I'm about to enter my third year of electrical and computer engineering and I'd like to get into research in order to get more hands on practice. However, I'm intimidated with professors and graduate students because I don't fully understand their research and feel as if I'll be in the way. In general, is undergraduate research encouraged in engineering? Or,in other words, do faculty mind that undergraduate students look on their research? And about how many hours of research would you say is acceptable for a student per week?