1) What is finite element analysis? Explain the application areas in mechanical Engineering and
the advantages & disadvantages. Give the examples about the softwares that used for this
purpose.
2) Compare the LPG, diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles according to efficiency, torque and
power.
3) Classify the farm machinery, explain briefly.
4) What are the composite materials used in aeronautical and aerospace industry? Explain the
production methods.
5) What are the properties, application areas and production methods of shape memory alloys?
6) What are the factors affecting vehicle handling? What are the methods to improve the
vehicle handling and the equipments used in vehicle handling?
7) What is the working principle of vehicle airbag systems?
8) What is laser beam? What are the laser types? What are the application areas in industry?
9) What are the factors affecting the range of a bullet? Explain by examining mathematical
models and simulation tools.
10) Give information about present and future of robot technology.
11) What are autonomous vehicles? Where are they used?
12) What is hydroforming manufacturing process? Explain it.
13) What is Internal Navigation System (INS), how does it work? Explain the applications.
14) What is ground effect vehicle? Explain the working principles.
15) What is the automatic control in heating system? Investigate the application areas.
16) What are mathematical modeling and simulation? Explain the importance and necessity in
design.
17) What is resonance? What is the importance of resonance in mechanical system?
18) Investigate diesel cycle and stirling cycle, explain the application areas, examine the
efficiency of these cycles.
19) What are the technologies that are improved for formula vehicles and how do they affect the
vehicle performance? Which are allowed to be used? Which are forbidden?
20) Classify the propulsion systems, explain the types, and indicate the application areas.
21) What is industrial robot? What are the application areas and advantages?
22) What are patent, utility model and copyright? Why and how do they get?
23) What are the applications of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)? What are the
production methods?
24) What is control engineering? What are the scientific disciplines regarding to control
engineering? What are the application areas?
25) What is robotics? What are the scientific disciplines regarding to robotics? What are the
application areas?
26) What are the descriptions, relations and differences of microprocessor and microcontroller?
What are the application areas in terms of mechanical engineering?
27) Examine the formation and evolution of programming languages and investigate the
application areas in present day.
28) Examine the rotating-wing aircrafts. Express the types and technologies.
29) Investigate the morphing aircrafts. Express the types and technologies.
30) Examine the unmanned air vehicles. Express the technologies and application areas.
31) Examine the unmanned sea vehicles. Express the technologies and application areas.
32) Examine the humanoid robots. Express the technologies and application areas.
33) Examine the bio-inspired robotics. Express the technologies and application areas.
34) Examine the kilobot. Express the technologies and application areas.
35) Examine the technologies that are used out of engine in automobiles.
36) Examine the scientific research incentives (TUBİTAK, Ministry of Industry. etc.) in the last 50
years in Turkey and the technology development policies. Compare with the technology
development policies of other countries such as South Korea, India, China.
37) Examine EU framework programs and the supports which are given to scientific and
technological researches. Exemplify to the most important projects that are realized by these
supports.
38) What are waste incineration technologies? Examine the technical, economical and
environmental advantages and disadvantages.
39) What is fluidized bed combustion? Examine the working principles and application areas.
Explain the technical and economical advantages and disadvantages in comparison with
other combustion processes.
40) Investigate the pipe flow. Examine the laminar flow, transition and turbulent flow.
41) What is flow pump? Classify. Explain the pump selection criteria. Demonstrate on an
application.
42) What is drag? What is terminal velocity? In which conditions does it gain importance? Why?
What should be done to decrease/increase the drag?
43) What is volumetric flow rate? Classify the flow meters. Indicate the types, working principles
and application areas.
44) What is mach number? Examine the utilization in mechanical engineering?
45) Examine the working principles of air compressors. Explain the types and application areas in
industry.
46) Examine the rocket engine and rocket fuels. Explain the types and application areas by
economically and technically.
47) What is magneto-hydrodynamic? Where is it used in industry?
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49) What is calibration? How is it applied in the measurement devices? Examine by examples.
50) What is casting? Explain the casting methods.
51) What are mass production and flexible production system? Explain by examples.
52) What is plastic injection? Explain the working principles and application areas.
53) What is armor? What are the types? Classify and introduce from oldest to newest
technology.
54) What is extrusion? How is it performed? What are the equipment used in extrusion? Explain
the working principles.
55) Introduce the international materials selection catalogue, provide information about the
utilization.
56) What are the mechanical and thermal material features? Explain the measurement
techniques.
57) How is metallic foam produced? What is the application areas?
58) What is sandwich plate system? Investigate the application areas and production methods.
59) What is plastic recycling? Investigate the processes.
60) What is self-healing materials? How does it work? What is the application areas?
61) Examine the parabolic trough solar collectors and heliostats. Compare the working principles,
application areas and efficiency. Explain the main differences with flat plate solar collectors.
62) Investigate the solar water heating system. Examine the types of flat plate solar collector and
investigate the selection criteria.
63) Determine the components that composed a flat plate solar collector. Examine the effect on
the collector efficiency of these components.
64) What is concentrated solar power? Investigate the concentrating solar collector types and
their application areas. Compare the efficiency with flat plate collectors.
65) Investigate the solar azimuth angle. Examine the utilization in solar energy calculation.
66) What is solar chimney? What is the intended purpose? Investigate the application areas.
67) Introduce the working principle of solar panels and the generation of electricity using solar
energy.
68) What is heat exchanger? Investigate the types. Compare the application areas and efficiency.
69) What is heat gain in buildings? In which designs should be considered? Examine the
calculations of heat gain.
70) What is heat loss in buildings? In which designs should be considered? Examine the
calculations of heat gain.
71) What is physchometric chart? In which calculations are they used? Examine the variables
that affected the chart.
72) Investigate the renewable energy resources. Examine the types, performances and
application areas.
73) Examine the heat notation and units, the temperature measuring device in industry, the
measurement methods and application areas.
74) Describe the fuel types in industry. Examine in terms of efficiency and cost.
75) Explain the main heat transfer types. Discuss the application areas in mechanical
engineering.
76) Investigate the types of power plant. Examine in terms of environmental impact, efficiency,
initial investment cost and operating cost.
77) What is heat recovery? Explain the heat recovery applications with examples.
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79) Examine the air pollution resulted from combustion and investigate the control and
reduction of air pollution.
80) What are water softening and filtration? Examine the softening and filtration devices which
are used in the market and investigate the working principles.
81) Examine the working principles of industrial ice machines which are used in restaurants and
bars. Examine the system which provides automatically pouring of ices.
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85) What is hydrogen energy? In which areas is it used? Compare technically and economically
with other clean energy types. Explain the automobile technologies which are driven by
hydrogen fuel cell.
86) What are alternative fuel types? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
87) What is heavy equipment? Explain the types, working principles and application areas.