Project oriented, faculty supervised research.

Projects should be hypothesis

driven and provide students with appropriate scientific research experience.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Students should demonstrate critical thinking skills by establishing

testable hypotheses, presenting logical experimental methods, analyzing data,
interpreting results, and discussing findings.

2. Students should demonstrate technical competency through correct

usage of terminology, concepts, principles, and logic in all elements of the
research project.

Expectations:

The expectation is that students should obligate 3 hours of lab time per week
per credit hour (for a long term).  The workload per week will vary depending
on the project and part of term.

Students are required to consult with their intended professor of record to

determine expectations for the agreed upon number of credit hours before
completing the application link below.

Students must submit a research proposal as part of the application process. 

The research proposal must include a title page and the following (in APA
format):

1. Describe the overall problem to be addressed.

2. Provide a section on scientific background that may be relevant to the

research being done.

3. List specific objective to attain the goal and brief description of how each
objective will be achieved.

4. Documents should be saved in the following file format:

StudentLast,StudentFirst_ENTO491_ProfessorOfRecordLast
Enrollment/Employment Requirements:

Students and Mentors must comply with all enrollment and/or employment
policies associated with ENTO 491 Research.  Mentors should be familiar with
these policies prior to the development of an ENTO 491 Research project and
recruitment of students into ENTO 491 Research.  Students should also be
familiar with these policies prior to agreeing to participate ENTO 491 Research. 
Students and Mentors should consult the Entomology Academic Advising or
Human Resources staff as to the current policies.

Requirements for Final Grade:

Final grade will be assigned based on assessment of these learning outcomes,

content evaluation of the research proposal, final project report, and a project
journal (each date that individual worked and time logged must be recorded in
the journal) or laboratory notebook. Registered students will be sent a link for
document uploading. The questionnaire and those documents are due no later
than two weeks after the last class day of the semester in which the student is
registered.

Technical difficulties are the responsibility of the student and sometimes occur;
therefore, we strongly encourage students to submit the documents well in
advance of the deadline to allow for troubleshooting in the event that technical
difficulties occur.

Submission of an application does not guarantee approval of an internship or

registration for the credit hours for which a student is requesting.  It is the
student’s responsibility to check their TAMU email account for correspondence
regarding their application.