Participating in Research Projects
Engineers for Exploration is a program enabling students, primarily undergraduates, from institutions across the country to engage in multidisciplinary and collaborative research projects, while protecting the environment, shedding light on scientific mysteries, and gaining hands-on experience.
Funded by sources including a National Science Foundation grant to QI affiliate Professor Ryan Kastner, the program teams student engineers with UC San Diego scientists in fields from ecology to oceanography and archaeology. Students create new technologies—embedded systems and software, machine learning, electronic integration, mechanical design, system building—to aid scientists in their work, then accompany them on field deployments around the world. In the process, participants develop skills early on in their careers that are invaluable both to industry engineering positions and graduate study.
The Engineers for Exploration summer session offers a paid internship; other opportunities are available throughout the year.