In a typical undergraduate research experience the student is often assigned a small portion of a more comprehensive endeavor.  While they may complete their assigned portion of the project, the larger investigation is often one that was active prior to the student's arrival in the lab and will continue once the student has left.  What we present here are the results, lessons, and experiences from a multi-disciplinary, multi-campus, undergraduate microgravity research program that requires the students to go from the idea stage to final report writing in one year.  The research is conducted as part of NASA's highly competitive Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. Because of its unique features, we believe our program provides the student with a much broader, more comprehensive, and more stimulating research experience than the traditional program.

Complete undergraduate research experience inspired by NASA's Microgravity University

245th National Meeting (2013)

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