2024-2025 ME402 Engineering Design Project Proposals
Dear students, ME402 Engineering Design projects are now available for 2024-2025 academic year. You can find the detailed information in the project proposal forms. Please make an application to the project supervisors as soon as possible if you are interested in a project. You can apply as a group or as an individual to form a group in the future. The project list will be updated if there is any new proposal. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Dr Büşra Karaş if you have any questions.
| # | Instructor | Project Title | Funding/Support | Research Topic(s) | # of project members | # of Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serhan Özdemir | Designing a Variable Stroke and Frequency Shaker for Fatigue Tests for Mechanical Parts | Design of control circuit and lcd interface, teardown of ultrasonic devices | 3 | 1 | |
| 2 | Serhan Özdemir | Designing an Ultrasonic Cleaner for Mechanical Parts | Design of control circuit and lcd interface, teardown of ultrasonic devices | 3 | 1 | |
| 3 | Şenay Mihçin/Serhan Özdemir | Rehabilitation device for a dropped foot problem | Foot drop problem, possible solutions in literature, use of FES, and any other rehab devices , design criteria for the rehab robot. | 4 | 1-3 | |
| 4 | Gökhan Kiper | Long range portable and rapidly deployable bridge design | deployable structures; mechanism design; structural analysis | 5 | 1-2 | |
| 5 | Gökhan Kiper | Design of olive tree shaker with a deployable umbrella | MECALAC | Harvesting machines, olive harvesting techniques, deployable structures | 5 | 1 |
| 6 | Gökhan Kiper | Design of manual olive harvesting machine | Harvesting machines, olive harvesting techniques, mechanical vibrations | 5 | 1 | |
| 7 | Halil Tetik | Development of an experimental setup and determination of optimum printing parameters for direct-ink-writing of soft elastomers | 3D printing of soft elastomers, Direct ink writing of elastomeric materials, optimization of 3D printing parameters | 5 | 1 | |
| 8 | Can Dede/Erdal Çetkin | Electro-hydraulic cylinder design | Current Electro-Hydraulic Actuator Designs, Hydraulic and Electric Motor Technologies, Actuator materials, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, System Integration and Modularity | will be determined | 1 | |
| 9 | Ünver Özkol | Design of a device for measuring moisture content of fibrous products such as cotton | Moisture sensing methods Calibration Techniquies Uncertainty determination Sensor Manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
