Ethos R&D
How Does Ethos R&D Work?
The Ethos R&D program provides a mechanism to help faculty members establish, grow, and sustain engineering research and development projects that are Ethos-centric in nature through the use of trans-disciplinary student teams. The participating undergraduate and graduate students can participate in the Ethos R&D program in a variety of ways, finding one that fits their academic and experiential needs and interests.
Ethos R&D Roles
Provide technical support in teams of 3 to 4 students to an assigned Ethos R&D project.
- Commitment to 2 to 8 hours per week based on table below which will count as academic credit selected towards a program of study.
Academic Credit per Number of Hours Worked Hours Worked (Per Week) Credit Received 2 0 4 1 6 2 8 3 - Undergraduate students register for EGR-398. No other application is needed.
- Graduate students register using special topics credit. No other application is needed.
- Attend periodic cohorted professional development seminars to hear from the experts enabling research and development for the common good
Provide managerial oversight of Ethos R&D team(s).
- Attend research management short course
- Commitment to two consecutive semesters of leading an R&D student team
- Work with faculty mentor to identify semesterly deliverables and associated project schedule towards defined deliverables
- Providing weekly support of R&D student team during fall and spring semesters (roughly 5 hours per project)
- Running team meetings
- Assessment of student deliverables
- Lab training and support
Primary contact for an Ethos R&D project.
- Committing to at least three years of support for the proposed Ethos R&D project and defining the long-term deliverables
- Supporting the graduate manager to define cohort-specific (yearly) scope of work and deliverables
- Providing technical mentorship for each student team cohort.
- Publication of project progress with student collaborators