MIE Undergraduate Research Thesis (MIE498 H/Y) - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

MIE Undergraduate Thesis Projects: An Opportunity for Independent Research under Faculty Supervision.

Enrollment Procedure:

Find a supervisor and a thesis topic/project: You can review the available thesis topics/projects below or you can independently contact MIE faculty members who you are interested in working with. The website will be updated with project submissions as they become available.
Once you have found a faculty member who will supervise you, submit the Thesis Enrollment Form to the MIE Undergraduate Office at undergrad@mie.utoronto.ca. Ensure that your supervisor signs the form.
Attach a 1-page outline of the project you plan to undertake.
a. Explain how the research project builds upon one or more aspects of engineering science introduced in the student's academic program
b. Provide an estimate of a level of effort not less than 130 productive hours of work per term
c. Specify a deliverable in each term to be submitted by the last day of lectures
Final submission date for the Thesis topic forms: 5 business days prior the last day to add courses
1. If approved, your research thesis will be added to your transcript on ACORN by the MIE UG Office. If it is not approved, we will notify you by email.

Note: Approval to register for the fourth-year thesis course (MIE498H1 or MIE498Y1) must be obtained from the Associate Chair - Undergraduate and is normally restricted to fourth year students with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.7.

Thesis Examples:

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Available Projects:

Date Added	Open to	Term Offered	Research Area	Research Topic
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Winter	Robotics	Ai-Embedded Robotics
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-Year	Robotics	Ai-Embedded Robotics
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-Year	Human Factors, Information Engineering, Design	Overcoming misinformation/disinformation
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Fall, Winter	Human Factors, Information Engineering, Design	Overcoming social conformity
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials, Energy	Fuel Cells
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials, Energy	Fuel Cells
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Highly Efficient Passive Cooling Structures via Nano-layering
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Bio-inspired Ultra-Strong and Tough Hybrid Composites via Micro-structuring
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Transforming Polymer Waste into High-Value Carbon Products and Composites: A Sustainable Solution
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Subcutaneous Vein Detection and Mapping for Home Hemodialysis Self-cannulation
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Applied Machine Learning	Polymer Microstructure Design and Foaming Optimization via Machine Learning (ML)
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Optimizing the Microstructure of Bioplastic PLA with Lignocellulosic Biobased Nanofibrils
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Micro-structuring of Artificial Nacre Structures via Laser-induced Graphene
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Highly Stretchable and Self-Healable Organic Semiconductors for Health Monitoring Wearable Sensor
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Fabricating Hierarchically Structured Carbon Aerogels from Sustainable Biomaterials
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year		Deep insight into reverse osmosis membrane compaction and characterization using microscopy imaging techniques
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Conductive polymer composites for Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) shielding application
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Winter	Materials	Growth of attached lubricants to liquid glass
8-Jul-25	Industrial	Winter	Information Engineering	Review and Application of Ontologies for City Land Use and Zoning
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Mechanics & Design	Human-AI collaboration in early-stage engineering design
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Human Factors	Product Design - Aesthetic Preferences
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Mechanics & Design	Photothermal-based Cardiology Catheter Imaging Project-2
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Mechanics & Design	Photothermal-based Cardiology Catheter Imaging Project-1
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Materials	Development of Non-Destructive Optoelectronic Diffusion-Wave Imaging for Solar cells and other Electronic Devices at Micrometer/Sub-micrometer levels
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Applied Machine Learning	Thermal emission waveform filtering using Autoencoders and Neural Networks
8-Jul-25	Industrial	Full-year	Applied Machine Learning	Large Multimodal Models for Social Sciences Applications
8-Jul-25	Industrial	Full-year	Information Engineering	Large Language Models (LLMs) in Automated Software Engineering
8-Jul-25	Industrial	Full-year	Operations Research	Large Language Models (LLMs) for Constraint Modelling
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-year	Materials	Advanced coating development in the DREAM Lab
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Human Factors	Design and Usability Enhancement of Exergaming System for Older Adults
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Human Factors	An Old-Time Radio Providing Music Therapy
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Human Factors	Online Cognitive Assessment Games for Early Detection of Cognitive Decline
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-year	Robotics	Foldable-Wing Micro Air Vehicle with Compliant Landing Gear for Vertical Landings
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Thermofluids	Deep Learning with Physical Constraints: Reconstructing and Analyzing 3D Unsteady Wakes Behind Inclined Cubes
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-year	Thermofluids	Multiphysics Modeling of a Fabry-Perot Optical Pressure Transducer for Enhanced Performance and Reliability in High-Temperature, High-Pressure Liquid Environments
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Human Factors	Telematics Based Driver Behaviour Intervention for Fleet Safety
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-year	Thermofluids	Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) Simulations of Flow Past a Single Cube at Various Angles of Attack
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-year	Thermofluids	AI Segmentation of Turbulent Flow Structure
8-Jul-25	Mechanical and Industrial	Full-year	Thermofluids	Development of Laser-Based Flow Visualization Techniques for Pitching Airfoil Aerodynamic Analysis
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-year	Thermofluids	Modeling Wettability and Structured Surfaces Using Lattice Boltzmann Methods
8-Jul-25	Industrial	Winter	Operations Research	Developing and solving integer programming models for network clustering problems
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Mechanics & Design	Automated Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Processing of Ultrathin Collagen Sheets using MATLAB
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Mechanics & Design	Automated Measurement of Pressure-Diameter Relationships for Cannulated Collagen Tubes
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Mechanics & Design	Continuous Feed for Biofabricating Load Bearing Structures
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Mechanics & Design	Optimizing the in-situ delivery of granular bioinks for promoting the healing of burn wounds
8-Jul-25	Mechanical	Full-Year	Materials	Angle-Ply Collagen Structures for tissue Engineering Applications

Research projects are added on an ongoing basis, please check back often!