Research Labs

Research Labs

The program offers a hands-on research experience for international students. You will be placed directly in a research laboratory, joining a project defined by UC3M faculty of School of Engineering. You will gain technical skills by executing experiments, collecting and analyzing data, and contributing to real-world discoveries. If you are passionate about engineering and seeking to enrich your academic and professional career, explore our Research Labs Program.

• Duration: 8 weeks
• Credits: 6 ECTS (150 h)
• Languages: English and Spanish
• Price: 3.000€ for the academic year 25/26

Direction and Coordination: Elisa Mª Ruiz Navas 
Contact: students.c3is@uc3m.es

• Laboratory stay (established by each professor)
• Timetable (to be agreed with the teacher).
• Acknowledgement with grades
• Application form (available soon)

Departaments and Research Labs

At present, UC3M has 140 ongoing recognized Research Groups dependent on the university's 29 academic departments. Access specific information on UC3M’s Engineering research groups.

Learn more about C3IS' research lab projects for the 25/26 academic year:

• AI Techniques for Off‑Road Autonomous Navigation
• Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Vibration Signals Acquired Experimentally
• Biomechanical assessment of osteoporotic femurs reinforced with advanced bioabsorbable polymers
• Creating and improving a 3D Fabry–Perot Cell for Photothermal Experiments (Cim-3D-FP)
• Design and numerical analysis of mechanical metamaterials and quasi-zero stiffness structures for elastic wave and vibration isolation
• Design, Formal Analysis, and Hardware Implementation of Lightweight and AI-Enhanced Cryptographic Protocols
• Design, Privacy, and Robustness of AI-Based Biometric Systems Using Contact and Contactless Physiological Signals
• Development and Test of an Optical Sensor for Water Stress Monitoring in Trees
• Development of skills to improve the interaction between social robots and the elderly
• Environmental modeling through sensory fusion of camera and lidar
• Experimental Implementation of a BPSK Visible Light Communication System Using a Software-Defined Radio
• Implementation of an optical OFDM system with software-defined radio (SDR) for optical wireless communications
• Learning by imitation of trajectories in manipulation tasks
• Physiological Signal Cleaning for Driver-State Studies
• Simulation of free-space optics (FSO) communications
• Synthetic & Private Data for Driver Monitoring