Project Themes
Students design, build, and control robotic platforms, drones, unmanned aerial systems, automotive and vehicle systems, and autonomous or semi-autonomous machines that operate in physical environments. Projects range from agricultural and delivery drones to search-and-rescue rovers, collaborative robots, FSAE racecar systems, and autonomous inspection platforms.
These projects center on software-driven systems that use machine learning, data analytics, predictive modeling, computer vision, or intelligent decision-making. Projects include AI-powered coaching and grading tools, gesture and sign language recognition, health data analysis platforms, music education software, and intelligent parking and video enhancement systems.
Sensor-enabled systems, embedded devices, cyber-physical systems, and networked monitoring platforms form the core of this theme. Projects include smart doorbells and doormats, RF and radar-based sensing, wildlife and occupancy monitoring, wearable safety and privacy devices, hive monitoring, respiration tracking, and agricultural sensing systems.
These projects develop technologies for clinical use, patient monitoring, imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutic intervention. Projects include electroporation catheters, pericardiocentesis simulators, biomarker sensors, cardiac telemetry devices, blood clot modeling, nanoparticle therapeutics, neurostimulation wearables, and bone analysis tools.
Focused on human movement, ergonomics, assistive devices, sports performance, and rehabilitation engineering, these projects address real-world challenges in physical health and accessibility. Projects include prosthetic biofeedback systems, assistive writing and mobility devices, wheelchair monitoring, golf and soccer performance tools, wearable fitness trackers, breathing and posture devices, and ergonomic assessment systems.
Projects in this theme tackle energy generation, storage, thermal management, renewable systems, power conversion technologies, and building energy efficiency. Projects include solar energy collectors, wind and hydrokinetic turbines, wave energy converters, biomass-to-energy and biofuel conversion systems, solar panel optimization, HVAC energy management, and regenerative braking systems.
Structural design, construction processes, transportation networks, and water management for built environments are at the heart of these projects. Projects include 5D BIM modeling and simulation, high-rise building structural design, construction scheduling, traffic impact analysis, bridge foundation design, stormwater management, and indoor navigation systems.
From additive manufacturing to precision instrumentation, these projects push the boundaries of advanced materials, fabrication systems, mechanical testing, and structural systems. Projects include 3D printing systems, tensile and flexural testing machines, carbon fiber pressure vessels, auxetic metamaterials, electrospray deposition, ceramic and polymer characterization, and automated quality inspection.
Green fuel synthesis, sustainable chemical processes, biomanufacturing systems, reaction engineering, and molecular-scale process design drive the projects in this theme. Projects include green methanol production from waste and biomass, urea synthesis from CO₂, sustainable conversion of bioethanol-derived emissions into green chemicals, in-vitro tissue and wound models, and electroactive bio-material fabrication.
Aerodynamics, propulsion technologies, flight systems, high-speed flows, space systems, and atmospheric testing platforms define the scope of these projects. Projects include rocket engine and nozzle design, Hall effect thrusters, fixed-wing and flapping-wing aircraft, hypersonic shock tunnels, wind tunnel testing, lunar rovers and airlocks, and aeroelastic vibration isolation.