Undergraduate Summer Research Internship

The Faculty Undergraduate Summer Research Internship programme is launched to offer CUHK engineering undergraduate students with funding support to undertake a research project under the supervision of professors in summer.  The objectives are to give students exposure to research environment, and grooms them for graduate studies and overseas summer research schemes.

1. Non final-year engineering  undergraduate students with a CGPA of 3.3 or above are eligible. Priority will be given to senior-year students.

2. Students who are planning and/or are going to participate summer programmes; or taking summer courses overseas for more than three weeks accumulatively; or taking more than three weeks of accumulated leave are NOT eligible for the internship programme.

3. The scheme is for undergraduate students with research interest to join on the voluntary basis, and it is currently a non-credit bearing programme.

4. The student will need to approach a professor in the Faculty (in any department) to be his/her supervisor and come up with the project details with the supervisor's approval. For reference, projects completed in Summer 2023 can be found here .” 

5. The student is required to write a 1-page proposal about the research problem and research objective after discussing his/her research ideas with the supervising professor.

6. It is expected that the student will be attached to a professor/research lab.  The prior approval/agreement of which should be obtained by the student.

7. Participants will have to submit a Progress Report and a Final Report on 8 July 2024 (Mon) and 13 August 2024 (Tue) respectively.

8. There will be a compulsory Poster Presentation at the end of the summer for participants to present their research results.  Awards will be given to the top 10% projects assessed by a committee.

9. To attract high calibres and incentivize good quality of research works, financial support would be provided for participants whose works are exemplary and being accepted by conference during September in the same year to May in the following year. Nomination should be done via the project supervisor.

A research grant of up to HK$10,000 will be awarded to each student for each participant upon completion of the research project with earnest effort well recognized by the supervising professor.

The disbursement is to be paid after completion of the programme based on performance and level of completion:

Please take note of the programme schedule as follows:

VeriGuide Checking

All progress reports and final reports submitted by participants should undergo the VeriGuide Checking.

1. Poster presentation – 30% of the grant with be deducted; and
2. Each scheduled meeting with supervisor or tutor or their designates – 5% of the grant will be deducted.

To apply for an internship, please download the application form, and take the following steps:

1. Approach a professor and to propose a research project that you would like to work on
2. Write a 1-page research proposal in the Application Form about the problem you will study, and what you hope to accomplish
3. Get the consent from the professor you consulted to agree to supervise you and sign the form
4. Upload the signed Application Form with endorsed research proposal (PDF format)
5. Input the required fields and submit your application online

The submission deadline is on 15 April, 2024 (Mon) . Confirmation of submission will be sent to successful applicants by end of May 2024.