How Mechanical Engineers should select a good Mini Project Topic?

Mini project is one of the integral parts of mechanical engineering curriculum where the students can learn and equip new skill sets by building projects practically. By doing good mini projects, students can develop more skills in addition to the technical skills like critical thinking, problem solving ability, collaborating with team members, solving problems hands-on etc. This will also help them to showcase their practical skills to the recruiters and impress them. But many mechanical engineering students fail to do a good mini project - the main reason being selecting a bad mini project topic.

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Here are some tips for mechanical engineering students to select a good mini project topic.

1. Analyse your area of interest:

Mechanical engineering is one of the oldest core engineering branches that offers wide range of technologies and you should be careful in selecting the right technology for your mini project. Doing mini projects on your area of interest should be preferred as it serves as a platform to increase your skillset and master that particular domain. First you need to identify the common areas of interest of your team and then you can start looking for different topics. This way, you will save lots of time and confusion. Once you have identified your areas of interest, you can browse internet to find some innovative topics. You can also refer to online journals to get some valuable suggestions.

2. Multi-disciplinary projects:

Engineers with multi-disciplinary knowledge have better scope when compared to conventional engineers, as most of the industries of now require engineers with such skills.. For this, you can do multi-disciplinary mini projects to extend your knowledge database to other engineering streams in a practical manner. Before selecting the mini project topic, you can check for the different technologies that you can integrate and build your project. By this way you can select a very innovative topic and increase your skillsets.

3. Project on latest trends:

Most of the concepts that you learn in colleges are very basic and technologies as their main purpose is to make you understand the core concepts of mechanical engineering. But most of the technologies used in industries are very new and are not thoroughly touched by your classroom curriculum. So you can utilize mini projects to learn and build projects on latest technologies to increase your learning and practical skills in areas relevant to industry. You can get information about the trending topics by subscribing to technology blogs, reading latest tech news etc.and then choose an effective mini project topic. By doing this you can increase your awareness on the latest technological trends and utilize mini projects to showcase them.

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4. Scope for upgradation:

The scope of your mini project should be such that you can do research on them later and build it into a bigger project. By doing such projects you can master the particular technology and become a pioneer on it. Before finalising with the mini project topic, look for the future scope that the project may hold and decide upon that. Mini projects that have better future scope will stand out from the other conventional projects and gives you an added advantage.

5. Better learning opportunity:

Mini projects that offer better learning opportunities should be preferred over the other projects. The main objective of including mini projects onto your curriculum is to provide a platform for you to learn and practice relevant skills. And one of the important aspects of mini project is your presentation on them which will expose your learning from the projects to your project externals as well as to your recruiters. So you need to do mini project on topics that offers a good learning opportunity for you. You can list out the concepts that you will be learning by doing that project and check for the usefulness of those concepts in today’s world.. This will help you to select a mini project topic which not only helps you to get good grades but also helps you to land in a better job.

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Here we are suggesting some of the good mechanical (mech) mini projects that you can take up and build at your own convenience:

• CNC Machine using Arduino
• Automobile Prototyping
• CFD
• Robotic Arm
• Hexapod
• Gesture Based Robotics
• Mobile Robotics
• Bluetooth Robotics
• Swarm Robotics
• Sensor Guided Robotics
• Voice Controlled Robot
• WiFi Controlled robot

Good luck! Do comment below with your opinions and suggestions.

How Mechanical Engineers should select a good Mini Project Topic?