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Postgraduate Research Opportunities

All Mechanical Engineering Postgraduate Projects Available

Postgraduate Research Project Opportunities

Projects are listed by broad research area.
The supervisors will be happy to provide further information regarding the projects in which you are interested.

Acoustics and Vibrations	Self-powered broadband monitoring sensors (Gutschmidt) Various acoustics research themes (Pearse)
Applied Mechanics	Reliability of Microelectronics Packaging (Wong) Damage Mechanism of Fibre Reinforced Plastic (Wong) Wind and Marine Renewable Energy (Wong) Computational mechanics and topology optimisation of porous scaffolds for bone-interfacing implants (Woodfield)
Biomedical	Active Insulin Control and Monitoring (Chase) Mechanical Ventilation Modelling and Optimisation (Chase) Sedation-Agitation Sensor for Intubated Patients in the ICU (Chase) Modelling and Control of the Sedation-Agitation Curve in ICU Patients (Chase) Physiological Systems Modelling (Chase) Airflow During Breathing Therapy for Adults and Babies (Jermy) Micro-Nano-Robotic Biomanipulation and BioMEMS/NEMS (Wang) Multi-therapeutic Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair (Woodfield) Development of Tissue Engineered Cartilage Constructs with Zonal Structure and Function (Woodfield) Smart scaffold design for the development of zonal Tissue Engineered Cartilage Constructs (Woodfield) Computational mechanics and topology optimisation of porous scaffolds for bone-interfacing implants (Woodfield)
Design
Energy and Thermodynamics	Wind and Marine Renewable Energy (Wong)
Fluid Dynamics	Self-propelling, Coalescing Droplets (Sellier) What interfaces hide? (Sellier)
Instrumentation, Dynamics and Control	Active Insulin Control and Monitoring (Chase) Mechanical Ventilation Modelling and Optimisation (Chase) Sedation-Agitation Sensor for Intubated Patients in the ICU (Chase) Modelling and Control of the Sedation-Agitation Curve in ICU Patients (Chase) Physiological Systems Modelling (Chase) Structural Health Monitoring and Adaptive Digital Filtering (Chase) Physiological Systems Modelling (Chase) Structural Dynamics and Control for Seismic and Other Cases (Chase) Self-powered broadband monitoring sensors (Gutschmidt) Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability of Piezoelectric Micro Beam Arrays with Applications to Scanning Force Microscopy (Gutschmidt) Global collective seismic dynamics of high-density buildings (Gutschmidt) Structure-ground interactions of a small-size cluster of civil structures (Gutschmidt) Wing Flutter Dynamics of WW1 Bi-Planes (Gutschmidt) Piezo Technology (sensors and actuators, ultrasonic motors) (Gutschmidt) Micro-Nano-Robotic Biomanipulation and BioMEMS/NEMS (Wang)
Manufacturing	Various manufacturing projects listed in UC Spark (Pons)
Materials Science and Engineering	Modelling Grain Boundaries in Strontium Titanate (Bishop) The Role of Complexions in Abnormal Grain Growth (Bishop) Reliability of Microelectronics Packaging (Wong) Damage Mechanism of Fibre Reinforced Plastic (Wong)