VIPER Undergraduate Energy Research and Leadership Development

Catalog description

This course is designed to support and prepare students in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) in their on-going commitment to research activities and enhance their development as energy research leaders. This course is offered in the summer, fall, and spring terms, and module assignments will be specific to the term, as described below. Students are expected to complete a minimum number of graded module assignments which can be tailored to reflect their current research efforts and plans. This structure is designed to support sophomore, junior, and senior students throughout their undergraduate career. Students may register repeatedly for VIPR-1300 as they continue with their research experiences throughout their undergraduate career. Activities include making arrangements to conduct VIPER research over the summer, reading scientific literature related to their summer research projects, writing reports in preparation for and summarizing their summer research activities, summarizing and reflecting on their on-going research efforts during the semester, being actively involved in energy-relevant activities and submitting reflections about their experiences, and preparing materials for and presenting their energy research to the Penn community in the form of poster sessions and/or campus-wide presentations.