This is the fourth year thesis course – each student does supervised research on an engineering topic and reports on this periodically throughout the year, and at the end of the year. Research topics are selected from a list distributed early in the fall term, or by consultation with faculty members. Projects typically involve the design and implementation of some piece of equipment, or software; emphasis is placed on projects where engineering and mathematics fit together nicely. (For example, design and construction of a hovercraft, and the controller, has appeared as a team project in the last few years.) A written proposal for your project is due at the end of the fourth week of the first term, and a draft of the Engineering Design Chapter of the Thesis on January 31st. Communication skills are stressed in the proposal, in the interim oral report in the first term, in the Engineering Design Chapter and in the final oral and written reports on the results of the investigation. Typically thesis projects are done by teams of up to four students.
