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<blockquote data-quote="champion" data-source="post: 16034" data-attributes="member: 443"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Hello VOC, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ergo, <strong> I wanted to ask anyone who is remotely Engineering based, if they had any recommendations for some good dissertation titles? </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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:</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Air flow through a Push bike helmet</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Suspension for a mountain bike</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Joining and manufacture techniques for a pushbike: Bambo to Steel.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">improve the efficiency of a thermo acoustic resonator</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Study the uses of CANBUS for a road car.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Design an eligible Cylinder head for an Italian 1950s race bike (Is one for M-Eng students.)</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I would like my project to be able to apply modern day knowledge of sciences such as CAD packages and materials to historic technology. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">(like the imperial wraith has done with its use of girdrolic front forks made from new light weight materials to replace teles.)</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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.)</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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?</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Alex</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champion, post: 16034, member: 443"] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Hello VOC, [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Ergo, [B] I wanted to ask anyone who is remotely Engineering based, if they had any recommendations for some good dissertation titles? [/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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:[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]· [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Air flow through a Push bike helmet[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]· [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Suspension for a mountain bike[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]· [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Joining and manufacture techniques for a pushbike: Bambo to Steel.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]· [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]improve the efficiency of a thermo acoustic resonator[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]· [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Study the uses of CANBUS for a road car.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]· [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]Design an eligible Cylinder head for an Italian 1950s race bike (Is one for M-Eng students.)[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]I would like my project to be able to apply modern day knowledge of sciences such as CAD packages and materials to historic technology. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4](like the imperial wraith has done with its use of girdrolic front forks made from new light weight materials to replace teles.)[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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.)[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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?[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=4]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 [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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