Optimization of Wind Turbine Blades

The wind turbine design is the process of defining the form and specifications of a wind turbine to extract energy from the wind. A wind turbine installation consists of the necessary systems needed to capture the wind's energy, point the turbine into the wind, convert mechanical rotation into electrical power, and other systems to start, stop, and control the turbine. Windmill Kites is one of the best examples of what design improvement can do.

Manufacturing Projects

Manufacturing is a process to develop products for self-use or sell. This process is largely associated with the industries which we called manufacturing industries.

There are many projects which you can do as a student of this field to improve efficiency, lowering raw material wastages and making things green.

I am discussing some of these ideas below :

1. Thermodynamic Analysis of Manufacturing Processes Engineering

2. Applications for the Plastics Industry

The plastics industry manufactures and sells polymers in various shapes and sizes. They are used in the construction of bridges, buildings, and roads.
Many household goods are also made up of plastic.

3. Green and Efficient Materials :

Green Manufacturing

4. Use of Waste Resources

5. Reducing waiting time for an individual product.

6. Lead time reduction and capacity increase strategy in coil manufacturing for electric motors


Useful Links:

Planning Process in Manufacturing Systems

Biomechanics Projects

Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of biological systems by means of the methods of mechanics. It is a very important branch of science and also very helpful to the athletes who participate in the Olympics.

BioMechanical Project Ideas:

The best ideas about this topic I have found so far are available at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering click here.

Professor Jonathan Butcher and Jack Thompson Projects

Effects Of Shear Stress And Tensile Strain On Cell Mono-layers

Effect of obesity on Walk of humans: you can study the effect of obesity on the human body. When the weight of the body increases, it can cause changes to our walking habits. You can study about this topic.

Design human body parts: In a year millions of people around the world lose there one or more parts of their body due to accidents or natural disasters. We can help those individuals by developing these for them.

Design robots biomechanically: If you have worked with robots before, you know that designing them is a very difficult task, you can take the help of human or animal body dynamics in their design.

Instrumentation design projects

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Mechanical Projects

Microbial fuel cell

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) or biological fuel cell is a bio-electrochemical system that drives a current by mimicking bacterial interactions found in nature. A microbial fuel cell is a device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy by the catalytic reaction of microorganisms.

Bending Light

Objective: Study about light and what happens when it gets bend.

Refraction is the change in direction of a wave due to a change in its speed. This is most commonly observed when a wave passes from one medium to another at any angle other than 90° or 0°.

School Projects

Ultraviolet Rays :
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays, in the range 10 nm to 400 nm, and energies from 3 eV to 124 eV. It is named because the spectrum consists of electromagnetic waves with frequencies higher than those that humans identify as the color violet.

Internal Combustion engine Project

IC Engine which is also known as the Internal Combustion engine are engines where combustion takes place inside the engine. It is different from external combustion engines such as Stirling engine and Steam Engines where combustion takes place outside the chamber of an engine.
Projects :

Stress Analysis and Optimization of Crankshafts:    The main objective of this study was to investigate weight and cost reduction opportunities for a forged steel crankshaft. The need for load history in the FEM analysis necessitates performing a detailed dynamic load analysis. Therefore, this study consists of three major sections: (1) dynamic load analysis, (2) FEM and stress analysis, (3) optimization for weight and cost reduction.

Computer Simulated Engine Performance

Useful Links :

Animation of 4 Stroke ICE
Hydrogen internal combustion engine

detonation frequency analysis
Engine Modeling of an Internal Combustion Engine
Air Compress Car
Air Bike



Related PDF :

Rotatory Internal combustion Engines:: One of the smallest combustion engines used to power batteries.
Design and Experimental Results of Small-Scale Rotary Engines

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Stirling Engine

Income Tax Calculator

How this tool would be helpful?

The income tax calculator is a very useful tool for everyday users. Every one of us needs to calculate our payable tax each year. This task becomes much more complicated when we have different sources of income and each has a different rule from the income tax department.


For Whom: This project idea is for Computer Science(CS) and Information Technology (IT)Students.

Level: Easy

How to build it ?

As always to build any software project, we will follow waterfall model as you have studied in Software engineering class :

Requirement Analysis :

This is one of the most steps for any computer science project. In this step, we find out the complete requirement for this project including customer's requirements and software requirements. Very important questions such as why we need this particular project? Who are end-users? Things like that should be answered in this step.

Database

We will database to store user information, tax rules information and stuff like that. For this project, we will use Mysql as our database engine.

Which type of Application it is going to be?
We are going to make it a web application because this application needs regular updates about the IT rules and if we made desktop applications, it would be extremely difficult for us to update the database of each and every customer.

With the help of web application users from different countries can use it without worrying about updating it manually because administrators of this application would keep on updating and adding new rules whenever applicable.

Programming Language:

After knowing that it is going to be web application it is easier to decide what it is going to be the PHP application. There are two reasons behind my selection :

• First, PHP is a very popular language and free books and tutorials are easily available online.
• Second, its free, PHP is open-source language so that its totally free to use and it gets updated from time to time with better functionality.

I have discussed some points for our planning phase but you can add many more details in requirement analysis, because bigger it is, better your software will be.

Design :

There is going to be two sections for our income tax calculator :

Administration Section: The owner of the application can edit the income tax rules and modify the data such as rates which is necessary.

User Section: Where the user can select his or her country or state, so correct tax rules can be applied for his tax form. After that, there would be income form to be filled, which eventually gives the user a total amount of tax to be paid.

You will need a pencil and blank papers for this section, draw the design of all the pages which are required, draw form, its label, specify where you need text field, radio button or combo box.

Implementation :

Download the Wamp server and start working with the help of simple notepad. To code, you should have good knowledge of PHP, read some free tutorials on the internet if you don't have that.

Verification :

Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program/application/product:

1. meets the requirements that guided its design and development;
2. works as expected; and
3. can be implemented with the same characteristics.

There are three types of testing whose explanation is out of the scope of this post but you can read more about them by clicking on links below :

1.White Box Testing
2.Black Box Testing
3.Grey Box Testing.


Maintenance :

Software are never complete there is always scope for improvement. So, our income tax calculator to needs a continuous upgrade for new features and technology.

For your help you can download source code and application itself from the links below :

Income Tax Calculator :

OpenTaxSolver: Open Source Income tax calculator written in C

TaxMagic: A simple open-source/free software tax calculator written in .NET

Tax Estimator: U.S. Federal personal income tax estimates using the RushTaxOS tax engine.

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Computer Engineering Project ideas
Java Project Ideas

Python Projects
Php Project

iPhone Applications

C++ Projects

automatic parallel parking cars

What is an Automatic Car Parking?

Automatic parking is an autonomous car maneuvering from a traffic lane into a parking place to perform parallel parking, perpendicular or angle parking.

What's the importance of this topic? 

Parking is one of the challenging things for humans in Car Driving. Even though, lot of solutions available for smooth and safe driving such as car collision avoidance systems, but very less focus is given to the automatic parking system till recently. Although many cars are now available with this feature such as Toyota Prius, still there is a long way to go.

For Whom :
Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science, almost all branches.

Level: Difficult
It is not an uncomplicated task to build up automatic parking expertise for a car. First of all, the car must be able to sense the surroundings, to find a free parking space and to detect obstacles in the car park.
Secondly, it should have the capability to plan the movement itself from the input of the sensor system.
Lastly, it should be able to go after the premeditated motion sequences and to make sure that a goal position is reached, regardless of noise and errors.

Useful Links

How Self Parking Works?
Camera-based intelligent parking system


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Source Code :

Java  : Vehicle Parking

Pedal powered Grinding Mill

Grain grinder needs no introduction, it has a significant contribution in our life whether we have it at our home or not but we all are dependent on it for our food. This project idea is for mechanical and physics students.



There are basically two types of grinders :

1.Automatic Electric Machine driven grinder
2. Human-powered grinder

Purpose: This project is based on the human-powered grinder. Instead of driving it by hand, we would use cycle pedals to grind wheat or other grains.

Concept:  We will connect the cycle wheel with a grinder using different gears. By rotating wheels with the help of pedal, our pedal-powered grinder starts to rotate. Remaining all the parts works as they do in traditional grinders.

Merits :
1. It will save electricity
2.Easier to maintain
3. Make yourself fit.

Useful Articles:

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Compound gear reduction chain drive

 

Related PDF :
Portable Pedal Power 

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Solar Energy Project Ideas
Physics Projects

Mini bio fuel gas turbine

A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of internal combustion engine. It has an upstream rotating compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between. In the mini biogas fuel turbines, we would rotate the turbine using the energy of biofuel gas.