Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Experiential Learning Opportunities
Join an existing research project with one of our research staff members as a UROP! You may also propose a research project you have developed from work done in a D-Lab class or on a D-Lab fieldwork trip. Experiential Learning Opportunities (ELO) is a new MIT program, similar to UROP. See below for current listings!
Compensation for UROPs and ELOs
- MIT students may receive pay or credit
- Non-MIT students may receive credit only
Independent Activities Period (January 2021) ELO Listings
- Designing online app (smartphone/tablet/Android/Mac) for the Horizon Center (Athens) refugee remote learning
- Designing online curriculum for the Horizon Center (Athens) refugee women’s program
- Designing online curriculum for the Horizon Center (Athens) unaccompanied refugee minors program
- Viability of gear manufacture without specialized machines
Fall 2020 UROP and ELO Listings
Covid-19
Design and Education
- Assessment of bicycle models in Sub-Saharan Africa - Remote
- Creative Capacity Building (CCB) Build-It Modules for an Energy Project in Northern Uganda - Remote
- Factors that Contribute to or Hinder Effective Co-Design - Remote
- JumptoPC: Curating and Creating Content for Online Learning and Practice for Low-Income Students - POSITION FILLED
- Review of Participatory Design Approaches and When to Use Each Approach - Remote
- STEAM Modules for an Online Course on Design in East Timor - Remote
Energy
- Biomass Combustion Experiments to Validate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Reaction Models - On-campus and/or remote
- CharWorks-Process Modeling for Continuous Carbonization of Biomass Residues in Low-Resource Settings - POSITION FILLED
- Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer of Evaporative Cooling Devices for Improved Vegetable Storage in Low - Income Rural Communities - 2 POSITIONS FILLED - MORE AVAILABLE
Engineering
- Affordable Involute Gear Manufacturing - On-campus
- Design, manufacture, & testing a heavy gauge steel tube rolling machine - On campus
Innovation
- Agricultural Innovation in Smallholder Farming Systems in India - Remote - 3 POSITIONS FILLED - MORE AVAILABLE
- Support the Development of Innovation Hubs in Colombia - Remote
MIT Program Opportunities
- MIT D-Lab Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Internship - Remote
- MIT D-Lab Impact Internship - Remote
- MIT D-Lab Oral History: Telling the Stories of D-Lab International Community Partners - POSITION FILLED
- MIT D-Lab Student Project Archive Initiative - Remote
Social Entrepreneurship
Eligibility
- MIT Students
All registered MIT undergraduates in good academic standing, including transfer students. - Wellesley College Students
Cross-registered Wellesley undergraduates participating through the MIT-Wellesley Exchange Program (credit only). - Students participating in an official MIT Undergraduate Exchange
During their semester(s) of study at MIT.
More information
Subscribe to D-Lab UROP listserv
Contact
Megha Hegde, MIT D-Lab Research Associate and UROP Coordinator