B.Eng Project Topic

What are your fields of interest and hobbies?

Do you have any local firms you could approach for ideas?... if you can get to talk the designers/engineers they will probably be helpful (This is easier if you are a cute female as most of us des/engs are men...sad but true).

Look at the topics on this forum, there have been plenty of similar questions...

Just off the top of my head without looking.

CVT (continuously variable transmission..or consistently vacuaous twaddle?)

Wind generator (not baked beans)

Solar hot water panels

Raster scan solar toast maker.

Mechanical water pump to lift water 300 feet.

See it's easy if you look...ah, convenient reading magifier for old folk..off road wheelchair....improved chinese repeating crossbow.....anti gravity.....

Good post a while back Doctor wants help with wheels...look that up..

MY basic point..... is look ...go the extra mile don't jsut expect it to be offered on a plate.

I may be a grumpy old git...but good luck

I have a friend that became a EE because he asked his college councilor "What field pays the most?" His councilor replied, "Well, currently EE."

"OK, that's what I want to be." He got his degree. But don't you think that's kind of sad?

Isn't there anything that you feel passionate about regarding electrical engineering? If yes, then go for that! If no, then what difference does it make, just look in the library and rip something off that will get you your grade.

The trick with EE final or major projects is to get a good balance between using analog circuitry and utilising the microcontroller of choice for that year.

The people that grade this stuff want to see machine code for the micro, but theres no shame in ripping off time honored circuits to do what u need. and then just run afew output signals through the ADCs into the micro for some data logging.

I built a very basic SOLAR TRACKER. using a window comparitor circuit (analog)

to drive azimuth rotation, and a servo motor to drive tilt. with the voltage output running into the micro (dont forget the shunt!!) you can track the optimum "solar soaking" position throughout the day.

roberts your mothers brother!!

thanks for replying, but i want my project to be very much related to Communication electronics, like involving digital electronics. using logic gates and the like.

Shame you didn't specify that at trick 1....

BWFT

(yes folks another acronym!)

my bad,

I thought there was a saying about beggers and choosers!!!

Well. i think this is a subject that has a lot of theory, but for your area, i guess designing some kind of router that brings something new would be cool. I´ve studied recently the OSI layer and saw that package routing as a lot to it than it seems. See how the actual routers work and try to add something with an actual micro and some nice code. In any case... good luck ;)

If you want hot networking topics, here are a couple...

1. A lot of new stuff is happening in the data center. Admin are becoming able to group servers and RAID arrays together to work parallel on data intense software during the day, and then have the data center components reconfigure themselves automatically to run in a different configuration (say at night) on a different program.

2. InfiniBand switches are making it possible for groups of servers to do Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to the memory of other servers at very high speeds. This allows servers to work in parallel on jobs. Again, re-configurations can be accomplished through stored time schedules and designs.

3. Web Distributed Services are also hot. It allows one to login and control data equipment from any browser running on any machine. This is actually based on XML, and since it's data intensive, you don't use a DTD, instead you use an XML schema. Also XML is extended into WSDL and is communicated over the top of HTTP by a protocol called SOAP.

4. The PCI bus is almost gone to make run for the much faster and efficient PCIE bus structure (PCI Express).

5. Crunchy frog.