Automotive engineering

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Manufacturing and Dynamic Systems

• Automotive engineering
• electric vehicle design
• Automation and robotics
• machine vision for inspection
• Manufacturing engineering
• rapid laminated tool prototyping
• Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
• micro sensors and actuators

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Computer Aided Design of an Electrical Vehicle
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Materials Engineering

• Biomaterials
• Micromechanics of Deformation
• Advanced Neutron/X-ray Scattering
• Applied Engineering Mechanics, Components,
  Processing
• Microstructural Phenomena in Metals and Alloys
• Materials for Transportation Applications
• Nuclear materials/zirconium alloys
• Crystallographic texture/anisotropy
• Processing and Properties of Ceramics
• Ceramic Matrix Composites
• Functional/Electronic Ceramics
• Modelling Materials Behaviour
• Metallographic Image Analysis
• Metal Forming

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Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

• 5 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

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Laser Ceramic Machining System
UV Laser
CO2 Laser
NdYAG Laser

• System Capabilities
• Unique multi-laser setup
• Six-axis motion system
• Precise motion control
• Suitable for traditional 2-D machining cutting,
  drilling

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Biomechanical Engineering

• Artificial knees
• Computer assisted surgery
• Human motion analysis
• Rehabilitation technology
• Tissue engineering

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Testing and Evaluation The Niagara Foot
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Gadi Mobility Device
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Energy and Fluids Systems

• Fluid Dynamics
• Turbulence, CFD, Gas Dynamics, Multiphase
• Thermodynamics
• Energy Conversion, Cycles, processes, combustion,
  detonations,
• Heat Transfer
• Conduction, convection, radiation

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• Specialized fire testing

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• CFD for design

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Funding Sources

• External Scholarships (NSERC, OGS,..)
• Queens scholarships (usually partial funding)
• Supervisors research grants/contracts
• Teaching Assistantship (Fall and Winter Terms)

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Research Centres Led by MME Faculty
Centre for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
(CAMM)
Centre for Manufacturing of Advanced Ceramics and
Nanomaterials (CMACN)
Human Mobility Research Centre (HMRC)
Fuel Cell Research Centre (FCRC)
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