Project Ideas

I think you should do a project on methods of removing heat while machining metals.

Study the relative merits of mist cooling vs flooding the work piece.

Maybe you can re-write the laws of physics to make mist cooling more efficient than flooding.

Now, since we know nothing about you, your education, your strengths and weaknesses, your likes and dislikes, I think it's an incredible reach to ask strangers to make major life decisions for you.

This does not bode well for you.

Do a web search:

List of mechanical engineering final year projects: Projects ...

Hey thanks for your idea. Ironically, I just completed that project(Cooling during machining operation by mist flow). As coquettish as the idea was, it was an arduous project as well.

Do you have any other idea in your mind?

Thanks again...

I know. That's why I asked the question.

What were the results of that project?

How about developing a new method of moving people in multi-story buildings, instead of elevators and ecsalators.

I normally don't do this but what about design, fabrication and test of a device used to pick and place sub-micron transistors. That would be an informative project.

design a simple off road manual wheelchair suitable for home construction which will take 'standard' size wheels from the users normal chair so that a compromise set of wheels could be used for both.

I'd suggest important design choices:-

3 wheels vs 4.
The smaller wheels at front or back?

Position of C of G... maybe make this adjustable for up/down hill
Anti roll back/roll forward/braking mechanism. maybe with buildt in dirt brish/scraper.
If you do a good job, I'll build one.

Del

I'd give a strong vote for designing and prototyping a threaded fastener that can be used to join two pieces in which the clearance holes are not drilled in the right places.

I'm thinking of employing Van der Waals force in a novel way, such that the the fastener could be discontinuous at the joint surface but with torque and tension transmitted across the discontinuity. As you learned in your classes, Van der Waals force allows a gecko to walk upside down across a ceiling. The tiny hairs on the gecko's feet have a combined mass of .005 g, yet they can support a gecko of several thousand times that mass.

Time-shifting would be another alternative to solve the problem above. As you can probably see, each of the fasteners in the picture could be installed one at a time. It is merely a matter of time shifting to allow all to be installed at the same time.

An alternative project (for this same problem) would be to investigate the use of a very large hammer and a conventional fastener. In the pictured case, one can imagine that, given a big enough hammer, a fastener could be pounded into place. You could call this a Forged Into Place FIP fastener. (This would replace the earlier technology, Forged Under Known Displacement [FUKD]) You always want to end your paper with suggested further research. The further research would be to make the hammer nano sized (so no need for swinging room).

Here's another thought: I wonder if it would be worth considering changing to a major in which you had enough interest to easily come up with a project?

Is a three-axis adjustable hole also available? At times I don't have a fastener that is either long enough or short enough. Usually, I then just body putty over the hole, (because most fasteners are redundant) but I am searching for a more professional approach (or, truth be told, one that looks more professional).

Is there a KrisDel spray that will stabilize the hole after it is installed? In some other brands of hole, anything loose nearby is pulled into the hole, which increases its ability to attract stuff... so more stuff gets pulled in... and before you know it, the authorities show up.

I am a little miffed at the overseas company that supplied my last package of holes. One had three cargo containers and a delivery truck inside.

When are you going digital? Verniers are so five minutes ago. When holes are digitized, will we have to go through the whole 2 bit 4 bit 8 bit 16 bit progression? Or will you be able to do a pradigm-shifting leveraging to concurrent transoptimal tech?

Assuming you are going digital, will this C program work to change hole location:

{while

&% // >> 4 "}

?

Lyn,

LynDoor™ Specialty Bolt Supply offers a complete line of custom bolts for many applications.

Your products are exactly what OMG™ Industries needs for our repair division. We routinely encounter all of the hole conditions you have described in many different threads, SAE and Metric.

Do you have a bolt that is threaded both SAE and Metric threads on the same bolt so I can reduce my double inventory?

BA

Yes, but not yet.

Does it come in a can? Or do I have to order the specific size?

I hadn't thought of that.

Thank you.

Just discharge a fully charged one farad capacitor from bolt head to the metal of the hole. Something will weld together and hold the bolt in place.

Welding with CAPS! Nice!

How about a prop-wash recycling device to increase the efficiency of propeller driven devices?

Or maybe a more advanced form of monkey wrench that advanced primates could use.

Or maybe a doughnut machine that can make bagels too.

I think you should consider a project related to beer!

It does not matter about the details it can be anything.

The advantages are numerous:

1. Any left overs from the study project are easily recycled.

2. There should be no shortage of volunteers to assist with research.

3. There are so many things that have not been thourghly researched yet. Consider the application of new Nano-tecknowlegy.

If you can't come up with an idea, do you think you should be doing engineering?

BAB

Well! I believe that engineers are the ones who solve your problems. Hence, if people like me don't ask for problems from layman and always consider to work with the self generated ideas, I guess that wouldn't give me any right to call myself an engineer either.

You need to consult your professor/project guide first. If your interest is on heat transfer and thermodynamics related subjects study the feasibility of using solar energy in combination with vapor absorption chillers for ac system and compare it with conventional system particularly on energy saving & environmental cost etc.

How about some type of machine that cleans, lubricates and maintains itself?

Why?

• Human operators are highly unreliable.
• Machines operate at peak when they are clean and properly lubricated.
• A machine does what it's told and doesn't say Yeah, yeah , yeah I did it when they didn't!

This leads me to a second project.

• A simple centralized lubrication system that houses multiple bulk greases and oils where it is easily accessed by maintenance personnel and visible to the manager for verification.
• The system will give the proper amount of lubrication to the bearings and slides based on run hours and not a daily, weekly, monthly schedule.
• The easier it is to maintain and see then it will be done properly.
• The reservoirs can be clearly marked with the proper type of lubricant.
• The reservoirs can be filled easily from any type of bulk container.

BA

put as much energy into your idea as you did for your screen name

How much time do you have? I have a very interesting project if you wish to contact me but I understand that is not possible on this forum.. Comments appreciated.

Hi,

I have enough time, to check out your idea. Kindly post your idea or problem or mail it

Your suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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