Undergraduates may participate for credit, receive stipends, or work as volunteers. All projects must be worthy of regular MIT academic credit, regardless which mode is chosen. UROP projects, which students can begin any time during the term and continue full time in the summer, frequently last up to a year or more. Below is a listing of UROP projects in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for Spring Term 2001.
Funding is available for a significant number of freshmen UROPs.
If you do not find any projects to your liking, you may propose your own project. New projects will be posted as available. These UROPs may be done for academic credit as well. For a listing of CEE faculty and research areas, see the Faculty and Research pages on this web site. The mechanical testing of calcium leached concrete shows important decreases in strength that are important for industrial applications but that also might offer the possibility to better understand where the strength of concrete actually comes from.