Stages: Placements for Foreign Students
Lists of Subjects & Projects
A variety of projects are available, supervised by a number of University staff. Details of Engineering and Science and Physics projects may be found below.
Where two students have an interest in the same topic it may be possible to arrange for the project to be expanded to accommodate multiple students. Two or more students working together can provide advantages to both the students and the supervisor.
Physics Projects
Given below is a list of physics project titles available in Physics.
- Visual Pyrometry
- Glass colour and ion-ion redox
- X-Y scanning of magnetic fields using various magnetic field sensors
- Source identification using inverse processing of magnetic fields
- Investigation of the behaviour of magnetic field sensor arrays
- Ultrasonic transducer manufacture and test using piezoelectric ceramic foams
- Testing of two-dimensional ultrasonic arrays for three-dimensional imaging
- Applications of high frequency ultrasound transducers
- Construction and demonstration of a piezoelectric ceramic cantilever
- Testing of underwater ultrasound transducers made with single crystal piezoelectric materials
- Measuring the characteristics of some new single crystal piezoelectric materials
- The use of a radiation force balance for ultrasonic transducer testing
- Muon Lifetime measurements
- Implementation of the Detector Simulation Software GEANT4 within a parallel environment
- Thin Film Characterisation (1 & 2)
- Transparent Conducting Films
- Optical emission from Sputtering Plasmas
- Measurement of Oxygen during Sputtering of Oxide thin films
- Convection Viscometry
More detail on the physics is available here
Engineering & Science Projects
Engineering and Science projects cover the areas of biology, geology, engineering management, mathematics, chemistry, physics and environmental, civil and mechanical engineering. Students are encouraged to work on projects that are not necessarily in their primary field of study. For example an engineering student could undertake a mathematics project or a biology student could look at a geology project. Such cross discipline study enriches both the student and the work that they do.
Furthermore, students should pay more attention to the project title and description as opposed to the academic discipline of the lecturer. For example one of the Civil Engineering lecturers is dealing with a project for a student of library sciences.
Where two students have an interest in the same topic we should be able to arrange for the project to be expanded to accommodate multiple students. Two or more students working together provide advantages to both the students and the supervisor.
Summary List of Engineering and Science Projects
- Biodiversity interpretation and display - Biology
- Investigating the Use of Remote Sensing in Urban Areas - Civil Engineering
- Investigating Flow in Porous Pipes - Civil Engineering
- Statistical Case Studies In Sport - Mathematics
- Evaluation of mathematical software - Mathematics
- Petrographic characterisation of potentially diamond-bearing metamorphic rocks from Norway - Geology
- Synthesis and Characterisation of Copper Superparamagnets - Chemistry
- Forensic analysis of fire debris using gas chromatography - Chemistry
- Computer Modelling of Environmental Pollution - Environmental Geochemistry
- Design of a Theme Park Rollercoaster - Civil Engineering
- Lime Based Mortars - Geology
- Project Based Experience in the University of the West of Scotland Library - Civil Engineering
- Pro-Engineer – Design of a dynamic wing as art - Civil Engineering
- A study of vibrations in flat plates - Mechanical Engineering
A more detailed list of engineering and science projects can be downloaded here..Engineering and ScienceSTAGESProjects.doc
The initial point of contact for the above engineering and science projects is Joe Heffernan.
e-mail: joe.heffernan@uws.ac.uk