This is a preliminary list of MEng Project offerings for Fall 2012, a more complete list will be available at orientation, you may also contact individual faculty for additional opportunities.
MAE undergraduate research opportunities (many of these offerings are available to MEng students as well):
Prof. Avedisian
Pulse-heating small-scale metal films for microscale boiling studies
Chemical Reaction of Glycerine by Film Boiling
The International Space Station Droplet Combustion of Butanol
Thermoelectric Generators for Waste Heat Recovery in Automobiles
Prof. Garcia
Increasing the Power Output from Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters
Ballistic Trajectory Control for Smart Munitions
Computational and Experimental Wind Turbine Design and Optimization
Control of an Efficient, Hydraulic, Human-Scale Robot Leg
Dynamic Motion of the Aerodynamic Center of Pressure
Novel Wind Power Devices using Fluttering and Flapping Wings
Micro Electro-Mechanical Actuators
Prof. Psiaki
Multipath Mitigation in a GPS Software Receiver
GPS Jammer Localization
Antenna Articulation Mechanism for Special-Purpose GPS Receiver
Prof. Williamson
The Aircraft Wake Phenomenon
The Vortex-Induced Vibration Problem