Skills Gained

Through this experience, we have improved our career readiness skills (NACE competencies) which has led to our success in presenting at the Undergraduate Research Forum. Overall, this research project has been extremely beneficial to our development as students, and the skills developed will support us in reaching our future professional goals. 

Teamwork 

    Collaborating on this project has taught the importance of working together to achieve common goals that would otherwise be unreachable, allowing measurements and data to be collected and continuously take place. Working together has also provided further ideas to be exchanged, allowing a deeper understanding of the project to be obtained. 

Critical Thinking

    Conducting measurements in an evolving experiment and analyzing data has allowed us to develop a greater ability to determine next steps in our research through analyzing continuous developments, as well as forming conclusions. During this research, we have sought a broader understanding across the data and formed results that we further applied across the field and in real-world applications. 

Communication

Working on this research project as a group of undergraduate students has been heavily reliant on consistent and effective communication. As college students at different places in our academic journey, it is hard to find overlapping schedules that work for everyone. Due to this, there were times in which we were unable to work in person together when carrying out research tasks, especially given the scope of this project. From this, we maintained an efficient system of communication with one another and our research advisor, Dr. Jacobsen; we improved both our verbal and written skills through this system and the use of a shared Google Document.