous system for deep space missions. We do this by measuring three cognitive states, Trust, Mental Workload, and Situational Awareness, to monitor the human and the autonomous system adjusts itself to work well with the human's current state. We are also trying to understand the relationship with a human-autonomy team to create the most efficient, enjoyable, and independent dynamic for the human operator, especially when our space missions venture further into deep space and missions become more dangerous and communication has longer latency times with mission control.
My role is helping debug code, assisting with data collection, and having a literature review to assist in encouraging more approaches to understanding the relationship between the human and the intelligent system. I have been able to create a hypothesis that has not been looked into deeply in the subject; "How would the human's trust be affected if we are to tell the human that their monitored data is going into the autonomous system versus withholding that information from the human.
Abby Adams
Chemical Engineering
Supervising professor:ÌýJohn Crimaldi
Justin Pedersen
Aerospace Engineering
Supervising professor: Penina Axelrad
Jodie Truong
Chemcial Engineering
Supervising professor: Robert Davis
CU Engineering Undergraduate Research OpportunitiesÌýgivesÌýstudents first-hand experienceÌýto learn from seasoned professionals in the field. These outstanding research mentors have helped students grow theirÌýprofessional networks and sharedÌýinsider knowledge and wisdom about research.