MEng Group Projects

Undergraduates enrolled on the four-year M.Eng. course must complete a group project in their final year. Groups consist of around four students and emphasis is placed on conducting the projects in a very professional manner – minutes are produced at all meetings, and reports are produced at regular intervals throughout the work. Through the bringing together of a number of high quality M.Eng. students, each of which already have three years of academic experience behind them, these group projects often achieve a considerable amount. Furthermore, there exists the possibility of carrying on a large project to the following year.

Topics of interest to us include…

• Image Processing & Pattern Recognition
• Instrumentation & Measurement
• Antennas & RADAR
• Medical Electromagnetics
• Electrical Actuators
• Motor & Generator Design
• Motor Control Systems
• Semiconductor Devices
• Power Electronics

…and many others too!

Ideal arena for more demanding projects with multiple issues…

M.Eng. Group Projects, being team activities, offer the benefit of a number of individuals working together, so allowing more than one activity to be conducted at the same time. Hence projects that can naturally be partitioned into four or more subsections are particularly suitable. For example, a recent project required the design of an internal combustion engine/electric motor driven locomotive. This required the design and building of an electric motor, a generator, microprocessor control system, and user interface.

Timings of Projects

Projects run from October to April each year.

Recent projects have included:-

• Brushless-dc sensorless motor control
• Improved design of a 24V 250W air-driven safety lamp for use in hazardous environments
• Rate-of-change of frequency protection for isolated electrical power systems
• ETRAS 3 axis, four quadrant dynamic loading development
• Design and Build of a Small Scale Hybrid-Electric Locomotive
• Vibration cancellation of two back-to-back actuators for use in the healthcare industry
• Electrically driven HVAC (heating ventilation and air-conditioning system) for Hybrid Electric Vehicle
• Foetal electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring and analysis
• Current change accelerated distance protection
• Dielectric roll-over-azimuth antenna positioner

Project partners have included:-

• 1-Off Engineers
• Antenova
• E-On PLC
• Goodrich Aeronautical Systems
• Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
• Huntleigh Healthcare
• Lotus Engineering Ltd.
• NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH
• The Wolf Safety Lamp Company