BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
This fully accredited, and well respected, programme of study allows students to develop a firm foundation in the principles of Mechanical Engineering. Our graduates have found employment in a diverse range of industries. That diversity is mirrored in the range of dissertation projects our students conduct, examples of which you will find here.
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The Effect of Annealing on the Mechanical Property Characteristics of Alloy 42
There is 42% nickel and 58 % iron in alloy 42 and it has numerous applications depending upon its p...
A Heat Decarbonisation Study of a Domestic Building in the UK
The aim of this report is to identify the impact of improving building fabrication and heating sour...
Fracture Toughness of Coated Engineering Polymers
This project investigates the effect of a thin brittle coating applied to a more ductile parent mate...
How Weather patterns affect the understanding of the degradation of the solar radiation conversion to electrical energy.
The project covers multiple aspects of the conversion of solar radiation to electrical energy as th...
An Investigation into the Operational Profile of Small Vessels
This report aimed to analyse the operational profile of small marine vessels, to propose adjustment...
Development and analysis of a composite patch deployment system for minimising cure time.
Project background This project was first considered whilst working with Waterworxz, during a...
An Investigation into the Technology Transfer of poka yoke into a Hospitality Environment.
Cosy Club Plymouth is a restaurant with frequent quality control and inventory issues within the ba...
Investigation of the Effect of Graphene Nanoplatelet Reinforcement on the Mode II Fracture Toughness of Adhesively Bound Composites
This project aimed to investigate the effects of using graphene to reinforce an adhesive epoxy joi...
CFD study on the impact of an end plate on an open-wheel racing car front wing
This was a computational study that aimed to investigate the impact of an endplate on the performan...
Analysis of thermal barrier coatings Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
The thermal spraying of thermal barrier coatings is investigated in this dissertation using smoothed...
Design a Solar Water Heater to Reduce Heat Overload in Summer
Solar heating is the most important environmentally friendly technology, and among these uses is sol...
The Design and Construction of a Safe and Efficient Laboratory Scale Propane Forge
The forging industry has evolved to utilise a range of forges to heat and work metals for product p...