Starting this September, student-researchers will work in groups of 3 to 4, spending 800 hours per team developing and executing a research proposal that solves a specific objective identified by your organization.

Under support from their instructors, students will develop hypotheses, perform a literature review, devise an experimental plan, execute experiments, and conduct data analyse within the UBC research facilities.

Prior to starting their experiments, students will develop and submit a budget to your organization for approval.

This project will run over two semesters. In the first semester of the course students will submit a research proposal report, accompanied by an oral presentation. During the second semester students will execute their experimental plans and submit a final written report and oral presentation of their results.

Example projects include, but are not limited to:

• Assessing different pre-treatments of the cacao bean for effectiveness in lowering the amount of acetic acid (bad for chocolate) to find out which would be the fastest and least expensive.
• Assessing starch gelatinization effects on the staling of bread.
• Assessing how fermentation temperature affects a specific grape to produce the highest quality wine.