Student Research Opportunities - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

There are many opportunities for students to get involved with the groundbreaking research conducted by over 50 research groups at MIE.

Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering students interested in working with research groups or pursuing a thesis project may:

browse research opportunities in the table below, including thesis projects.
contact faculty members directly to inquire about research opportunities or potential thesis project supervision.

Master of Engineering (MEng) students interested in pursuing an MEng project may:

browse available MEng projects in the table below. For MEng Multidisplinary Projects (MMP) please contact Matthesa Gregg directly to apply.
contact faculty members directly to inquire about research opportunities or potential thesis project supervision.

Master of Applied Science (MASc) and PhD students conduct research with the support of their supervisor.

Interested postdoctoral candidates can explore the Postdoctoral Fellows Portal or browse open positions on our Careers page.

Prospective graduate students interested in getting involved in research at MIE should review our Programs Overview page.

Research Projects

Date Added	Title	Contact	Research Area	Program
Fall 2020	Project Title: Systems Improvements at the Provincial Forensic Pathology Unit	Interested students should send a brief statement of interest, resume and unofficial undergrad and grad transcripts to: mcp@mie.utoronto.ca	Mechanics and Design	MEng Multidisciplinary Project
Fall 2020	Project Title: Analysis of Origami-Inspired Metamaterials using Digital Image Correlation	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Summer 2020	Project Title: Design of open-source ventilator controller	Kamran Behdinan (contact Matthesa Gregg directly to apply) Deadline: Wed. June 17, 2020	Mechanics and Design	MEng Multidisciplinary Project
Summer 2020	Project Title: Analysis and Assessment of Open Source Standalone Ventilators	Kamran Behdinan (contact Matthesa Gregg directly to apply) Deadline: Mon. June 15, 2020	Mechanics and Design	MEng Multidisciplinary Project
Summer 2020	Project Title: Analysis and Assessment of Open Source HALO Ventilators	Kamran Behdinan (contact Matthesa Gregg directly to apply) Deadline: Mon. June 15, 2020	Mechanics and Design	MEng Multidisciplinary Project
Winter 2020	Toilet of the future	Kamran Behdinan (contact Matthesa Gregg directly to apply) Deadline: Jan 31, 2020	Mechanics and Design	MEng Multidisciplinary Project
Fall 2019	Data-driven modelling of the decision of patients who leave the emergency department without being seen	Vahid Sarhangian	Operations Research	MEng Project
Fall 2019	Lattice Boltzman Method applied to Aerodynamic control on a low Reynolds airfoil with realistic synthetic jet geometries	Pierre Sullivan	Thermofluids	MEng Project
N/A	Optimization of a catheter tip design to maximize visibility in the aorta	Edgar Acosta	Computational Fluid Dynamics	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Evaluating the impact of workflow communication tools on the Gamma Knife workflow at the Odette Cancer Centre	Dionne Aleman	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Model Refinement and Validation in Simulation-based Design Optimization	Cristina Amon	Thermofluids	MEng Project
N/A	Simulation of Wind Turbine Wakes using CFD Techniques	Cristina Amon	Thermofluids	MEng Project
N/A	Transistor-Level Transient Modelling of Thermal Transport in Electronic Devices	Cristina Amon	Thermofluids	MEng Project
Fall 2018	A Machine Learning System to Optimize the Performance of Spray Nozzles	Nasser Ashgriz	Thermofluids	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Characterizing the Breakup of a Liquid Droplet	Nasser Ashgriz	Thermofluids	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Development of Pharmaceutical Aerosols	Nasser Ashgriz	Thermofluids	MEng Project
N/A	Job Shop Scheduling Problems and Mixed Integer Programming Pre-solvers	Christopher Beck	Information Engineering	MEng Project
N/A	Scheduling in Queueing Network Environments with Flexible Servers and Setup Times	Christopher Beck	Information Engineering	MEng Project
N/A	Robotic Vision, Mobile Robotics, 5-axis Milling Machine Design - Contact Instructor for more details	Beno Benhabib	Robotics	MEng Project
N/A	Operations Research, Optimization, Radiation Therapy, Healthcare Operations - Contact Instructor for more details	Timothy Chan	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Monte Carlo Simulation of the Impact of Distributional Properties on the Effectiveness of Cluster Boosted Regression	Mark H. Chignell	Information Engineering	MEng Project
N/A	Data Management and the Web, Analytics, Information Retrieval and Visualization, Data Modeling and Business Process Engineering, Healthcare Data Management - Contact Instructor for more details	Mariano Consens	Information Engineering	MEng Project
N/A	Large Scale Data Analytics and Visualization	Mariano Consens	Information Engineering	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Fabrication and Testing of Medical Microrobots	Eric Diller	Robotics	MEng Project
N/A	Micro-mechanical characterization of solid 3rd bodies created in dry lubricated contact within space mechanisms	Tobin Filleter	Materials	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Ontologies for Representing and Measuring City Performance (multiple projects)	Mark Fox	Information Engineering	MEng Project
Fall 2018	An Ontology for Building Management and Evacuation	Mark Fox	Information Engineering	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Smart Cities: Intelligent Agents for the Urban Operating System (multiple projects)	Mark Fox	Information Engineering	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Handheld bioprinter design for deposition of multilayered engineered skin grafts	Axel Guenther	Thermofluids	MEng Project
N/A	Experimental and Numerical Studies of Fluid Properties and Measurements	David James	Thermofluids	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Finding Yourself in Virtual Reality Navigation Task	Greg Jamieson	Human Factors	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - Various projects dealing with materials-processing-microstructure-property relationships for component designs to be used in clean energy applications. Contact Instructor for more details	Olivera Kesler	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Solid oxide fuel cells, high-efficiency electrolysis, oxygen separation membranes, clean energy - Contact Instructor for more details	Olivera Kesler	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Machine learning to classify underpayment claims	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Reinforcement learning for optimal inventory rationing	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Optimal waiting time quotation	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Matching shippers and carriers with constraints - Heuristic algorithm is to be developed to optimally match shippers and carriers over time considering service requirements. Contact Instructor for more details	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Resource sharing in healthcare system - Quantitative analysis of the benefits from shared resources in healthcare system when the demands are uncertain. Contact Instructor for more details	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Nonparametric methods for reinforcement learning	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Dynamic correlations in bond portfolios	Chi-Guhn Lee	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Artificial Neural networks for Israeli option valuation	Chi-Guhn Lee	Machine Learning, Finance	MEng Project
N/A	Hedging Israeli options	Chi-Guhn Lee	Finance	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Polymer/Composite Coextrusion Foaming	Patrick Lee	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Visualization of Plastic Crystallization and Foaming Behaviors under Stress	Patrick Lee	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Nanofibers Enhanced Strain Hardening of Linear Polymer	Patrick Lee	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Fabrication and Testing of Stretchable Conductive Electrodes for Soft Robotics	Xinyu Liu	Fluid Mechanics	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Design and Control of A Soft Wall-Climbing Robot	Xinyu Liu	Fluid Mechanics	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Design and Testing of a Microfluidic Device for Cancer Cell Studies	Xinyu Liu	Fluid Mechanics	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Paper-Based Microfluidic Biosensors	Xinyu Liu	Fluid Mechanics	MEng Project
N/A	Multiproject job scheduling	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Implementation of SPC and DE Techniques in Automotive Industry	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	SPC and DE for Process Improvement with a Practical Application	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Quality Control and Improvement Using Lean Six Sigma Approach	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Transmission Oil Data Modeling for Condition-Based Maintenance Decision-Making	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Development of models for bus fleet maintenance and replacement	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Development of a Stochastic Dynamic Model for a Make-to-Order Production System	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Optimal scheduling of repairs for several production facilities	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	MEng Project
N/A	Non-Destructive Diffusion-wave Techniques and Imaging for Solar Cells and Clean Energy Conversion Optoelectronic Devices	Andreas Mandelis (with Dr. Alexander Melnikov)	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
N/A	Dynamic Imaging of Solar Cell Optoelectronic Quality using a Near-Infrared Camera	Andreas Mandelis	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
N/A	Wearable Technologies for Digital Eye Glass (computerized seeing and memory aid) with health monitor	Steve Mann		MEng Project
N/A	Birdstrike and Novel Design of Fan Blades	Shaker Meguid	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Design, Analysis and Development of Micro Gas Turbine for propulsion of Micro UAVs	Shaker Meguid	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Design, Analysis and Optimisation of Novel Morphing Chevron Nozzle in Gas Turbine Engines	Shaker Meguid	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Morphing Wing Design for UAV	Shaker Meguid	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Self Health Monitoring	Shaker Meguid	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2020	Development of Environmentally Benign Nanocomposite with Thermal Stability	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2020	Development of new thermoplastic composites for applications under extreme conditions	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Smart Materials Based Environmental Sensing	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Investigation of the Processing Parameters of Functionally Graded Closed-Cell Bio-Compatible Cellular Materials	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Project 4: Investigation of the Processing Parameters of Biocomposites Materials	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Functionalized Porous-Carbon Composite with Attached Metal Nanoparticles for CO2/CO Capture and Utilization	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Development of thermoplastic composites for high pressure and temperature applications	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Multifunctional Nano Porous Organic Aerogels with Enhanced Mechanical & Physical Properties	Hani Naguib	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Robots learning their behaviors	Goldie Nejat	Robotics	MEng Project
N/A	Service and Assistive Robotics, Social and Personal Robots, Robot Sensory Systems, AI and Control, and Human-Robot Interaction - Contact Instructor for more details	Goldie Nejat	Robotics	MEng Project
N/A	CAD models and design reviews: survey data analysis	Alison Olechowski	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Injection Foam Molding of Polymer Nanocomposites	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Visualization of Plastic Foaming Process in Injection Foam Molding	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Polymer based silica aerogel production and optimization for thermal insulation applications	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Fundamental studies on cellular structure development in foam injection molding process	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Low-density extrusion foaming of engineering polymers	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Hybrid nanofibrillar polymeric composites with improved physical-mechanical properties	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Production of nanocomposite with tailored properties	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Functional Nanofiber-Reinforced Nanocomposites Foams for Wearable Electronics	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	The development of high performance EMI shielding materials for next generation wearable electronics	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Production of flexible thin film aerogel	Chul Park	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Applying lead-user methods to identify and overcome obstacles to environmentally significant behavior. - Contact Instructor for more details	Li Shu	Human Factors & Ergonomics	MEng Project
N/A	Nuclear power plant design and operations, materials evaluation, nondestructive testing, signal processing - Contact Instructor for more details	Anthony Sinclair	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Artificial photosynthesis: Design materials to convert CO2 into hydrocarbons	Chandra Singh		MEng Project
N/A	Damage and failure analysis of wind turbine composite blades	Chandra Singh		MEng Project
N/A	Nanomechanics of graphene-polymer nanocomposites	Chandra Singh		MEng Project
N/A	Ultrastrong, ultralight nanocrystalline hybrid materials for future aerospace technologies	Chandra Singh		MEng Project
Fall 2018	Silicon on Insulator (SOI) for high temperature pressure measurements	Pierre Sullivan	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
Fall 2018	Comparison of image processing options for microarrays	Pierre Sullivan	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
Fall 2018	GPU based particle image velocimetry	Pierre Sullivan	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
N/A	Design and construction of a medical device (urethro-vesical stapler)	Yu Sun	Mechanics and Design	MEng Project
N/A	Solar Chimney with Wind Catcher in High-Rise Multi-Unit Residential Buildings	Marianne Touchie	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
N/A	Bio-oil use in burners and engines	Murray Thomson	Thermal Sciences	MEng Project
N/A	Investigating First-year Engineering Student Resilience	Chirag Variawa		MEng Project
N/A	Data Analysis and Strategic Development: Engineering Student Workload	Chirag Variawa		MEng Project
N/A	Design and Fabrication of a Microfluidic Device for Tissue Engineering	Lidan You	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Design and modelling of a lung-on-a-chip airflow system for studying particle inhalation and deposition in airways	Young, Edmond	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Design and fabrication of 3D-printed interconnects and manifolds for open microfluidic devices	Young, Edmond	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Advanced manufacturing and novel materials for biomicrofluidic and organ-on-a-chip systems	Young, Edmond	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Design considerations for multi-organ microphysiological systems	Young, Edmond	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
Winter 2019	Design and development of a portable organ-on-a-chip incubator	Young, Edmond	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Studying Wetting Properties of Different Coatings	Prof. Chandra & Prof. Nejad	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	MEng project with specialty LED lighting manufacturer	Professors J.K. Spelt and F. Azhari	Mechanics and Materials	MEng Project
N/A	Minimization of a makespan for multiproject job scheduling	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	Undergraduate
N/A	Application of SPC and DE in Automotive Industry	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	Undergraduate
N/A	Development of a Stochastic Dynamic Model for a Make-to-Order Production System	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	Undergraduate
N/A	Quality Control and Improvement Using Lean Six Sigma Approach	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	Undergraduate
N/A	Optimal scheduling of repairs for several production facilities considering a single repair crew	Viliam Makis	Operations Research	Undergraduate
N/A	Conducting Polymer Based Pressure Sensors for smart Skin Applications	Hani Naguib	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Development of shape memory materials actuator for soft robotics applications	Hani Naguib	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Smart Materials Based Environmental Sensing	Hani Naguib	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	The development of high performance EMI shielding materials for next generation wearable electronics	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Foaming behavior of immiscible polymer blends in a gas assisted foam injection molding process	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Functional Nanofiber-Reinforced Nanocomposites Foams for Wearable Electronics	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Hybrid nanofibrillar polymeric composites with improved physical-mechanical properties	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Impact of model foam processing into the physical chemistry of various polyolefin	Patrick C. Lee	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Investigating the foaming behaviour of branched and linear Nylon	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	A microfluidic system for cancer cell biology	Xinyu Liu	Thermofluids	Undergraduate
N/A	Design and control of a soft robot	Xinyu Liu	Robotics	Undergraduate
N/A	Fabrication and Testing of Stretchable Conductive Electrodes	Xinyu Liu	Robotics	Undergraduate
N/A	Paper-based microfluidic biosensors	Xinyu Liu	Robotics	Undergraduate
N/A	Tailoring polymer property by developing in-situ nanofibrils	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	System for Investigating Foam Processing Methods under High Pressure (P) and High Temperature (T)	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Production of nanocomposite with tailored properties	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Production of flexible thin film aerogel	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Nanocomposites with exfoliated graphene nanoplatelets	Chul B. Park	Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Dynamic flow delivery in microfluidic system	Lidan You	Mechanics and Materials	Undergraduate
N/A	Development of a Catheter for Photoacoustic Endoscopy Imaging of Coronary Artery Lipids	Andreas Mandelis	Thermofluids	Undergraduate
N/A	Investigation of learning methods and collaboration strategies in Multi User Computer Aided Design tools	Alison Olechowski	Mechanics and Design	Undergraduate
N/A	Hardware Accelerated Exact Optimization	J. Christopher Beck		Undergraduate
2018-2019	Polymer Composite Coextrusion Foaming	Patrick Lee	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Small Animal Imaging	Andreas Mandelis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Thermophotonic Dynamic Imaging	Andreas Mandelis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Dynamic Imaging of Solar Cell	Andreas Mandelis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Evaluation of the Mechanical Performance	Andreas Mandelis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Minimization of a makespan	Villiam Makis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Application of SPC and DE	Villiam Makis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Development of a Stochastic Dynamic Model	Villiam Makis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Quality Control and Improvement	Villiam Makis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Optimal Scheduling for repairs	Villiam Makis	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Civilian use of a novel augmented reality navigation display	Greg A. Jamieson	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Machine learning classification of mental state	Greg A. Jamieson	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Product Design for Pro Environmental Behavior	Prof. L Shu	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Simulating the impact of brain lesions on the communication between memory and oculomotor systems	Prof. L Shu	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	ML-led microfluidics to optimize industrial fluid formulations	David Sinton	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	A microfluidic platform for the treatment of infertility	David Sinton	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Improving a Bayesian optimization method for small-scale hydro energy harvesters	Amy Bilton	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Classifying valid simulations during optimization for automated design using computational fluid dynamics models	Amy Bilton	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Silicon on Insulator (SOI) for high temperature pressure measurements	Pierre E. Sullivan	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Comparison of image processing options for microarrays	Pierre E. Sullivan	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	GPU based particle image velocimetry	Pierre E. Sullivan	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Dispersion and Distribution of BNNTs	Azadeh Zandieh	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Synthesis and characterization of Polymer-based aerogels	Solmaz Karamikamkar	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Hybrid nanofibrillar polymeric composites with improved physical-mechanical properties	Iman Soltani, PhD	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Confining graphene at the continuous interface in multi-percolated polymer blend systems	Jun Wang	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Development of computational models for scaling up of sponge-based wastewater filtration system	Pavani Cherukupally	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Development of bio based and bio inspired materials and composites	Hani Naguib	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Multifunctional Nano Porous Organic Aerogels with Enhanced Mechanical & Physical Properties	Hani Naguib	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Development of thermoplastic composites for high pressure and temperature applications	Hani Naguib	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	The Google Docs of CAD Fully synchronous collaboration in design	Alison Olechowski	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Energy storage and conversion, fuel cells, and hydrogen production	Olivera Kesler	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Rigid amorphous fraction in PLA and solubility measurements	Ruosong Li	Thesis Project	Undergraduate
2018-2019	Generation of steam by spraying water droplets on hot metal masses	Sanjeev Chandra	Thesis Project	Undergraduate