Hello VOC,
Some of you may by now know me, I have been a member of the Kent and Sussex section for a couple of years now since I was 18 years old. Like most of the population aged under 23 I am at university at the moment, studying an Automotive based Bsc Degree at Brookes University, In a small town called Wheatley.
I am looking for some recommendations for possible Projects / dissertations to do next year. My choice was meant to be due in last week, however I am busy revising for my exams this week so told my teachers not to expect anything yet.
Ergo, I wanted to ask anyone who is remotely Engineering based, if they had any recommendations for some good dissertation titles?
Most of my lot either; pick something themselves such as “air flow over a variable wing” or “design and test a set of motorcycle telescopic front forks on the dyno applying relevant dynamic theory.”, or choose to be given a university one, Such as:
· Air flow through a Push bike helmet
· Suspension for a mountain bike
· Joining and manufacture techniques for a pushbike: Bambo to Steel.
· improve the efficiency of a thermo acoustic resonator
· Study the uses of CANBUS for a road car.
· Design an eligible Cylinder head for an Italian 1950s race bike (Is one for M-Eng students.)
I own and can use CAD packages such as SOLIDWORKS and AUTOCAD and am able to do FEA. I would like to learn some CFD I was therefore thinking about doing some CFD and wind tunnel testing of a black knight or Prince as I have some bits of fairing laying around at home as well as many Vin bits and bobs I study a bit of fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, thermo fluid and thermo dynamics type stuff. I would like to do something relating to Vincent’s as they are incredibly well designed for performance and reliability. Furthermore many members of the club are very knowledgeable of these subjects.
I would like my project to be able to apply modern day knowledge of sciences such as CAD packages and materials to historic technology.
(like the imperial wraith has done with its use of girdrolic front forks made from new light weight materials to replace teles.)
However am not too excited by the prospect of dynamics, so therefore suspension is really a no no. (Which is a shame as I have some telescopic, Brampton’s and girdrolics sitting around at home which I could compare.)
If any race teams (2 or 3 wheelers) have any ideas I would be interested in trying to help develop and test any of your ideas possibly for streamliners or fairings?
Sorry this thread has become a bit wordy but I am a bit bogged down with it (and revision and looking for a summer job) I am trying to talk to my lecturers come up with my own ideas and look externally for ideas but I don’t really know which end to start from.
I basically need a project which will be fairly simple for me to start and research on my own at home over the summer, (so a space station is out the question.) But something which is open ended enough I cannot ever run out of things to discuss and will be able to keep interested in. It will be marked on its engineering / technical content, so plenty of maths physics and formulas.
Alex
Some of you may by now know me, I have been a member of the Kent and Sussex section for a couple of years now since I was 18 years old. Like most of the population aged under 23 I am at university at the moment, studying an Automotive based Bsc Degree at Brookes University, In a small town called Wheatley.
I am looking for some recommendations for possible Projects / dissertations to do next year. My choice was meant to be due in last week, however I am busy revising for my exams this week so told my teachers not to expect anything yet.
Ergo, I wanted to ask anyone who is remotely Engineering based, if they had any recommendations for some good dissertation titles?
Most of my lot either; pick something themselves such as “air flow over a variable wing” or “design and test a set of motorcycle telescopic front forks on the dyno applying relevant dynamic theory.”, or choose to be given a university one, Such as:
· Air flow through a Push bike helmet
· Suspension for a mountain bike
· Joining and manufacture techniques for a pushbike: Bambo to Steel.
· improve the efficiency of a thermo acoustic resonator
· Study the uses of CANBUS for a road car.
· Design an eligible Cylinder head for an Italian 1950s race bike (Is one for M-Eng students.)
I own and can use CAD packages such as SOLIDWORKS and AUTOCAD and am able to do FEA. I would like to learn some CFD I was therefore thinking about doing some CFD and wind tunnel testing of a black knight or Prince as I have some bits of fairing laying around at home as well as many Vin bits and bobs I study a bit of fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, thermo fluid and thermo dynamics type stuff. I would like to do something relating to Vincent’s as they are incredibly well designed for performance and reliability. Furthermore many members of the club are very knowledgeable of these subjects.
I would like my project to be able to apply modern day knowledge of sciences such as CAD packages and materials to historic technology.
(like the imperial wraith has done with its use of girdrolic front forks made from new light weight materials to replace teles.)
However am not too excited by the prospect of dynamics, so therefore suspension is really a no no. (Which is a shame as I have some telescopic, Brampton’s and girdrolics sitting around at home which I could compare.)
If any race teams (2 or 3 wheelers) have any ideas I would be interested in trying to help develop and test any of your ideas possibly for streamliners or fairings?
Sorry this thread has become a bit wordy but I am a bit bogged down with it (and revision and looking for a summer job) I am trying to talk to my lecturers come up with my own ideas and look externally for ideas but I don’t really know which end to start from.
I basically need a project which will be fairly simple for me to start and research on my own at home over the summer, (so a space station is out the question.) But something which is open ended enough I cannot ever run out of things to discuss and will be able to keep interested in. It will be marked on its engineering / technical content, so plenty of maths physics and formulas.
Alex
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