Now entirely online in summer 2024!
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to offer an online REU (O-REU) program. We have partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory for this research opportunity. This program is open to US citizens and permanent residents.
43 O-REU program will run from May 22 to August 2, 2024.
Download a program flyer here.
During the summer, students are expected to participate (40 hours/week) and are remunerated $5000 for the summer. All activities are carried out fully remotely: there are no in-person meetings and no residency requirement. Travel support for one site visit will also be made available. O-REU is open to US citizens and permanent residents currently pursuing bachelor's degrees. However, priority will be given to sophomores and juniors enrolled within the south-central US (TX, NM, OK, AR, LA).
- 1-page resume
- electronic transcript
- list of preferred mentors (please consult our faculty interests here)
- contact information (name, professional affiliation, email address) for two references
The summer 2024 O-REU program will run from May 22 to August 2, 2024.
Applications for the summer term will be reviewed continuously until 5 pm central standard time on Friday, April 19, 2024.
Information on the summer 2024 O-REU program may be found on the TAMU Online REU Program webpage.
The O-REU program will incorporate similar elements to a residence-based REU, but with additional resources available online. Here is an outline of planned activities and resources:
- students paired up with faculty mentors and their group members
- regular online meetings
- a pre-defined schedule of deliverables: project statement, mid-term update, final presentation
- topics in programming, computation, and data science by the Texas A&M University High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) center and the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS)
- training on specialized topics by faculty mentors and their groups
- online faculty research seminars
- online presentations by participating students
- communications and remote collaboration
- applying to grad school: getting recommendation letters, preparing for GRE, writing a statement
- applying for fellowships
- Center for Research Excellence on Dynamically Deformed Solids
- TAMU national laboratories office
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing center
- Texas A&M Institute for Data Science