Students work one-on-one with faculty in independent studies and directed readings to study topics outside of the regular curriculum. Research opportunities also are available through the Summer Scholarship and Research Program (SSRP) and the NSF-funded REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates).
Recent topics of independent studies include operations research, computer graphics, neural networks, quality control, design of experiments, multivariate statistical analysis, object-oriented programming languages, calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and advanced linear algebra.