Ku is also a Professor of Surgery at Emory School of Medicine and is the founder of two biomedical commercialization ventures. Ku likes for undergraduate students to experience that thrill also, so he has included undergrads in his research laboratory ever since he came to Georgia Tech 14 years ago. It is also emblematic of the type undergraduate involvement in research being encouraged through new initiatives recently unveiled by Tech President, G. Wayne Clough. In the classroom, students know that every problem they do has been solved by hundreds of students before.
Research takes time and hard work which undergraduates find out in a research lab.
The open-ended problems of research are ambiguous and require ingenuity and creativity to solve the problem. Researchers have to try new things and be resourceful because the answer is not in a book. They end up helping our research process tremendously. They end up helping our research process tremendously. When students approach Ku about working in his lab, he asks them to commit to working for two semesters.