The third year undergraduate students have to conduct a one-year Final Year Design Project (MECH 4980 & MECH 4990) supervised by a faculty member. This FYDP project aims to develop a prototype of a working mechanical system, such as a walking robot, a micro fuel cell or a solar-powered water purification system, for example. In general, each FYDP team has three to five students. Students will meet once a week and submit one-page meeting minutes to the supervisor. Students will submit a summary report in a bi-weekly meeting with the supervisor. These minutes and bi-weekly summary reports will be appended to the reports to be submitted at the end of each semester. There will be two full reports, the Progress Report and the Final Report, which are submitted by each team at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters, respectively. Both reports should follow the departmental format and guidelines. In addition, there will be two oral presentations at the end of Fall and Spring semesters. The Progress Presentation can be made by two representative team members, whereas the Final Presentation should be made by all members of each group. The evaluation panel consists of faculty members from one of the three streams in the department.

Project Title	Supervisor	No. of Students
A Rotor Powered by the Sun	Prof W. J. YE	4 students
Design and development of a Fuel-Cell-Battery Hybrid Powered Dinosaur Pet	Prof T. S. ZHAO	4 students
Design and Fabrication of a Microfluidic CTC Chip for Cancer Diagnostics	Prof Y. K. LEE	3 or 4 students
Design and manufacture a mini robot for dancing	Prof Y. LENG	3 or 4 students
Design and Prototyping of 3D LED Cube and Sphere Displays	Prof Ricky S. W. LEE	4 students
Design of Radon Detector	Prof Z. G. LI	4 students
Development of a Nanofluid Enhanced Adsorption Cooling System	Prof Christopher Y. H. CHAO	3 or 4 students
Development of a Portable Surface Profiler	Prof Y. S. GAO	3 or 4 students
Development of an automatic system to determine gems’ shapes and dimensions	Prof L. CAI	4 students
Development of an EDM System for Micro Feature Machining	Prof Y. S. GAO	3 or 4 students
Development of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs)	Prof H. H. QIU	4 students
Development of Low-Cost Kite for Airborne Wind Turbines	Prof Francesco CIUCCI	4 students
Evaluation of a Wind Turbine Renewable Energy System	Prof Matthew M. F. YUEN	3 or 4 students
Intelligent Energy Management System for PCs and IT networks	Prof David C. C. LAM	3 or 4 students
Mini-green energy generator by thin NiTi wire	Prof Q. P. SUN	4 students
Remote Hill Fire Monitoring System	Prof Moses NG	3 or 4 students
Robotic Earthworm	Prof K. TANG	4 students
Self-powered Wireless Sensors for Environmental Monitoring	Prof Baoling HUANG	4 students
Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposites for Morphing Applications	Prof J. K. KIM	3 or 4 students
The Power Plant inside a Bag	Prof T. S. ZHANG	3 or 4 students
Thermal Characterization of Phase Change on Nanoengineered Surfaces	Prof S. H. YAO	3 or 4 students

Previous FYDP Projects


Prof Kai Tang
FYDP Program Coordinator
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Email: mektang@ust.hk