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. This page will be updated as additional project descriptions become available.
When you and your project advisor have agreed on the details of your MEng project you need to complete a Project Approval Form. If you are starting your project in the Fall semester the form needs to be turned in to the MEng Mailbox in Upson 108 by September 7.
Autonomous Systems Lab
coming soon
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
Dr. Bashaskaran
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Model Functional Outcomes of Rhinoplasty in ENT Surgeries
Prof. Fisher
Design of a sampling system for evaluating emissions from cookstoves
Sustainable Energy Cookstove Producing Biochar Modeling, Optimization, and Testing
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. George
Community Energy Alternatives and Choices
Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Wind Tunnel Testing
Prof. Hencey
Smart Energy Systems
Prof. Hernandez
Biomechanical Image Analysis
Orthopaedic Surgical Equipment
Nanofabricated Mechanical Testing Device
Prof. Kirby
Kirby Lab
Prof. Lipson
coming soon
Prof. Louge
Flows of Granular Solids and Gases
Prof. Psiaki
Multipath Mitigation in a GPS Software Receiver
GPS Jammer Localization
Antenna Articulation Mechanism for Special-Purpose GPS Receiver
Prof. Ruina
Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab
Prof. Williamson
The Aircraft Wake Phenomenon
The Vortex-Induced Vibration Problem
Prof. van der Meulen
coming soon
Prof. Zhang
coming soon
Prof. Zehnder
Earth energy - micromechanics of shale fracture
Fracture mechanics - 3D crack growth
Wind Turbine Simulation
MAE undergraduate research opportunities (many of these offerings are available to MEng students as well)
2012-2013 Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering Design Projects
Many Biomedical Engineering design project teams find having students with mechanical engineering backgrounds to be an asset.