     Our goal here is to provide a small number of the very best students with a virtually unique opportunity at an early age to expand the outer bounds of their intellectual possibilities. We are looking for a few students who envision themselves ultimately as scientific leaders, and who wish to significantly accelerate their progress to this outcome.

     Admission to HPUR is contingent upon top-rank high school scholastic credentials and interviews with potential McCormick faculty advisers. Upon admission, you may begin your research as early as your freshman year and continue it throughout your undergraduate career. With advanced-placement status and robust academic and research performance, you may be admitted to Northwestern’s Graduate School as early as your junior year. Then, you could work directly towards your Ph.D. without requiring the M.S. degree. In effect, your undergraduate research would “count” as your M.S. thesis. Overall, HPUR has the potential to significantly accelerate your progress to the Ph.D. and provide you with early visibility in the research community as a rising young star.

     If interested, please contact Prof. Allen Taflove, McCormick’s HPUR Coordinator, via email at taflove@ece.northwestern.edu.

Nothing makes learning more exciting and prepares you better for graduate school than independent research. At McCormick, the Honors Program in Undergraduate Research (HPUR) can provide you with an extraordinary opportunity to work with an engineering faculty mentor / adviser and his or her research group in conducting a challenging research project potentially leading to an accelerated Ph.D. degree. Faculty mentors in this program are actively involved with their advisees. This includes:
• Setting up a meaningful research experience • Providing continuous mentoring • Obtaining grants for financial support • Providing opportunities for presenting research results at international symposia • Providing opportunities for authoring articles in refereed scientific journals.
Our goal here is to provide a small number of the very best students with a virtually unique opportunity at an early age to expand the outer bounds of their intellectual possibilities. We are looking for a few students who envision themselves ultimately as scientific leaders, and who wish to significantly accelerate their progress to this outcome. Admission to HPUR is contingent upon top-rank high school scholastic credentials and interviews with potential McCormick faculty advisers. Upon admission, you may begin your research as early as your freshman year and continue it throughout your undergraduate career. With advanced-placement status and robust academic and research performance, you may be admitted to Northwestern’s Graduate School as early as your junior year. Then, you could work directly towards your Ph.D. without requiring the M.S. degree. In effect, your undergraduate research would “count” as your M.S. thesis. Overall, HPUR has the potential to significantly accelerate your progress to the Ph.D. and provide you with early visibility in the research community as a rising young star. If interested, please contact Prof. Allen Taflove, McCormick’s HPUR Coordinator, via email at taflove@ece.northwestern.edu.