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Prototyping Social and Environmental Impact in Engineering Courses
The world needs engineers who, in addition to their technical skills, can evaluate and address the environmental, social, and ethical factors impacting their engineering decisions. In parallel…
2 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Sustainability
(+3)
Engineering
Engineering Education
Sustainability
Teaching & Learning
PSInet: data science for climate change research
PSInet is an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network to harness the power of plant water potential (Ψ) and address scientific questions about climate change impacts on earth systems. Prof. Jessica…
2 sp.
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2 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Environmental Science
(+4)
Biology
Climate Change
Data Science
Ecology
Environmental Science
Greening the Inorganic Laboratory Experiments
The inorganic chemistry laboratory has two experiments that rely on the use of dichloromethane, which is no longer used at HMC due to updated regulations from the EPA. We need to fix the labs!
2 sp.
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9 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Chemistry
Efficient covariate adjustment in blocked randomized experiments
Investigate ways to reduce the variance of average treatment effect estimates in large blocked experiments with auxiliary covariate information.
2 sp.
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9 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Data Science
(+2)
Mathematics
Data Science
Statistical Modeling
🌊 Flow Imaging Lab at Mudd [Mendelson] 🐟📷
Prof. Mendelson's Flow Imaging Lab at Mudd experimentally studies the water-air interface, bioinspired, and biological flows. Recruiting for multiple projects in Spring 2026.
6 sp.
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29 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Robotics
(+5)
Engineering
Biomechanics
Computer Vision
Fluid Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics
Salt Plug Estuary Fluid Dynamics
Learn about estuary fluid dynamics and work with hydrodynamic models.
2 sp.
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12 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Fluid Mechanics
(+3)
Climate Change
Environmental Science
Fluid Mechanics
Numerical Modeling
Modeling the performance of spin-squeezed optically pumped magnetometers
This project is in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and is only open to US Citizens and/or Green Card holders. Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are quantum sensors that can measure…
1 sp.
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5 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Physics
MuddOR Lab
Room draw left you fORlORn? Are scheduled times for required courses discORdant? Do your instructOR's office hour times leave you high and dry? Have you taken Math 187 (operations research) and want…
3 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Operations Research
Imputing Measles Outbreak Data Based on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy is on the rise nationally, resulting in outbreaks of dangerous diseases such as measles. In counties where measles vaccine uptake is low, measles outbreaks tend to go underreported…
2 sp.
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11 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Statistical Modeling
(+3)
Mathematics
Data Science
Operations Research
Statistical Modeling
Understanding plant water use in a changing climate
Plant water potential is a key metric of water stress that controls how plants take up carbon, transport water, grow, and reproduce. We now have automated tools to measure water potential on a half…
2 sp.
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8 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Climate Change
(+5)
Biology
Climate Change
Earth Science
Ecology
Environmental Science
Statistical Modeling
HMC Innovation Accelerator Lab: Imaginative Prototyping with AI
🚨 NOTE: Applications for this project are not being collected directly through the URO site! Read the requirements below, but submit your application here . 🚨 🚀 Call for Fellows: The Innovation…
8 sp.
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1 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
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Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
(+9)
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Engineering Education
Machine Learning
Teaching & Learning
Join the 🍊🍊C∪TE lab🍊🍊 [Santana]
tl;dr: To apply, complete this form by the URO deadline. The Cell Biology, μfluidics, and Tissue Engineering (C ∪TE) lab is hiring for next semester (and beyond)! Our interdisciplinary work focuses on…
4 sp.
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3 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Biomedical Engineering
(+12)
Biology
Engineering
Physics
Additive Manufacturing
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Sciences
Bioprinting
Chemical Engineering
Fluid Mechanics
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Microfluidics
Polymer Science
Shape-dependent Polymer Degradation
Overview: The accessibility of polymeric materials has led to their widespread use in addressing diverse global challenges from food preservation to light transportation and affordable medical devices…
1 sp.
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9 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Polymer Science
(+4)
Chemistry
Materials Science
Molecular Design
Polymer Science
Sustainability
RISC-V Microprocessor Verification and Design
Harvey Mudd College has become a major developer of the configurable, open CORE-V Wally microprocessor and of the RISC-V Certification test plan and suite. The Clay-Wolkin Fellowship is supported by…
5 sp.
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24 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Engineering
Metal-organic polymers
Background: Plastics are usually made from organic polymers, and are incredibly widespread and useful. However, metals bring a whole host of useful properties - color, conductivity, catalytic activity…
1 sp.
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11 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Materials Science
(+1)
Chemistry
Materials Science
Novel lead-free bronze alloys
We are developing new non-toxic and industrially-viable bronze alloys to eliminate sources of environmental lead. We travel to Australia for summer research.
2 sp.
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10 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Materials Science
(+2)
Engineering
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Human Movement Biomechanics Lab in Engineering (HUMBLE) Projects
In the Human Movement Biomechanics Lab in Engineering (HUMBLE), we study patellar instability treatment and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention. Patellar instability is a condition…
5 sp.
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32 appl.
Hours per week
Fall - Part Time
(+2)
Fall - Part Time
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Machine Learning
(+3)
Engineering
Biomechanics
Biomedical Engineering
Machine Learning
Flexible, interdisciplinary computing/chemistry for understanding the atmosphere/biosphere
The FICUS* Lab, led by Prof. Kavassalis, investigates the fundamental chemistry that shapes air quality and climate, with a focus on connecting high-resolution measurements to advanced computational…
6 sp.
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13 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Numerical Modeling
(+7)
Chemistry
Computer Science
Climate Change
Data Science
Earth Science
Ecology
Numerical Modeling
Sustainability
Bahena Desalination & Water Reuse Lab
I will work closely with students to (i) evaluate the performance of a bench-scale reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment system and to (ii) describe the fundamental mechanisms involved in the treatment…
4 sp.
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17 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Sustainability
(+2)
Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Sustainability
Molecules in Motion: Unveiling the Chemical Physics in Solution
Are you intrigued by the fact that our kidneys' filtration membrane can distinguish between proteins and sugars? Are you amazed that pure water might actually be a mixture? Are you excited to find out…
3 sp.
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14 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Physics
(+4)
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering
Mathematics
Physics
Carbon Capture Materials
Background: Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials that are able to capture greenhouse gases, like CO2 and methane. We are particularly interested in "hybrid" MOFs, which contain small…
1 sp.
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8 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Chemistry
(+1)
Chemistry
Materials Science
Computational materials science: liquid-to-solid metal phase changes
Join a multi-professor, multi-HMC-alum collaboration to study the structures of metal alloys in solid and liquid states at an atomistic level using computational tools.
1 sp.
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6 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Numerical Modeling
(+5)
Chemistry
Engineering
Physics
Machine Learning
Materials Science
Numerical Modeling
Transdermal Transport and Mechanical Property Measurement [Lape]
The Transdermal Research Team investigates the mechanical properties of skin and the effects of changes in the skin's microstructure due to varying hydration levels and mechanical stretching on the transport of chemicals across the skin.
3 sp.
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12 appl.
Hours per week
Fall - Part Time
(+2)
Fall - Part Time
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Chemical Engineering
(+5)
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Sciences
Chemical Engineering
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Computational materials design and discovery for green infrastructure [Ritz]
Members of my group will seek to design and understand materials along two main thrusts (interest in either one is sufficient): Materials which could be used to harvest thermal and mechanical energy…
2 sp.
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16 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Physics
(+2)
Chemistry
Engineering
Physics
Ant Wars: Ant Tracking with Machine Learning + Computer Vision
Ants are among the most abundant organisms on earth, with a recent estimate placing their number around 20 quadrillion individuals and their biomass around 20% of human biomass. They play key roles in…
1 sp.
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11 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Ecology
(+4)
Biology
Computer Science
Computer Vision
Data Science
Ecology
Music Information Retrieval Research
The Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Research Lab explores the intersection of music, signal processing, and machine learning. Our goal is to train machine learning and signal processing ninjas using…
2 sp.
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4 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+1)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Project categories
Machine Learning
(+1)
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Promoting probiotic bacterial growth and activity
Overview: Trillions of microbes live within us in an ever-changing population that has profound impacts on our health. Even in healthy individuals, our microbiomes are dynamic communities comprising…
1 sp.
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10 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
Project categories
Biology
(+2)
Biology
Chemistry
Sustainability
Multiple Openings for Machine Learning in Diverse Domains (MADD Lab)
Prof. Mohanty's Machine Learning in Diverse Domains (MADD Lab) is seeking passionate students to work on cutting-edge projects related to increasing the safe deployment of robots and autonomous…
3 sp.
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14 appl.
Hours per week
Spring - Part Time
(+2)
Spring - Part Time
Summer - Full Time
Summer - Part Time
Project categories
Computer Vision
(+3)
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
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