Description

Are you interested in the societal grand challenge of food, energy, and water security? The IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center creates Internet of Things technologies for precision agriculture.

We are looking for summer undergraduate researchers! Students from 2- and 4-year institutions who are majoring in science and engineering degree programs will spend 10 weeks during May–August contributing to cutting-edge research related to sensors, robotics, and collecting and analyzing data to increase crop production using fewer resources.

Applications are reviewed, and offers made, on a rolling basis (deadline: February 27, 2026). Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must not graduate before September 2026.

IoT4Ag REU Program webpage with details and application portal.

Requirements

• Applicants should be interested in contributing to research that creates and applies the internet of things technologies to agricultural problems, and the broader area of AgTech.
• Applicants must be a current undergraduate who will not have graduated before August 2026.
• Applicants must NOT be matriculated at an IoT4Ag Institution. If you are a student at University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida, Purdue University or University of California Merced, there may be other IoT4Ag opportunities. Contact your local IoT4Ag faculty or look for opportunities listed on Pathways to Science.
• Applicants must be US citizens, nationals, or permanent residents.