The Office of Research strives to ignite, support, and safeguard research and scholarship across the university,embodying New Mexico Tech commitment to amplify research, empower student success, enrich engaged learning, financial resilience, and energize community, while serving the state of New Mexico and society.
New Mexico Tech's Office of Research encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative
work between faculty, students, and other universities and research entities. The
Office of Research provides financial support, professional and technical expertise,
and special services and facilities to assist researchers at New Mexico Tech.
New Mexico Tech recognizes the importance of research projects to prepare all students
for their career. Therefore, all researchers, even those who are not tenure-tracked
faculty members, are strongly encouraged to hire students and give them active roles
in projects.
New Mexico Tech's Compliance and Safety professionals offer services, training and
support to help researchers maintain the highest ethical standards, security precautions
and safety requirements.
The recipients of the Distinguished Research Award are chosen by a committee of Tech
faculty and researchers and are nominated by their colleagues. The award is presented
annually at fall Convocation.
New Mexico Tech's Institutional Review Board (IRB) is charged with protecting the
rights and welfare of human research participants recruited to participate in research
activities conducted at New Mexico Tech. The members who serve on the IRB are scientists
and staff members from Tech, as well as non-affiliated members of the Socorro community.
Many of the human subjects research projects at NMT are eligible for either administrative
or expedited review. The IRB meets as needed to review any projects that require full-board
approval. All on-going research projects that involve human subjects are reviewed
yearly, depending upon the level of risk.
The Office of Research develops policies and procedures to facilitate all aspects
related to research including, but not limited to, training, safety, and compliance.
The Office of Innovation Commercialization (OIC) was created in 2017 to promote an
entrepreneurial culture on the New Mexico Tech (NMT) campus, focusing on commercializing
technology created and developed at NMT. OIC receives invention disclosures from NMT
faculty, staff, and students and evaluates these disclosures based on their commercial
potential. We work closely with NMT faculty, staff, and student inventors to understand
and assess the potential of their intellectual property to either license their innovations
to industry partners or develop their IP into a startup venture.
Sponsored Projects Development provides campus-wide pre-award support to increase
proposal success, from single-investigator submissions to large multidisciplinary
and multi-institutional initiatives. We help faculty and staff identify opportunities,
build competitive strategies, develop compliant budgets, and submit high-quality proposals.
New Mexico Tech has more than a dozen research divisions that work with private industry,
government agencies and other universities.
These divisions employ undergraduate students, offer research opportunities for graduate
students and contribute ground-breaking research to the scientific canon and the world
of industry, science and engineering.
This Research Colloquium is an opportunity to present current research. The main goal
of the event is to foster transdisciplinary research and to connect researchers with
the purpose of increasing research opportunities.
NM Tech's Research Integrity Policy is located here.
Research misconduct is defined as: "fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing,
performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Research misconduct
does not include honest error or honest differences of opinion."
Organized by Professor Chris ChoGlueck, this series in Research Ethics aims to support and improve knowledge about ethics
and create a culture of integrity, inclusion, and equity. We offer regular workshops
that foster awareness and discussion and build a network of support among researchers.
All are invited to participate in these conversations about ethics & integrity in
our research communities at NMT.
Any principal investigator (PI), co-principal investigator and any other person (including
faculty, staff and students) who is responsible for the design, conduct or reporting
of New Mexico Tech (NMT) research.
New Mexico Tech has more than 500 graduate students, most of whom are funded by research
grants secured by faculty members and staff scientists. Graduate students in engineering
departments and the sciences (physics, biology, and chemistry) work on master’s theses
and Ph.D. dissertations that break new ground in their chosen fields.
Nearly all New Mexico Tech undergraduate students finish their degrees with some campus
research experience. Professors in each department hire students to work on research
projects. In addition to paid work, students engage in senior projects that are often
sponsored by industry groups.
Unlike many universities that reserve research work for graduate students, New Mexico
Tech specifically aims to give undergraduates hands-on experience solving real-world
problems. Each department manages state-of-the-art laboratories that have student
workers.
