Graduate Studies
The UPEI Master of Science in Sustainable Design Engineering (MSc-SDE) program aims to train graduates who have in-depth expertise in applying principles of sustainable design engineering to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research challenges. The MSc-SDE degree program is research-intensive and requires the students to work on their thesis under the supervision of an FSDE faculty member. Additionally, students are required to complete at least two (2) graduate-level courses. The current research themes in the FSDE are design engineering, engineering education, mechatronics, agriculture, bioresources, energy, materials, manufacturing and biomedical design. Most of the current research projects involve collaborators in other faculties, and are defined, sponsored and completed in close collaboration with industry and government organizations.
Project: Multi-Robot Systems
Multi-robotics is a field where a large number of robots are coordinated in a distributed way and inspired by social insects. Large numbers of simple robots can perform complex tasks in a more efficient way than a single robot, e.g., surveillance and monitoring, and search and rescue, thanks to its systematic scalability and applicable flexibility.
Student: Truong Nhu
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 1
Project: Development of an Attitude Determination and Control System
This work involves the design of the sensors, actuators, and software for adjusting the orientation of SpudNik-1, a CubeSat nanosatellite being developed by FSDE students in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency. Topics include sun sensors, magnetometers, gyroscopes, reaction wheels, magnetorquers, Kalman filtering, and PID control.
Student: Josh O'Neill
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 2
Project: 3D Perception for Human Intention and Motion Prediction
In this project, we will focus on fusing and integrating multiple sensory data sources to build up a 3D perception for human intention and motion prediction. Taking advantage of fast human detection and tracking using a laser ranging scanner and rich human and social interactive information using an RGB-D camera system, we will develop a horizontal-vertical sensory system to measure and estimate human intention and predict human motion. Using advanced sensor fusion and data association methods to inte- grate and enhance the laser scanner-based leg detection and tracking and the RGB-D-relied human facial and body identification and tracking is the main objective of this project.
Student: Hamed Bozorgi
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 3
Project: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Safer and More Efficient Marine Navigation
Creation and implementation of a user experience utilizing the Microsoft HoloLens 2, to add an additional tool for marine navigators to rely on in harsh marine environments.
Student: Rachel Dunn
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 4
Project: Investigation of the Impact of Encapsulation on Cell-to-Cell Interactions and Compound Release from Marine Bacteria
Marine microbes have the potential for developing new compounds such as antibiotics. But, the majority of them cannot be cultured in the lab. Our research team has developed a microbial domestication (MD) Pod that can isolate individual microbes while enabling them to interact with one another to address this challenge. My project is to investigate the impact of micro-encapsulation on cell-to-cell interactions and compound release from marine bacteria.
Student: Tina Navaei
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 5
Project: Chemical Crosslinking of Bioinks in Droplet-Based 3D Bioprinting
Dropled-based bioprinting is a precise deposition of bioink droplets to print 3D structures. I am investigating the effect of a wide range of parameters on the bioinks gelation process.
Student: Elias Madadian
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 6
Project: Benchmarking and Investigation of DMLS 3D Metal Printing Parameters and Print Quality
Metal additive manufacturing technologies like DMLS offer many production advantages such as complex geometries, but their use is still limited in industrial applications due to lack of standardization and inherent part properties such as high surface roughness, which requires laborious post-processing. This research looks at a method of validating consistent print quality between two printers and the reduction of as-built roughness for relevant applications.
Student: Lucas Gallant
Breakout Room: Graduate Project 7