Undergraduate Definition and 624 Threads

I am a junior in high school living in Oklahoma and am interested in applying to the University of California, Berkeley when I can in my senior year. Now here is where things get complicated. In Oklahoma, high school students with high-ish grades (B or higher) have the option of concurrent...

I'm an engineering first year and I am looking for the best books relevant to my subject. My course is split up into five components: Maths, Electrical, Electronical, Materials, and Energy. By best books I mean that I am looking for books that explain most of what I need to know in a clear and...

Within the next year, I'm transferring from the local community college to the state university to complete my BS in chemical engineering. Right now I have about 3.5 gpa in my lower division courses (math, chem, physics, intro engineering, etc). Obviously, I'm going to work as hard as I can to...

To give you my rundown, I finished Dec 2010 at a top 20 university with a Math BA degree but unfortunately, did not do very well; I finished with an overall GPA of 2.8 and a major GPA of 2.6. To make matters worse, I did badly because I was a lazy and disorganized student with the wrong...

Im currently a junior physics major with an average gpa. I want to continue my education to the graduate level, and in order to better my chances of getting into a good grad school I really need to start focusing on getting some research experience. I have looked over some of the research...

Hello, everyone. I've been learning how to code for a bit. I picked Python because I figured I'd be able to skip the issues I would otherwise have with syntax and focus more on the programming aspect of it. Soon, though, I'm going to be ready to dive into one of the other languages with a...

How can we make a best resume to apply for undergraduate research assistance? I sent a message to professor and he said to send a resume. How can I make a best resume? The program is about: Assist with behavioral neuroscience testing of husbandry laboratory rats. Duties include tube/slide...

Hey, I'm an undergraduate student, studying Mathematics and Computer Science (but dropping the Computer Science part next year) at a UK university. I definitely want to do a PhD and get into academia later on, and I've read countless times that undergraduate research is the best way of...

Do students help out (set up apparatus in the lab, write some code?) on something the grad students/professors are working on or are they handed a topic which they work on individually or in groups, as with a bachelor's thesis? What kind of research can undergraduates even do anyway?

I want to attend grad school in engineering and I hear research is a very important thing to have on the application but how can I get involved in research? I have emailed many professors expressing interest, but I have been unable to secure even a volunteer position for myself. :(

I am a physics major. I took introductory quantum mechanics, theoretical mechanics, general relativity, and math until linear algebra, diff. equations, probability and statistics, and discrete math. I had decided to do some research while being undergraduate. Approaching faculty members...

Hello, I'm a high school senior from Turkey,and I will be applying to US (and possibly Canadian) institutions this year. Ok, this post is going to be a bit long,but as an international applicant,I have many questions about the admissions process even after hours of Googling,and I'm hoping that...

Theoretical Physics and Mathematics? By doing the joint would I miss out on valuable theoretical physics and be less able to specialise...? I mean a Theoretical Physics degree involves a lot of mathematics anyway right? Thanks for any advice :) !

Hello, everyone! I'm a sophomore Physics and Math major from Temple University. Currently my GPA is 3.91 and I'm currently in Differential Equations, multivariable calculus, and Physics 2 (introductory E&M type of class basically). My problem is that, although I've been doing great grade-wise...

Hello, I'd like to ask you all for some help in narrowing down my college choices. I plan on majoring in physics, most likely regular physics as opposed to applied physics, with maybe a double major in applied math. I live in the Illinois and here's a list of colleges I'm currently looking at...

Hi guys. I have reached 5.th semester of my bachelors degree and I am not too thrilled with my timetable. I already glimpsed into some solid-state physics introductions and find it beyond boring. Advanced quantum theory will be ok I guess. What I am looking for are either books that will help...

I was wondering if anybody knew of any good paid internship opportunities in the field of accelerator science/engineering or related fields for undergraduate students? They could be located anywhere in the world, but at least accessible for Canadian students. These internships would be...

Hey guys, this is my first thread here, and I have a question about courses to take during my undergraduate. I am currently in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, in the physics option (so basically eng phys). I am going into my third year and I have a large degree of...

I'm an undergraduate physics student at an european university. I just finished my first year. I really enjoyed all the courses I took, except for a lab class (the only I had) in which I don't think I learned much. I have an option to get involved in math or lab research; not both since I don't...

I'm just about to embark on a Physics degree in England, and am just finishing a year long industrial placement at a major oil and gas company. One thing that is particularly noticeable about my workplace is that everyone seems to be an engineer, suggesting that they are infinatley more...

Hi, I'm a senior in high school (it's the summer before my senior year) and I have been having trouble finding colleges with good physics programs. There are the obvious schools, such as UC Berkeley, Princeton, MIT, etc., but I am wondering what other colleges there are with good physics...

I have a slightly bothersome problem with my current body of physics knowledge. I got A's and B's in all my upper-level physics classes and I know the math, at least as much as I need to know to solve the problems, so it's not like I don't know ANYTHING about what I learned. But it was all...

Hi. I'm finishing my first year of Undergraduate CS with relative ease. We have the opportunity to take 30 credits worth of classes in another field of study (minor). I'm thinking of taking either an Applied Math or a Physics minor. For Math I was thinking about taking classes in abstract...

Hello, Next year will be my third year in college, and I was just wondering if taking Quantum Mechanics is REQUIRED to get into graduate school. The reason I'm asking is because QM 1 and 2 are only offered every other year and under my current situation I will be in undergraduate school for 5...

Undergraduate "handicap and/or impossible to get ahead" predicament. Need help :( Good evening all, I know I have recently posted several graduate questions recently as I was trying to think out/plan ahead. In doing so, I did some reading and research, particularly on this physics gre...

Hi, I will be starting my graduate study in mathematics in August 2011, and I was thinking of reviewing mathematics that I have learned while I was an undergraduate as soon as my summer vacation begins in June. The topics that I am considering to review include algebra (abstract and...

Hello everyone, I am an undergraduate in Elec. Engineering, and will be doing my final year project(doing a research on a topic for a year). My interest is on optoelectronic, I want to study the future of integrated optics and the possibility of replacing ordinary circuit by optical...

I'll try to keep this brief.. So, I am donig a non-grant based undergraduate research project this summer at my university. One of my advisors gave me two options. One of the is medial difficulty (still not that easy), and the other one high difficulty (I would have to read up a large number...

Would it be better to get a B.S. in physics then a M.S. in Optics? or would it be better to get a B.S. in Optical Engineering and then a M.S. in Optics? Either way I want to get a Masters in Optics, I just want to know if it would be a disadvantage to have a B.S. and M.S. both in optics.

Hi guys! I was thinking of pursuing a degree in Physics and was thinking of doing my undergraduate where I live (Perth). I was just wondering which would be a better university to attend, U.W.A or Curtin. Any help would be much appreciated :)

Hi all, I have trouble building my resume. From my understanding resume is shorter than a CV I want to know what science majors, especially Physics, usually included in their resume. Will research projects be included? Any online resource, guides will also be helpful..

Hello all, I'm a community college transfer student who was recently admitted to UCSC for physics as a junior. I've heard good but very few things about their program and was just wondering if there is any clout behind that. I realize most students want to go to Cal, UCLA, or UCSB for physics...

Hello, I am planning on transferring to Berkeley or UCSB as an undergraduate physics major in the Fall 2011. My future academic goal is to get into a top notch PhD program for theoretical physics. I am torn between the schools because although I know that Berkeley has a better reputation...

I recently made a https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=489019" about self studies in Physics. However, the topic mostly focused on physics books. Here, I want to focus on math books. In particular, math books needed for undergraduate level physics (and maybe first year graduate...

At the high school level, there is the Physics Olympiad exam. At the undergraduate level, there is the Putnam exam. Are there any Olympiad-type, undergraduate physics competitions out there? Like the Putnam, except for physics?

Has anyone had experience with studying there? Is English your first language? Did you have trouble in learning German? Did you learn it before or during your stay in Germany? Which university did you go to; which subject did you study; how did you find the program/course? More importantly; what...

I am not sure whether I have posted in the right section. As the title says, I want to know which software/technology I need to be familiar with for making a research paper. I am planning to take an undergraduate research program in my university. It is required for us to make a report in...

I'm right now twenty years old and in my second semester of a physics degree at a school which has a pretty wide variety of engineering and science degrees and an excellent reputation in those fields. I think I would be happy working in almost any science/engineering field, but I'm most...

Hello everyone! Our son wants to pursue physics as a major (eventually getting a Ph.D.) and wants to ultimately become a research physicist. He has narrowed down the schools that he has been accepted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Rochester...

Hello. I am a freshmen student in mathematics at Moscow State University (in Russia) and I'm confused with placing the subject called "analytic geometry" into the system of mathematical knowledge (if you will). We had an analytic geometry course in fall; now we are having a course in linear...

Guys, I just joined the navy and I keep hearing other sailors tell me they got their degrees through correspondence while on active duty, instead of waiting till they were out and using their GI Bill money for. Most of them have business or management degrees, so that might be the catch, but...

Hello! I am a current high school senior fortunate enough to have been accepted to Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, and I am having trouble making a decision. Although I have not yet visited any of these schools, I plan to in the coming weeks. A little about myself: I am interested in majoring...

Hi guys, i hope I'm noth bothering you. I was wondering if you can suggest me some good undergraduate course in physics in Europe. Something taught in English and not too expensive (lowest possible fees and living cost). I know i ask too much but I'd like to do my undergraduate deegre in Europe...

So, I find myself right now, trying to look around for SOME sort of job. I started looking around my department at school (mathematics) and slowly started realizing I could possibly find something there. I then found a professor, who I haven't spoken to before, that is researching exactly...

Hi everyone, I want to apply to undergraduate physics, but I need to know what university is good for physics UMBC or UMD, because I want after finish my undergraduate to apply to graduate for medical physics. Thank you

Hello, I was wondering if it is a tenable plan to be able to research over the summer in either mathematics or physics every summer throughout my undergraduate at different institutions. I know there are so many different REU programs out there and in Canada I could easily get an NSERC grant...

I am attempting to write applications for physics Ph.D. positions right now and I feel as if I am hitting a brick wall. I have "narrowed" it down to wanting to do a Ph.D. either related to inertial confinement fusion, particle or nuclear physics. I know I'm supposed to be advertising my skills...

I plan on one day going to graduate school for Math or Physics, depending on what graduate programs I get into and where my interest finally ends up falling. I am already doing some undergraduate research in physics and I began to wonder about if REU's in math were common and if so, what level...

Hi, I am currently studying Mechanical Engineering and I am in the first year. Can you guys suggest me any good books for thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. I am ready to buy more than just one book. I atleast want a book that can provide me with some basics(Easy learning) just to give me an...

Hello, this is my first time posting on these forums, so I'd just like to say hello (again). My problem is somewhat silly. Most people have an interest in getting out of school asap, but I'm the opposite. I'm just about to finish a degree major/minor in econ and math. Now, economics is a...