Undergraduate research has been found to provide an essential component of engineering and engineering technology education and therefore belongs in the undergraduate curriculum. It has a positive effect on individual research programs and the university's research enterprise. It contributes to the intellectual life of individual departments and the campus as a whole, while it raises the level of research activity, and helps recruit stronger undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. This paper analyzes the student learning outcomes, for Engineering and Engineering Technology (E&ET) programs, where the curriculum has been tailored to include undergraduate research, as compared to lecture & lab-based curriculum.
