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For an A.B. degree, a research thesis is strongly encouraged but not required; a thesis is necessary to be considered for High or Highest Honors. Additionally, a thesis will be particularly useful for students interested in pursuing graduate engineering research.
In the S.B. degree programs, every student completes a design thesis as part of the required senior capstone design course (ES 100hf). During the year-long course students design and prototype a solution to an engineering problem of their own choice.
The guide below provides an overview of the requirement for an A.B. thesis in Mechanical Engineering:
Some recent thesis examples across all of SEAS can be found on the Harvard DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) repository .
Thesis extensions will only be granted in extraordinary circumstances, such as hospitalization or grave family emergency. An extension may only be granted by the DUS (who may consult with thesis advisor, resident dean, and readers). For joint concentrators, the other concentration should also support the extension. To request an extension, please email your ADUS or DUS, ideally several business days in advance. Please note that any extension must be able to fall within our normal grading, feedback, and degree recommendation deadline, so extensions of more than a few days are usually impossible.
Late submissions of thesis work will not be accepted. A thesis is required for joint concentrators, and a late submission will prevent a student from fulfilling this requirement. Please plan ahead and submit your thesis by the required deadline.
Senior A.B. theses are submitted to SEAS and made accessible via the Harvard University Archives and optionally via DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard), Harvard's open-access repository for scholarly work.
In addition to submitting to the department and thesis advisors & readers, each SEAS senior thesis writer will use an online submission system to submit an electronic copy of their senior thesis to SEAS; this electronic copy will be kept at SEAS as a non-circulating backup. Please note that the thesis won't be published until close to or after the degree date. During this submission process, the student will also have the option to make the electronic copy publicly available via DASH. Basic document information (e.g., author name, thesis title, degree date, abstract) will also be collected via the submission system; this document information will be available in HOLLIS , the Harvard Library catalog, and DASH (though the thesis itself will be available in DASH only if the student opts to allow this). Students can also make code or data for senior thesis work available. They can do this by posting the data to the Harvard Dataverse or including the code as a supplementary file in the DASH repository when submitting their thesis in the SEAS online submission system.
Whether or not a student opts to make the thesis available through DASH, SEAS will provide an electronic record copy of the thesis to the Harvard University Archives. The Archives may make this record copy of the thesis accessible to researchers in the Archives reading room via a secure workstation or by providing a paper copy for use only in the reading room. Per University policy , for a period of five years after the acceptance of a thesis, the Archives will require an author’s written permission before permitting researchers to create or request a copy of any thesis in whole or in part. Students who wish to place additional restrictions on the record copy in the Archives must contact the Archives directly, independent of the online submission system.
Students interested in commercializing ideas in their theses may wish to consult Dr. Fawwaz Habbal , Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics, about patent protection. See Harvard's policy for information about ownership of software written as part of academic work.
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The Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering prepares students for careers in research and academia. Our collaborative faculty are investigating a diverse range of research areas like additive manufacturing, air quality, cellular biomechanics, computational design, DNA origami, energy conversion and storage, nanoscale manufacturing, soft robotics, transdermal drug delivery, transport phenomena, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
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Students typically complete the Ph.D. degree requirements in three to five years. Early in the program, students focus on course-work that enhances their knowledge as they prepare to conduct research.
Within one year, students must pass the departmental qualifying exam, an oral exam that tests research skills and knowledge of a core mechanical engineering subject area.
Student research forms the core of the Ph.D. program. Research involves active student-directed inquiry into an engineering problem, culminating in a written thesis and oral defense.
The majority of full-time Ph.D. students accepted through the standard application process receive fellowships that cover full tuition, the technology fee, and a stipend for living expenses for up to five years, as long as sufficient progress is made toward degree completion. These awards are sufficient to cover all expenses for the year (including summers). Students are required to pay for health insurance, the transportation fee, the activity fee, books, and course supplies. Off-campus housing is available within walking distance of campus. At least one year of residency is required for the Ph.D. We offer two ways to enter the Ph.D. program.
The advanced entry Ph.D. is for students with an M.S. in an engineering discipline or equivalent field.
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Digital Commons @ USF > College of Engineering > Mechanical Engineering > Theses and Dissertations
The Analysis of Mechanical Exfoliation of Graphene for Various Fabrication and Automation Techniques, Lance Yarbrough
Explore the collection of mechanical engineering theses from UMass scholars on the DSpace digital repository.
Brigham Young University's open access repository's section for electronic theses and dissertations concerning mechanical engineering.
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Old Dominion University since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from the University of Kentucky Department of Mechanical Engineering are available here.
MechE-specific structure requirements Your thesis proposal should be limited to 6 pages including figures and references. In addition, you need a cover page that (only) includes: tentative title of the thesis your name brief abstract keywords a list of your committee members committee chair and/or advisor should be indicated include their official titles, departmental affiliations, and email ...
Accepted by: Department of Mechanical Engineering December 3, 2021 Warren Seering Professor of Mechanical Engineering Thesis Supervisor Kenneth Kamrin Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Officer Strengths and Challenges of Mechanical Design Processes in a Federally Funded Research and Development Center by Mariana Sofia ...
Auxetic materials also exhibit mechanical properties that are unique compared to conventional materials including indentation resistance, shear resistance and fracture resistance. In my thesis work, I have explored four kinds of auxetic designs with interesting properties.
MIT's DSpace contains more than 58,000 theses completed at MIT dating as far back as the mid 1800's. Theses in this collection have been scanned by the MIT Libraries or submitted in electronic format by thesis authors. Since 2004 all new Masters and Ph.D. theses are scanned and added to this collection after degrees are awarded.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014. Investigation of the effects of a blade profile geometry in a hinged blade cross axis turbine, Arvin H. Fernando. Design of a fuzzy GS-PID controller for payload drops of varying mass for a quadrotor, Ivan Henderson V. Gue. Energy audit of St. Joseph Hall and Miguel Hall of De La Salle University, Oswald D. Sapang.
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports Explore our collection of dissertations, master's theses and master's reports from the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics below.
Fluidic logic for the control and design of soft robotic systems . Mahon, Stephen Thomas (The University of Edinburgh, 2024-08-08) State-of-the-art in robotics are machines that do jobs. These jobs, for instance, can be automated routine procedures for delivering services with minimal human intervention or the task of building, maintaining ...
An example of a recent MS thesis prospectus can be found in the Mechanical Engineering office. The examining committee for MS candidates completing theses should be composed of three (3) members. The committee chair is normally a full-time, tenure-track faculty member. One committee member must be from outside the ME department.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2024. 2024. 4/18/2024. Dinesh Kumar Bommidi - Author. Andrea D. Pickel - Thesis Advisor. Application of grinding fundamentals to develop material-specific relationships in the dental-grinding procedure. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester.
Senior Thesis. For an A.B. degree, a research thesis is strongly encouraged but not required; a thesis is necessary to be considered for High or Highest Honors. Additionally, a thesis will be particularly useful for students interested in pursuing graduate engineering research. In the S.B. degree programs, every student completes a design ...
Thesis Final year students in Mechanical Engineering and Postgraduate coursework students are required to undertake a three-term, year long project. These projects are usually open-ended research or design projects, where the student works with an academic supervisor to find an answer to an engineering question.
Master's Thesis topics. I am a Master's student in Mechanical Engineering. I have no experience in the market (haven't worked as a mechanical engineer yet). I have been talking to professors about Thesis Topics can be worked on, but haven't been convinced with a good topic gives me an advantage in the market. Please think with me what best can ...
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering. Students typically complete the Ph.D. degree requirements in three to five years. Early in the program, students focus on course-work that enhances their knowledge as they prepare to conduct research.
In addition to the microstructure, an understanding of the mechanical properties of these materials is also vital. Hence, an in-depth investigation on how microstructural phase distribution and their respective mechanical properties connect to macroscopic deformation behavior is required.
a Master Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl ... Compared to the sample prepared via a two-step immobilization process (PUF/PDA/GCN-2), the sample prepared through the one-step immobilization process (PUF/PDA/GCN-1) exhibited a more uniform distribution of ...
Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering. GPA: 3.55 May 2025 Relevant Coursework: Computer Aided Machine Design, Thermodynamics, Engineering Design Seminar, Solid Mechanics, Mechanical Systems, Materials, Data Structures and Algorithms . Design Project: Aerobic Charge: Converting kinetic energy during exercise to electrical charge.