MIE Undergraduate Research Thesis (MIE498 H/Y)

Enrollment Procedure:

1. Find a supervisor and a thesis topic/project: You can review the available thesis topics/projects below or you can independently contact MIE faculty members who you are interested in working with. The website will be updated with project submissions as they become available.
2. Once you have found a faculty member who will supervise you, submit the Thesis Enrollment Form to the MIE Undergraduate Office at undergrad@mie.utoronto.ca. Ensure that your supervisor signs the form.
3. Attach a 1-page outline of the project you plan to undertake.
   a. Explain how the research project builds upon one or more aspects of engineering science introduced in the student’s academic program
   b. Provide an estimate of a level of effort not less than 130 productive hours of work per term
   c. Specify a deliverable in each term to be submitted by the last day of lectures
4. Final submission date for the Thesis topic forms: 5 business days prior the last day to add courses
   
   1. If approved, your research thesis will be added to your transcript on ACORN by the MIE UG Office. If it is not approved, we will notify you by email.

Note: Approval to register for the fourth-year thesis course (MIE498H1 or MIE498Y1) must be obtained from the Associate Chair – Undergraduate and is normally restricted to fourth year students with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.7.

• A Semantic Parser to Convey Negation Meanings
• Development of an Integrated System for Characterization of Artificial Muscles
• Efficient Evaluation of CAD Skill in Individual Users
• Exploring the Presence and Cause of Manufacturing Fixation Design in Novice Mechanical Engineers
• Quaternion-Based Attitude Control of a Solar Sail
• Review and Advancements of Truncated-Correlation Photothermal Coherence Tomography
• The Investigation of Generative Adversarial Networks for the Generation of Synthetic Computer Tomography Data from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Images for Applications

Materials:

• 2023-2024 Thesis Handbook
• 2023-2024 Thesis Enrollment Form
• One-Page Proposal Template
• Progress Report Template
• MIE498 Final Thesis Report Template
• MIE498 Final Grade Submission Form
• MIE498 Grading Rubric

Available Projects:

Date Added	Open to	Term Offered	Research Area	Research Topic
11-Dec-23	Industrial	Winter	Operations Research	Analyzing and improving network clustering and community detection algorithms using discrete optimization
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Human Factors	Building Driver Drowsiness Detection and Intervention Systems
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Human Factors	Driver Distraction Monitoring and Intervention Systems
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Human Factors	Driving simulator study on automated vehicles
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Human Factors	Scoping review on visual attention and driving automation
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Robotics	Ai-Embedded Robotics
11-Dec-23	Mechanical	Winter	Materials	Omniphobic spray coating
11-Dec-23	Mechanical	Winter	Mechanics & Design, Aerospace Engineering	Blade Shedding in Gas Turbine Engines
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Materials	Green Hydrogen, Super critical extraction, e-machine Design, New PowerTrain, Battery, Fuel cell
11-Dec-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Winter	Human Factors	Overcoming Social Conformity
02-Aug-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Fall & Winter	Human Factors / Information Engineering	Overcoming Misinformation/Disinformation
02-Aug-23	Industrial	Fall & Winter	Human Factors	Equity and AI Informed User Experience Design and Evaluation
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Mechanics & Design	Aircraft Design
02-Aug-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Fall & Winter	Materials / Energy	Non-Destructive Diffusion-wave Techniques and Imaging for Solar Cells and Clean Energy Conversion Optoelectronic Devices
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Bioengineering	Near infrared blood oxygenation of biomaterials and tissues for disease diagnosis using differential wavelength modulated thermophotonic imaging
02-Aug-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Fall & Winter	Materials / Energy	Dynamic Imaging of Solar Cell Optoelectronic Quality using a Near-Infrared Camera
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials / Energy	Fuel Cells Electroplated
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials / Energy	Fuel Cells Stack Modeling
02-Aug-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Fall & Winter	Robotics	Ai-Embedded Robotics
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Information Engineering	Machine Learning and Data Management
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Information Engineering	Deep Learning
02-Aug-23	Mechanical	Winter	Mechanics & Design - Sensing	Monitoring Wind Turbine Blades
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Highly Efficient Passive Cooling Structures via Nano-layering
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Bio-inspired Ultra-Strong and Tough Hybrid Composites via Micro-structuring
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Transforming Polymer Waste into High-Value Carbon Products and Composites: A Sustainable Solution
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Subcutaneous Vein Detection and Mapping for Home Hemodialysis Self-cannulation
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Applied Machine Learning	Polymer Microstructure Design and Foaming Optimization via Machine Learning (ML)
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Optimizing the Microstructure of Bioplastic PLA with Lignocellulosic Biobased Nanofibrils
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Micro-structuring of Artificial Nacre Structures via Laser-induced Graphene
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	In-situ Multi-optical Visualization of Phase Change of Polymer/Supercritical Fluid Mixture
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Highly Stretchable and Self-Healable Organic Semiconductors for Health Monitoring Wearable Sensor
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Lightweighting of Elastomeric Polymers for Flexible Foam Applications
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Fabricating Hierarchically Structured Carbon Aerogels from Sustainable Biomaterials
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Deep insight into reverse osmosis membrane compaction and characterization using microscopy imaging techniques
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials	Conductive polymer composites for Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) shielding application
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Winter	Mechanics & Design	Monitoring wind turbine blades
12-Jul-23	Industrial	Fall & Winter	Operations Research / Applied Machine Learning	Workload prediction for radiotherapy
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Thermofluids	Modeling of drop evaporation
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Thermofluids	Application of droplets and sprays in different fields, including in fuel injection systems, powder formation in pharma, aerosols, vapes, and inhalers.
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials / Thermofluids	Fibre fragmentation and release: mechanics, imaging, and analysis
12-Jul-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Fall & Winter	Robotics	List of Topics
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Materials / Thermofluids	Non-Destructive Diffusion-wave Techniques and Imaging for Solar Cells and Clean Energy Conversion Optoelectronic Devices
12-Jul-23	Mechanical & Industrial	Fall & Winter	Robotics	Ai-Embedded Robotics
12-Jul-23	Mechanical	Fall & Winter	Mechanics & Design	Aircraft Design

Research projects are added on an ongoing basis, please check back often!