Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) 2023

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program recently opened applications for students to participate in a paid, 10-week, immersive summer research guided by the faculty and graduate student mentors.

Today’s structures are highly engineered buildings and bridges capable of carrying every day and extreme loads. In this project, students will get to work on understanding blast engineering design with a special focus on building materials like concrete and steel. Undergraduate researchers will work day-to-day alongside graduate students and permanent staff to create test plans, fabricate test specimens, and test large-scale structures to failure. Students will leave this summer with a greater understanding of engineering principles including structural dynamics, impact and blast loading, and composite behavior.

Application Link: SURF - Research - College of Engineering - Purdue University

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