Do B.S.E. students do independent work or a senior thesis?
Yes. The requirements and arrangements vary from department to department, but just about every B.S.E. student does some form of independent work. It can be a full-year senior thesis, or one or more semester-long projects. A senior thesis is an individual undertaking, while sometimes groups of students get together to work on projects. The SEAS record is six terms of independent work, which is a little excessive, but two or even three terms of independent work is closer to the norm.
