1. Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017
Agenda
Eligibility for the Graduate Project
How to Initiate a Project Proposal
Project Procedure and Deadlines
Available Projects in the Department
Deliverables
Q & A
Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017

2. Eligibility for the Graduate Project
Have completed 15 units
Have an approved Candidacy form
Have a continuing student status
Not be on Probation
NOTE: ME department web site has a lot of information regarding the graduate project course.
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3. How to Initiate a Project Proposal
Step 1: Decide which area of mechanical engineering interests you and you would like do your project in it.
Step 2: Contact a full-time faculty member in the department who specializes in that area and select him/her as your committee adviser/chair
Step 3: Decide on the topic of the project
Step 4: Write the project proposal with the help of your advisor
Step 5: Consult your advisor and select two additional faculty members to serve on your project committee
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4. Project Procedure and Deadlines
Current Semester
5/16/2017: Last Day of instructions
Define project objective and secure agreement from committee chair
Fall Semester
8/23/2017: First Day of Fall 2017 Classes
Draft full proposal and secure agreement from full committee
9/6/2017: Last Day to Drop Courses
Finalize proposal, have the committee members evaluate and sign the evaluation form, submit in the ME office
9/8/2017: Attend the Project meeting and receive the add code
NOTE: Add codes will be given out on 9/8/17 during an orientation meeting. Absolutely no late adds will be allowed after the university Add deadline on 9/13/17
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5. Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017
Deliverables
Final report
Report Draft is due before the Oral Exam
A copy of the Final Report is due in the ME office by the last day of the final exams
NOTE: Final report must be approved and signed by the committee chair
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6. Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017
Deliverables
2. Oral Exam
All Oral presentations will be scheduled by the ME office and posted on the poster boards outside the ME office.
Submit a draft copy of your final report prior to making the Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation for the first term projects are 30-minutes long.
Check with your project advisor for the format of the presentation
Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017

7. Project Procedure and Deadlines
Action items:
Project proposal evaluated and approved by the advisory committee members
Attaché the evaluation form and project proposal coversheet to the proposal and submit it in the ME office to Lilly.
Attend the 9/8/17 Orientation meeting and receive add code for the course.
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8. Available Projects in the Department
Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017

9. Thermal-Fluids MS Projects with Dr. Okamoto
Effect of free-stream turbulence intensity on PCB heat transfer (joint project with Dr. Gosselin
Development of instructional videos and materials to teach IcePack (an ANSYS CFD code) in ME 182 Thermal Systems Design (joint project with Dr. Thurlow)
Setup of a JEDEC standard wind tunnel and lab experiment
Determination of cost savings using variable speed fans for cooling servers (experimental or analytical or both)
Thermal-fluid project related to your employment

10. Applying Maximum Entropy Deconvolution to Abel Inversion – Dr. Gosselin
Goal: develop an improved Abel inversion algorithm that utilizes maximum entropy method to minimize error when imaging axisymmetric flames
95% computational, 5% experimental
Skills: Matlab, strong math background
Required courses: ME 230, ME 210, ME 273 or 297 (FEA or CFD)
1 publication possible

11. Surface-Mount Retrofitting Strategies for Improved Cross-Ventilation
Goal: explore geometries of surface-mount retrofitting for improving cross-flow natural ventilation in the presence of turbulence
2 related projects: 1 computational, 1 experimental
Skills: LabView (exp.), CFD (comp.)
Required courses: ME 211, ME 297 (for comp. project), undergraduate fluid mechanics
1-2 publications possible
Bangalee, M.Z.I., Miau, J.J., Lin, S.Y., Yang, J.H., Flow visualization, PIV measurement and CFD calculation for fluid-driven natural cross-ventilation in a scale model. Energy Build. 66, 306–314.

12. ME295A/B – Available MS Projects
Winncy Du

13. Wearable Sensor Array for Brain Research and Mental Disorder Diagnosis
Big concern in the nation; Cost for detecting/treating is very high
Reliable diagnosis methods/uncover hidden or silent brain diseases
Brain filtering function; bone conduction
Neuroscience
Neuron activities
Mechanical Engineering
Experiment setup
Acoustic chamber
Material selection
Ultrason/Acoustics sensors
Electrical & Computer
Testing circuitry
Interface
Data acquisition
Programming
Control

14. Metabolic Monitoring and Disorder Diagnosis -- Collaborate with KWJ
Food effects
Exercise effects
Environmental effects
Understand Metabolic System
Take data from human samples
Analyze data to find certain patterns
Sensors
NO, CO2, H2S, O2
Testing circuitry
Interface
Data acquisition

15. Food Safety Monitor using Sensor Technologies
Obtain a basic knowledge on food contamination sources and types
Identify a typical problem/bacteria
Design and build a fast, effective, and accurate food safety monitor (mechanical system, sensors, data analysis/processing, interface & integration, final testing)

16. Study of Human Body based Electrical and Magnetic Features
Biomagnetics
Electricity

17. Other Projects Robotics Entertainments Home automation Robotic chief
Hiking gears

18. Available Projects
Vimal Viswanathan

19. Modeling & Design of Multipurpose Products
Functional & mathematical modeling of existing products
Identification of common sub-functions and interfaces shared across main functions
Mathematical modeling of charecterestics
Pre-requisite: Expertise in Matlab
Contact:

20. User Experience Modeling for Environmentally Friendly Products
Analysis of user reviews of environmentally friendly products
Develop a method to mathematically model these reviews and derive useful information for design
Expertise needed: Matlab
Contact:

21. Modification & Control of the Nozzle Movement in 3D Printing
Understand the control of the nozzle in a 3D printer
Modify it to achieve certain deposition characteristics
Pre-requisites: controls design, materials testing, g-codes (or willingness to learn), solid modeling (Soildworks / Creo)
Contact:

22. Development of Concept Network for Basic Engineering Courses
Engineering Education Project
Preparation of concept tree for a variety of engineering courses (for now, in design)
Preparation of course videos
Pre-requisites: expertise in design & strength of materials related courses, solid modeling (Solidworks / Creo)
Contact:

23. MSME Research Projects
Mechanical Engineering Department
ME295A/299
Fall 2017
Professor Raymond K. Yee

24. Mechanical Arm Control System Design
Drones recently have become popular in recreational, commercial, and law enforcement monitoring applications.
Propeller arms lack capability in extension & retraction to counteract unstable situation when flying in air.
Objective: Design and build a functional mechanical arm prototype with control system for drone design to enhance stability during drone operation.
Expertise: mechatronics and mechanical design.
Sample

25. Parametric Study of 3D Metal Printing Processes
Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology for metal parts also commonly known as “3D Metal Printing” has been received a lot of attentions in recent years. Recently GE Aviation has announced that the company plans to invest 3.5 billion dollars for developing this technology for production use. While many other industry sectors such as biomedical field would like to use this technology for their applications, the AM process control and its effects on fabricated parts have not been well understood. It has been observed that AM metal parts have a number of material abnormalities such as lack of fusion, porosities, and micro‐cracks formation due to its residual stresses from the process.
In a typical AM process, laser or electron‐beam is used as a heating source to fuse metal powders together to form the geometry of a part. Several key AM process parameters such as metal powder feed rate, heat source power, heat source travel speed, heat spot size, travel pattern, and substrate temperature etc. may have strong influence on microstructure variability, material abnormalities, and strength of a fabricated part.
Objectives:
To perform a parametric study of key AM process parameters using finite element simulation.
To quantify their effects on residual stresses in a simulated part.
To identify the optimal process parameter values for 3D titanium printing
Expertise: FEM (ANSYS), APDL (Ansys Parametric Design Language), Thermal-mechanical interaction process.
3D Metal Printer
3D metal print samples

26. Heat Transfer Interface to Graphitic Foam
Sponsor: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA
Funding: Paid hours per week for 1 year (up to $10K), paid traveling expenses to present the results at an oversea conference.
Research: Silicon Trackers for High Energy Physics Detectors are moving to large area of active silicon at high power density (20m2 dissipating up to 1W/cm2 ). These detectors use a bi-phase CO2 cooling systems. The tubes selected for the evaporators are ~2mm diameter 100um wall titanium tubes. Cooling is critical to these detectors. Graphitic foam (glassy carbon foam coated with graphene) is used to transfer heat from the large area of the silicon modules to the small area of the tubes. The foam to tube interface is the most critical due to the high flux
The tube is installed in a milled ‘tight fit’ groove. Foam ligands do not ‘cut’ they break, so there is a stochastic distribution of distances of ligand ends to tube, some touch. The graphene coating in direct contact with the tube can yield 40-60% of the heat transfer in current designs. Adding a conductive adhesive (current candidate graphite filled) with some penetration into the foam improves this by including additional ligands and stabilizes the joint. (See sample)

27. LBNL Project Continued
Research Objectives: Optimize ligand density for the foam, graphene thickness, and adhesive penetration for achieving good thermal conductivity.
Foam supplier:
Project goal: To improve the thermal conductivity of this interface by a factor of The outcome will be a paper published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (NIM-A) or relevant conference proceedings.
Skills needed: Heat Transfer knowledge, FEM, and Stochastic (Statistical) Modeling, MATLab

28. Available Projects in the Department
Check the following web site for a list of topics available in the department.
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29. Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017
Q & A
Graduate Projects Meeting April 14, 2017