Student Research Opportunities
There are many opportunities for students to get involved with the groundbreaking research conducted by over 50 research groups at MIE.
Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering students interested in working with research groups or pursuing a thesis project may:
- browse research opportunities in the table below, including thesis projects.
- contact faculty members directly to inquire about research opportunities or potential thesis project supervision.
Master of Engineering (MEng) students interested in pursuing an MEng project may:
- browse available MEng projects in the table below.
- contact faculty members directly to inquire about research opportunities or potential thesis project supervision.
Master of Applied Science (MASc) and PhD students conduct research with the support of their supervisor.
Interested postdoctoral candidates can explore the Postdoctoral Fellows Portal or browse open positions on our Careers page.
Prospective graduate students interested in getting involved in research at MIE should review our Programs Overview page.
| Date Added | Title | Contact | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | Kirigami metamaterials as humidity responsive surfaces | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Kevin Golovin (Kevin.golovin@utoronto.ca) and/or Zahra Azimi (zahra.azimi@mail.utoronto.ca) | Materials/Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024 | Automotive HMI (Human-Machine Interface) and Attentional Allocation Model Verification in Level 3 Autonomous Driving | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Birsen Donmez ( donmez@mie.utoronto.ca) and Jinzhen Dou ( Jinzhen.dou@mail.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors |
| Fall 2024 | Automotive HMI (Human-Machine Interface) and Attentional Allocation Model Verification in Level 3 Autonomous Driving | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Birsen Donmez ( donmez@mie.utoronto.ca) and Jinzhen Dou ( Jinzhen.dou@mail.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors |
| Fall 2024 | Investigating Driver Interaction with Automated Vehicles | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Birsen Donmez (donmez@mie.utoronto.ca) and Mark Wei (mwei@mie.utoronto.ca). | Human Factors |
| Fall 2024 | Investigating Driver Interaction with Automated Vehicles | Please submit CV, unofficial transcripts and one paragraph describing your interest to Prof. Birsen Donmez (donmez@mie.utoronto.ca) and Mark Wei (mwei@mie.utoronto.ca). | Human Factors |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Molecular Engineering of Innovative Multifunctional Composite Aerogels: Energy & Environmental Applications | Please submit your CV and a single paragraph describing your interest in the project in one file within a single email to Prof, Chul Park (park@mie.utoronto.ca) and Zeineb Ben Rejeb (zbrejeb@mie.utoronto.ca). | Materials |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Molecular Dynamics Engineering of Innovative polymeric porous structures and ML-based generative data handling: Energy & Environmental Applications | Please submit your CV and a single paragraph describing your interest in the project in one file within a single email to Prof. Chul Park (park@mie.utoronto.ca), Behrang Mohajer (bmohajer@mail.utoronto.ca) and Amir Salehi (a.salehi@mie.utoronto.ca). | Thermofluids |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Simulation of non-Newtonian polymeric met fluid for spunbonding and particle tracking in the post-process: Energy & Environmental Applications | Please submit your CV and a single paragraph describing your interest in the project in one file within a single email to Prof, Chul Park (park@mie.utoronto.ca), Behrang Mohajer (bmohajer@mail.utoronto.ca) and Amir Salehi (a.salehi@mie.utoronto.ca). | Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024 | Simulator study investigating touchscreen controls in vehicles | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Birsen Donmez (donmez@mie.utoronto.ca) or Chelsea DeGuzman (deguzman@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors |
| Fall 2024 | Driver Behavioural Change Interventions to Improve Fleet Safety | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Birsen Donmez donmez@mie.utoronto.ca and Dr. Basar Demir (b.demir@utoronto.ca) | Human Factors |
| Summer 2024/Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Creating social proof to encourage pro-social and/or pro-health behaviors | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Shu (shu@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors ;Mechanics and Design ;Information Engineering; |
| Fall 2024 | Using machine learning to Predict recovery after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery: a historical cohort study using data from the Canadian Spine Outcomes Research Network (CSORN) | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Fatemeh Jazinizadeh (fatemeh.jazinizadeh@utoronto.ca) | Applied Machine Learning |
| Summer 2024/Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Overcoming Misinformation | 'Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Shu (shu@mie.utoronto.ca) | Mechanics and Design/Human Factors/Information Engineering; |
| Fall 2024 | Accessibility study on lecture recordings (Engineering education, universal instructional design) | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Janet Lam (janet@mie.utoronto.ca) | Operations Research |
| Fall 2024 | Optimization and Prototyping of a Passive Irrigation Controller for Low-Income Farmers | Please submit CV, and a single paragraph describing your interest in one file to Prof. Amy Bilton (bilton@mie.utoronto.ca). | Mechanics and Design/Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024 | Understanding the Environmental Impact of Oil Spill Remediation | Please submit CV, and a single paragraph describing your interest in one file to Prof. Amy Bilton (bilton@mie.utoronto.ca). | Thermofluids/Mechanics and Design |
| Fall 2024 | Development of a small turbine for energy recovery and pressure regulation | Please submit CV, and a single paragraph describing your interest in one file to Prof. Amy Bilton (bilton@mie.utoronto.ca). | Mechanics and Design/Thermofluids; |
| Fall 2024 | Development of a Sensing Platform to Support Global Development Projects | Please submit CV, and a single paragraph describing your interest in one file to Prof. Amy Bilton (bilton@mie.utoronto.ca). | Robotics/Mechanics and Design/Thermofluids; |
| Fall 2024 | Faecal Sludge Sensors for Improved Sanitation Treatment in India | Please submit CV, and a single paragraph describing your interest in one file to Prof. Amy Bilton (bilton@mie.utoronto.ca). | Robotics/Mechanics and Design/Thermofluids; |
| Fall 2024 | Printed Circuit Board Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) | 'Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Janet Lam (janet@mie.utoronto.ca) | Applied Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024 | An Ontology for Affordable Housing for use in City Digital Twins | Please submit CV and transcript to Prof. Mark Fox (msf@mie.utoronto.ca) | Information Engineering |
| Fall 2024 | Optimal sequencing of jobs using set-up time prediction model | Please submit CV and transcript to Dhavalkumar Patel at dhaval.patel@mail.utoronto.ca | Applied Machine Learning/Operations Research |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Machine learning to predict the amount of biomass from pants captured as image | 'Please submit CV and transcript to Dhavalkumar Patel at dhaval.patel@mail.utoronto.ca | Applied Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Driver behaviour modeling in ride-share system using inverse optimization | Please submit CV and transcript to Please submit CV and transcript to Mohammadreza Fathi at m.fathi@mail.utoronto.ca | Operations Research/Applied Machine Learning |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Machine Learning Platform Development for Data-Driven Materials Innovation | Please submit your CV and a single paragraph describing your interest in the project in one file within a single email to Prof. Chul Park (park@mie.utoronto.ca) and Omid Aghababaei Tafreshi (tafreshi@mie.utoronto.ca). Shortlisted applicants will be contacted thereafter. | Applied Machine Learning/Materials |
| Summer / Fall 2024 | Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Methods towards Engineering Applications | Interested applicants are encouraged to send a Cover Letter and a Resume to Prof. Kamran Behdinan (kamran.behdinan@utoronto.ca). Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed. | Mechanics & Design |
| Summer / Fall 2024 | Reducing Noise Emission in Aerospace Applications | Please submit CV and transcript for review to: Prof. Behdinan (behdinan@mie.utoronto.ca) by May 31, 2023. | Mechanics & Design |
| Summer / Fall 2024 | AI Based Design for 4D Printed Polymers | Please submit CV and transcript for review to: Prof. Behdinan (behdinan@mie.utoronto.ca) by May 31, 2023. | Mechanics & Design |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Conduct a Literature Review of Automation Failure Mechanisms Implemented in Human Factors Engineering Empirical Studies | Interested candidates should contact Prof. Greg A. Jamieson (jamieson@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors/Ergonomics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Development of Automation Failure Scenarios in a Laboratory Microworld | Interested candidates should contact Prof. Greg A. Jamieson (jamieson@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors & Ergonomics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Contribute to a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Human Performance Responses to Automation Failure | Interested candidates should contact Prof. Greg A. Jamieson (jamieson@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors & Ergonomics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Validation of the Response Integration across Measures & Experiments (RIME) Table | Interested candidates should contact Prof. Greg A. Jamieson (jamieson@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors & Ergonomics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Development and Deployment of a Small Modular Reactor facility Simulator | Interested candidates should contact Prof. Greg A. Jamieson (jamieson@mie.utoronto.ca) | Human Factors & Ergonomics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Electronics and Embedded Systems Development for Smart Wearable Medical Devices | Interested candidates should contact Prof. Hani E. Naguib (naguib@mie.utoronto.ca) for more information. | Materials, Mechanics & Design, Robotics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Additive Manufacturing Next Generation Polymeric Materials | Interested candidates should immediately contact Prof. Hani E. Naguib (naguib@mie.utoronto.ca) for more information. | Materials, Mechanics & Design, Robotics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Interface Engineering and Architecture Design of Li-Rich Layered Cathode for Cycle-Stable Li-Ion Batteries | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Operando detection of Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes interface to mitigate thermal runaway | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | 2D Graphitic Carbon (GC) as Cathode Host in Lithium Sulfur Batteries | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Super-critical fluid extraction for plastics toxicity | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Roll to Roll Manufacturing of Advanced Hydrogen Fuel Cell Components | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Photochemical Reactor Design and Validation for Stripping Mixed Macromolecules from Municipal Waste | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | 3D Printing Structural Battery Components for Electric Vehicles (EVs) | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Summer 2025 | Interface Engineering and Architecture Design of Li-Rich Layered Cathode for Cycle-Stable Li-Ion Batteries | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Summer 2025 | 2D Graphitic Carbon (GC) as Cathode Host in Lithium Sulfur Batteries | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Summer/Fal 2025 | Electronic enclosures for Battery Electric Vehicle (BeV) | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Summer 2025 - 2 positions | 3D Printing Structural Battery Components for Electric Vehicles (EVs) | Interested MEng students can send CVs to Prof. Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Mechanics and Materials |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Lattice Boltzmann modeling of drop evaporation on a glass surface | Interested MEng students can send CVs, short description of interest to Prof. Pierre Sullivan (pierre.sullivan@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Lattice Boltzmann modeling of water near an interface | Interested MEng students can send CVs, short description of interest to Prof. Pierre Sullivan (pierre.sullivan@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | Manufacture and testing of high pressure sensor for industrial processes | Interested MEng students can send CVs, short description of interest to Prof. Pierre Sullivan (pierre.sullivan@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | CFD modeling of inclined synthetic jet analysis using COMSOL | Interested MEng students can send CVs, short description of interest to Prof. Pierre Sullivan (pierre.sullivan@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Summer 2024/ Fall 2024 | AI for particle image velocimetry analysis | Interested MEng students can send CVs, short description of interest to Prof. Pierre Sullivan (pierre.sullivan@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Combining modularity-based and Markov-based community detection algorithms to accurately and reliably cluster networked data | Interested MEng students should send one email to Prof. Samin Aref (aref@mie.utoronto.ca) with the following documents combined into one pdf file: CV, unofficial transcript(s), one paragraph describing their interest in the project, one paragraph describing how they match the skills listed in the description of the project | Data Science/Machine Learning/ Operations Research/Information Engineering |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Additive Manufacturing of Composite Biomaterials | Interested students should contact Professor Axel Guenther (axel.guenther@utoronto.ca) | Bioprinting/3D printing/material optimization/bioengineering |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Multi-Nozzle Printhead for Consistent, Rapid In-Situ Delivery of Bioinks with a Handheld Bioprinter | Interested students should contact Professor Axel Guenther (axel.guenther@utoronto.ca) | Bioprinting/3D printing/material optimization/bioengineering |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Exploring gait anomalies in response to environmental perturbations | Requires familiarity with gait biomechanics and analysis. Interested candidates should contact Prof. Fae Azhari (azhari@mie.utoronto.ca) | Robotics/Data Analytics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Exploratory data analysis in a manufacturing system for energy consumption | Please contact Prof. Chi-Guhn Lee (cglee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Operations Research/Applied Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Machine learning approach to forecasting of counterfactual demands in supply chain | Please contact Prof. Chi-Guhn Lee (cglee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Applied Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Applying lead-user methods to identify and overcome obstacles to pro-social, pro-health, and/or pro-environmnetal behavior (please specify if you have a specfic behavior in mind) | Please email to Prof. Li Shu (shu@mie.utoronto.ca) a single pdf file containing the following: CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest and skills for the project. Please name the file as follows: Shulab_MEng_ | Human Factors & Ergonomics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | How expressive are RNNs for expressing the physiological processes a patient is undergoing in the ICU? For example, can RNNs model drug-drug interaction well? (Yes). Can RNNs model a deteriorating patient due to infection (maybe) | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. | Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | What makes it that Go is more difficult for a computer to win against a human than Chess? Investigate existing approaches to find out | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. | Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | What makes a piece of Music/Literatue/Board game playing brilliant? A machine-learning approach | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. | Machine Learning |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Data Mining Social Media for early novel disease identification (e.g., idenify "long covid" before the name "long covid" existed form social media data | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. | Machine Learning, Data Science |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Propose your own project in Machine Learning/Computer Vision/Data Science for Healthcare | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. | Machine Learning/Data Science |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Work on a framework to automatically "localize" the SIGSOFT Empirical Standards https://acmsigsoft.github.io/EmpiricalStandards/docs/ to different areas of computer science (or potentially other fields). The work would involve theoretical analysis of empirical methods, with a particular emphasis on quantitative methods, as well as the development of a web framework that would allow end-users to automatically generate their own versions of the document and link those versions to conference/journal management software. This would be a collaboration with Michael Guerzhoy (MIE/EngSci) and Paul Ralph (Dalhousie). The student needs a solid background in empirical methods, and interest in working on the Empirical Standards framework, and a willingness/ability to work on building a software framework. | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. | Research methods/web programming |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Grounding AI Ethics in Philosophy. AI Ethics is often taught from the perspective of Kant and Mill. Bentham is often taught, but frequently not mentioned by name. Plato actually has a lot to say on the subject, but is entirely absent. Ruha Benjamin is often mentioned, but not in the sam category. In this project, we'll read philosophers beyond Kant, Mill, and Bentham to situate the conversation about AI Ethics in a richer philosophical tradition that it's usuall situated in. | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Interview is required. The statement of interest should contain a brief discussion of two academic philosophers (not necessarily ethicists; for the prupose of this question, an "academic philosopher" is someone who works at a university as a philosopher, or someone whose work is widely studied by philosohers working at universities) whose works you've read and enjoyed. What did you like about their works? You shouls also have a solid background in probability and statistics. | Engineering ethics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Testing Social Psychology Hypotheses with Social Media Data (in particular, can patterns in Honor Culture (Nisbett, Culture of Honor (1996)) be showing in social media data? | Please submit a CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest to Prof. Michael Guerzhoy (guerzhoy@mie.utoronto.ca). Requirements: willingness and/or ability to learn to scrape and to work with LLMs. Interest in computational methods in sociology, and interest in psychology. | Machine Learning, Data Science |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Image Analysis in Mineral Mining | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and a paragraph describing relevant relevant background and your interest in the project to Prof. Mariano Consens (consens@mie.utoronto.ca) | Deep Learning, Applied ML, Image Data Processing |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Customizing LLMs for Graph Data Management tasks | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and a paragraph describing relevant relevant background and your interest in the project to Prof. Mariano Consens (consens@mie.utoronto.ca) | LLM Customization, Applied ML, Graph Data Management |
| Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 | Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion - Various projects dealing with materials-processing-microstructure-property relationships for component designs to be used in clean energy applications. Contact Instructor for more details | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and a paragraph describing relevant relevant background and your interest in the project to Prof. Olivera Kesler (kesler@mie.utoronto.ca) | Mechanics and Materials, Advanced Manufacturing |
| Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 | Solid oxide fuel cells, high-efficiency electrolysis, oxygen separation membranes, clean energy - Contact Instructor for more details | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and a paragraph describing relevant relevant background and your interest in the project to Prof. Olivera Kesler (kesler@mie.utoronto.ca) | Mechanics and Materials, Advanced Manufacturing |
| Fall 2024 | Human-Centered Data Science in Healthcare and Medical Research | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project in one file in a single email to Prof. Mark Chignell (chignel@mie.utoronto.ca) and Dr. Lu Wang (wanglu.wang@mail.utoronto.ca) | Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Medical Research |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Numerical Investigation of Solid-State Ceramic Film fabrication via Aerosol Deposition Method for Advanced Surface Engineering Applications | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Ali Dolatabadi (ali.dolatabadi@utoronto.ca), and Dr. Mehdi Jadidi (mehdi.jadidi@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Numerical Modeling of Cold Spray Technology for Metal 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Ali Dolatabadi (ali.dolatabadi@utoronto.ca), and Dr. Mehdi Jadidi (mehdi.jadidi@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Fall 2023/Winter 2024 Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Automation of thermofluid measurement systems | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Dave Sinton (dave.sinton@utoronto.ca), and Dr. Mohammad Zargartalebi (m.zargartalebi@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids/Mechatronics |
| Fall 2023/Winter 2024 Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | High-throughput screening of thermofluids | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Dave Sinton (dave.sinton@utoronto.ca), and Dr. Mohammad Zargartalebi (m.zargartalebi@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids/Data gathering/management, and analysis |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Thermofluid device integration: instrumentation and control solutions | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Dave Sinton (dave.sinton@utoronto.ca), and Dr. Mohammad Zargartalebi (m.zargartalebi@utoronto.ca) | Instrumentation/ Control systems |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Deep Learning for Automated Software Engineering | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Eldan Cohen (ecohen@mie.utoronto.ca) | Deep Learning/Natural Language Processing |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Text Analysis in Various Applications | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Eldan Cohen (ecohen@mie.utoronto.ca) | Applied Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Interpretable Machine Learning using Mathematical Optimization | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Eldan Cohen (ecohen@mie.utoronto.ca) | Machine Learning/ Operations Research |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Equity centered human-centered design studies | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Enid Montague (enid.montague@utoronto.ca) | Human Factors & Ergonomics/Artificial Intelligence/Healthcare |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Human-centered automation and human-AI teams in healthcare (projects in family medicine, organ transplant and heart failure) | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Enid Montague (enid.montague@utoronto.ca) | Human Factors & Ergonomics/Artificial Intelligence/Healthcare |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Development and characterization of dust-repellent surfaces | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Kevin Golovin (kevin.golovin@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids/ Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Temperature dependence of advanced anti-icing materials | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Kevin Golovin (kevin.golovin@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids/ Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | Waterborne omniphobic coatings | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Kevin Golovin (kevin.golovin@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids/ Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024 / Winter 2025 | High speed camera imaging of fibre fragmentation / fracture | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Kevin Golovin (kevin.golovin@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids/ Mechanics and Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Intelligent Socially Assistive Robots for Vulnerable Populations | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Goldie Nejat (nejat@mie.utoronto.ca) | Robotics/ Deep Learning/ Human-robot Interaction |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Multi-robot Cooperation in Varying Environments | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Goldie Nejat (nejat@mie.utoronto.ca) | Robotics/Deep Learning/ Human-robot and robot-robot Interaction |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Robots in the Wild - Intelligence for Real-World Environments | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Goldie Nejat (nejat@mie.utoronto.ca) | AI/BIg Data/Robotics |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Robotics and AI in Healthcare Settings | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Goldie Nejat (nejat@mie.utoronto.ca) | Robotics, Deep Learning, Human-robot Interaction |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Optimizing the Microstructure of Bioplastic PLA with Lignocellulosic Biobased Nanofibrils | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/ Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Transforming Polymer Waste into High-Value Carbon Products and Composites: A_x005F_x000D_ Sustainable Solution | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/ Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Subcutaneous Vein Detection and Mapping for Home Hemodialysis Self-cannulation | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Bio-inspired Ultra-Strong and Tough Hybrid Composites via Micro-structuring | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing, Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Polymer Microstructure Design and Foaming Optimization via Machine Learning | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/ Machine Learning/Data Science |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Highly Strechable and Self-Healable Organic Semiconductors for Health Monitoring Wearable Sensor | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Fabricating Hierarchically Structured Carbon Aerogels from Sustainable Biomaterials | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Conductive polymer composites for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding application | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Highly Efficient Passive Cooling Structures via Micro-layering | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Enhanced Piezoelectric Response Sensors via Micro-layering | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Deep insight into reverse osmosis membrane compaction and characterization using microscopy imaging techniques | Please submit CV, unofficial transcript, to Prof. Patrick Lee (patricklee@mie.utoronto.ca) | Advanced Manufacturing/Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Developing digital twins for battery thermal management systems | Please, submit CV, unofficial transcripts, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Cristina Amon (cristina.amon@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Predicting thermal runaway propagation in lithium-ion battery systems | Please, submit CV, unofficial transcripts, and one paragraph describing your interest in the project to Prof. Cristina Amon (cristina.amon@utoronto.ca) | Thermofluids |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Non-Destructive Diffusion-wave Techniques and Imaging for Solar Cells and Clean Energy Conversion Optoelectronic Devices | Submit CV, unoffiical transcript to Prof Mandelis (mandelis@mie.utoronto.ca), Dr Melnikov (melnikov@mie.utoronto.ca). Description: Development of novel diffusion-wave imaging and other diagnostic techniques for industrial quality control of optoelectronic materials and devices, primarily silicon and quantum dot solar cells as well as substrate wafers under various device fabrication and processing phases. For more information, consult https://cadipt.mie.utoronto.ca | Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Dynamic Imaging of Solar Cell Optoelectronic Quality using a Near-Infrared Camera | Submit CV, unoffiical transcript to Prof Mandelis (mandelis@mie.utoronto.ca), Dr Melnikov (melnikov@mie.utoronto.ca). Description: We have developed a non-destructive imaging technique (solar cell lock-in carrierography) which monitors the optoelectronic quality of industrial silicon-based photovoltaic solar cells and aims to correlate the images with the electrical output and overall performance efficiency of the solar cell. A MEng student will be required to work with the research team in generating and analyzing carrierographic images in order to build the statistics of these optical-electrical correlations and relate images to quantitative measurements of the parameters responsible for the solar cell efficiency. | Materials |
| Fall 2024/Winter 2025 | Near infrared blood oxygenation of biomaterials and tissues for disease diagnosis using differential wavelength modulated thermophotonic imaging | Submit CV, unoffiical transcript to Prof Mandelis (mandelis@mie.utoronto.ca), Dr Melnikov (melnikov@mie.utoronto.ca). Description:We are developing a new biomedical imaging modality to generate high sensitivity images of blood oxygenation under body circulating conditions so as to be able to monitor hypoxia in blood rich vessels and tissue sites as a hallmark of malignancy. A laser excitation source and an infrared camera will be used for the imaging. One or two MEng students will work with our Research Associate to help test and optimize the setup in anticipation of further research projects. | Materials |
| Winter 2025/Summer 2025 | Design and fabrication of 3D-printed interconnects and manifolds for open microfluidic devices | Interested students should submit CVs and a brief statement of interest to Prof. Edmond Young (eyoung@mie.utoronto.ca) | Mechanics and Materials |
| Winter 2025/Summer 2025 | Advanced manufacturing and novel materials for biomicrofluidic and organ-on-a-chip systems | Interested students should submit CVs and a brief statement of interest to Prof. Edmond Young (eyoung@mie.utoronto.ca) | Mechanics and Materials |
| Winter 2025/Summer 2025 | Design considerations for multi-organ microphysiological systems | Interested students should submit CVs and a brief statement of interest to Prof. Edmond Young (eyoung@mie.utoronto.ca) | Mechanics and Materials |
