Project Ideas for Students

Usage of heavier materials in various fields has led to a lot of fuel consumption. It has been a challenge for material engineers to come up with designs and materials that are lighter and yet better in terms of physical characteristics. This has called for researches into material development for the production of lighter materials of the same or even superior mechanical properties to the existing materials in this area of applications. This project work is dedicated to the study of the mechanical behavior of glass and epoxy composite materials through physical experimentation like tensile, compression, impact and flexural test to understand the composite behavior on a pin on disk machine.

Retard-bonded prestressed concrete has been in use for twenty years and is a new and distinctive prestressed system. Mechanical and service property

Wind turbines are considered to be 59% efficient but the construction of a feasible wind turbine is very costly since we have to maintain the large spacing between two turbines and the size is exceptionally very large.

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) is an integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators and electronics on a common silicon substrate through microfabrication technology.

Generally, scissors are used for simple paper cutting. It is a method which results in wastage of papers because of mistakes such as wrong dimensions etc., and also even a simple cutting may take a long time. Hydraulic machines are also available for paper cutting. But it is used only for heavy paper cutting & sheet metal cutting in large industries and its cost is very high. To resolve this problem, you are going to build a pneumatic system which will be rather easy to build but also work effectively during paper cutting.

As the increasing demand for Heavy Duty Diesel Engine is increasing in transportation we will require a good emission control in

The aerodynamic properties of a cricket ball can greatly be affected by the prominence of the seam, the surface roughness of the ball in play, and the launch attitude of the ball by the bowler. Based on seam angle and surface roughness of the ball, an asymmetric airflow over the ball due to pressure difference can be generated thereby deviating the flight from the intended path. This potential flight deviation is called swing. Therefore, it is extremely important to understand the aerodynamic properties of used cricket balls as wear and tear can have a major effect on the swing. The primary objectives of this work were to understand the aerodynamic properties of a series of used cricket balls, thus the mechanism of swing as well as the drag of a cricket ball.

A hammer is a tool or device that delivers a blow (a sudden impact) to an object. Most hammers are hand tools used to drive nails, fit parts, forge metal, and break apart objects. Hammers vary in shape, size, and structure, depending on their purposes. Hammering is the most widely used industrial as well as construction activity. The hammering of screws, metal sheets, metal parts etc. requires a lot of time and effort. So, to minimize the time and effort here you are going to build an automated hammering system.

Activated carbon has been there with us for centuries. It has wide applications in various industries e.g. in the water-treatment, dye, sugar refining, among others. All the activated carbon available in Kenya is imported. Therefore, production of activated carbons locally and from locally available materials would be one of the most lucrative and environment-friendly solutions to this as it would transform negative–valued wastes to valuable materials. Thus, the main objective of this project is to prepare activated carbons from coconut shells using a two-step method and to establish the optimum conditions of production.

Analytical solutions give exact solutions that can be used to study the behavior of the system with varying properties. Unfortunately, very few practical systems lead to analytical solutions, and again the use of analytical solutions is of limited use because of its difficulty. That’s why we use a numerical approach to make a close answer to practical result with ease and convenience. Recently there is a lot of research going on in this field. Doing a project in this field will give you an advantage over others. In this project, you are going to write your own code to solve a one-dimensional nozzle problem using numerical approach and you have to find out the properties of fluid flowing through the nozzle along its length.