Collection

2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman S Kuzmar, Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia

its various academic programs [2]. UCD lists five reasonsfor performing research by undergraduate students. According to UCD, these are: 1. Exploring career directions 2. Building transferable skills and enhancing resumes 3. Learning to publicly advocate for and defend work 4. Getting a leg up on graduate or professional school 5. Contributing knowledge and impacting the worldAlthough it has some obstacles and challenges, a paper in the 123rd annual ASEE conference inLouisiana in 2016 demonstrated that undergraduate research still has many benefits, as perceivedby the students themselves [3]. The paper was on the efficacy of undergraduate research basedon a survey of undergraduate students. The students’ most common