Research

Any student, regardless of experience, is welcome to join a student-led research group. We've set aside Friday afternoons as time to explore interesting applictions and the cutting-edge of technology.

The benefits of participating in a group are numerous:

• glowing letters of recommendations from professors
• developing teamwork skills
• project-based learning that emphasizes developing cutting-edge skills and tools
• presenting your work at regional conferences
• publishing research papers

Students that participate in extra-curricular activities such as these are often the most marketable, sought-after students upon graduation.

Examples of student-led research in the department:

• Mathematical modeling of hurricanes and weather development patterns.
• Data science competitions involving machine learning -- categorizing social media posts as cyber bullying
• Virtual Reality -- a baseball simulator that allows you to experience what it is like to try to hit a 100 mph fastball.
• App Development -- a VR app that serves as a virtual tour of Drake University
• Game Development -- a Drake-themed version of an Action Role Playing Game, The Legend of Zelda
• Data Mining of political tweets to determine the likelihood that a tweet has a political affiliation
• Machine Learning and Robotics -- teaching a robot to automatously drive around Collier Scripps Hall
• 3D Printing
• Networking and Computer Engineering -- programming an Arduino to communicate with a graphing calculator 

Contact Professor Tim Urness if you have any questions or would like to join a group.