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Hi all. First off, don't bother wasting your time reading this if you have never in your life considered medicine as a career choice. In this case, please read and answer my questions that are bolded at the bottom. I am currently a high school senior and am currently in the process of...

Hello I'm a senior at RHS in Hawaii and I need help in finding a senior project topic and thesis. I am extremely interested in physics and astronomy. Anything that has to do with the sky and beyond deeply interests me. However I do not know what to make a thesis out of those. I am in AP...

Hello everyone, I come to these forums from time to time, and I am glad to see a forum dedicated to academics such as you all are. If it wouldn't be too bothersome, I just wanted to see what advice I could get about my senior year of high school. I am currently sitting with almost all my...

Hi all, I'm a phys junior in Spain thinking of doing my final undergrad year in another country in the EU, assuming I maintain my grant status in my senior year. My uni offers an exchange program at Copenhagen university which really caught my eye. There are many final year electives/grad...

Hi Folks, I didn't know exactly where to put this post, so if it's in the wrong section, I apologize. On to it then. I'm in my final year in EE, and I want to work on a project that let's me become comfortable with RF/Communications concepts commonly run into in industry. I was...

Good day Physic Forum: I am a third year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Technology, Jamaica, where I specialize in Instrumentation and Control System. I have being in the process of brain storming ideas for my senior project from early as March of this year and up to this...

Hello everyone, I know that I've been asking a lot of questions lately and I am very thankful for the advice given to me thus far on this board. I am currently in running start right now and have been taking a full time college load for the last year at my community college but looking back at...

Hi all, I'm a graduating senior next semester and I need to choose my senior project topic by the end of May. The problem is that I have NO idea where to even start looking. Anyone have any ideas? I am interested in number theory, and some differential equations but NOT linear or abstract...

I'm a junior in high school and I'm planning to be an engineer when I grow up. Below is the schedule for senior year and I am wondering what classes would be the best choice for being an engineer. Honors English 4 Calculus AP Physics B AP Psychology AP Macroeconomics Fine/Applied Art (Needed...

High School senior confused in life... :( :confused: I was wondering if anyone had any insight as to which career path I should take? I am interested astronautical engineering, because of my love of space and designing spacecraft seems incredibly interesting and fun... It would be a...

Hi everybody.. i shall start my senior project soon ... what I'm looking for now is the topic of the project .. I'm interested specifically in the structural analysis .. your ideas and advises are very welcomed

Hello. I am getting ready to start my senior year in college for EET. I had to come up with a senior project, design, and fabricate it. I have an idea of what I want to do but need help understanding it and what product is suffecient for my idea and cost effective for a college student...

Hey all, Well for my senior project my class has to construct a mini grid. It will be connected to 3 renewable energy sources. My team is in charge of the connections to the grid and the energy sources. My team has decided to use a PIC micro controller to interface to the other groups. I am...

I'm having a hard time getting scholarships. As a senior in high school, I got one that is about $2,000 a year, but that is all that I've gotten. My parents make enough that I am not considered for the semi-need based ones, and I'm not outstanding enough that I can really get the super...

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to be posting this question, but since it is related to school I hope it will do. I am currently a senior in high school and I am required to write an 8-10 page paper on a topic of my choosing. The main requirement is that I must argue a point...

I currently have all credits completed for a B.S. in Biochemistry from the department of Biology at a top 50 university with a 3.2 GPA. I'm staying this last year to finish my few remaining GE requirements. However, I am deeply dissatisfied with my degree. I've spoken to other biological...

I am a senior Physics/Math major. I want to go to grad school (99% sure) but I am not ready to start immediately after undergrad, I hope to bike to and live in South America next year. My question is, how harmful will this be to my chances at getting into a top tier physics Pd.D. program the...

Hi, I am having a hard time figuring out an idea I can use as my senior project in High School. I am currently in an Honors level physics class and the school year has just begun so we haven't learned much yet but. I am very interested in physics. So if anyone could help me with some ideas it...

Hello everyone! I have recently decided that I want to pursue a career in software engineering, but the problem is that I haven’t taken many courses in it. I’ll briefly describe where I’m at now: I’m a senior physics major, and I had originally planned on doing some sort of medical physics or...

Hi all, I am an EE senior in college and am taking a senior design course this semester before I graduate. It involves either choosing to undertake an educational project that one of the class professors suggests or using one of our own ideas. The course lasts a single semester and we are in...

thanks everyone I found an answer

Good evening, I am in high school (well we would have called it secondary school but I'm assuming most of you are Americans) in Ireland, I will be a senior (Americanism again.. :p) next year (i.e. finishing in 2011) and I have a keen interest in science (particularly physics) and mathematics...

Hi I'm a sophomore and I'm barely getting into research now. I plan to do an REU next summer , Junior year, and one after that, Senior year. Do grad schools even get to look at what you did Senior year summer? If so, that would mean we basically only have 3 summers to do research. freshman...

Currently, I'm a junior Biology/Studio Art major who became disillusioned by the allied health field very early on and then the biological research field very recently. I have been looking for something else to do with my life, but every subject (psychology, English, chemistry, biology, history...

I'm a 4th year college student who has studied 2 years of sociology, and 2 years of film. With summer studies, I could graduate this fall with an SOC. degree, but have little interest in doing this other than that I would have a B.S. to mark up my resume. I have been thinking long and hard, for...

The best I could possibly get in with all my effort (whether this is be the #5 CS grad school in the nation, or #40, does not really matter.. as long as I take the most optimal path there and do it ethically). I was wondering what aspects the best/better CS grad schools look for in a college...

Hello all, I'm a senior in Engineering Physics, about to graduate in May with a bachelors, and I'm looking for a job. I'm not sure where to look. What kinds of companies hire people like me (especially companies in Illinois)? The classes I've taken include the basic physics core (mechanics...

Problem: I have to do a required senior project for high school. My topic is the general physics behind deep space travel. (like humans traveling to other solar systems in reasonable time). I need to do a project on it but do not know what exactly to do. Please Give Me Ideas! Basically, I...

Hey all, I think what I'm looking for is pretty self explanatory. If this isn't the right forum to post this question in, feel free to yell at me and i'll post it elsewhere. As some background, I am a senior electrical engineering major at a major university. I am in a senior design...

Hello fellow engineers! I am a senior in high school and in love with everything science/math/engineering related. Starting within the next few weeks or so is the Senior project that everybody has to complete on any project of their choice. It's always been my dream to build a simple...

I am currently a senior in high school and I am working towards a career which involves the study of physics. I am somewhat aware of independent research opportunities for high school students in other areas of science, but I do not know of any opportunities which I could explore for physics...

In my university there is a senior project class in which the whole semester you try to engineer something to show off all of the knowledge you've gained thus far. In the past projects have been things such as online social networks, video games, underwater robotics, business software, etc...

Hello everyone, I am an looking for a senior project for aerospace engineering. In my Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) course it came up that one of the many applications of CFD is astrophysics and the modeling of planet/star formation. Our professor suggested it to me as a...

Well it's my senior year and I was pretty set on being an engineer. But an engineering student came in and talked to us about what it is like. He said that it was nothing like what he imagined; he became an engineer because he wanted to be active doing things and creating things. He said that...

I am currently working on my senior design project. My idea is to create a system that will detect when a person has mail in their mailbox and notify that person by transmitting a signal to a box in the house that will light an LED. I am planning on using a PARALAX motion sensor in the mailbox...

i am a senior in high school and i am starting to really like math sould i try going into something with math?

I am in my senior years. I am applying to the University of Toronto, St.George Campus as my first, the other campus ranking in 2nd and 3rd. I have applied to University of Waterloo in Canada as well. However, my real problem/question is "Do I have what it takes?" Last year in (I...

Hey everyone, I'm currently a high school senior and I was just wondering if there was anything I could do this upcoming summer to help boost my application for graduate school. I know it is way far down the road, but seeing many of you guys report on how difficult it is to get into a top 5...

Hi everyone. So I am almost a senior math student. The senior year is obviously difficult and the classes small, and I was worried that I am not going to be friends with any of the other senior math students. This means I will be working on my own as opposed to in a group like the other...

Our group has come across a few iinteresting ideas. We would really like to do something with aviation and control, but it needs to be more on the EE side than the CSE side where there's a lot of programming that can be done... ANY IDEAS in general much appreciated... FOR those of you who...

I will be going into my senior year of my engineering physics major with a minor in mechanical engineering and mathematical science. I have made posts in Nuclear Engineering, and Clerk[patent] jobs, etc. because I have no idea what I want to do after I graduate. I'll have to admit, money is...

I must do a senior project this year and I have formulated an idea and I would like to know how I can manipulate the idea to make the project the best quality possible. Idea: I want to go to engineering school so I am going to purchase a vex robotics kit (well the school will at least)...

I was not sure where to put this, but since I am looking for Astronomy related ideas, I thought this would be a good place. A bit of background. I am an electrical engineering major, and I'll be starting my senior design project this year. My interests outside of engineering are in physics. I...

I am having an awful time trying to find a topic... any help would be appreciated

I am going to be a high school senior, on my way to receiving an IB diploma, as well as having taken AP European History (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP Music Theory (4, but taken as an independent study) and am enrolled in AP Calculus AB (might switch to BC). So far I have taken two IB tests...

Deciding between 2 senior project areas -- switching from EE to physics Hi, I'm a final year EE undergrad who has taken senior level physics courses on quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, relativity and quantum field theory (next semester). I'm considering a switch to physics, and I'm...

Group 1: ME 422 ---- Introduction to Combustion ME 423 ---- Intermediate Mechanics of Deformable solids ME 425 ---- Experimental Mechanics ME 426 ---- Introduction to Composite Materials ME 432 ---- Intermediate Fluid Mechanics ME 440 ---- Aerospace Engineering Fundamentals ME 444 ----...

Hey everyone, Im thinking a bit ahead here, but I figure its a good idea to get started early. I am currently a ME undergrad soon to be junior with an interest in AE. Senior year we have to do a year long design project and I was thinking about doing something involving AE... the only...

I will be an undergraduate senior next year and I am a double major (physics, comp sci). For computer science I have to do a senior project. The only rules besides the obvious being that it has to expand what was taught in class. I want my project to implement physics principles and theory...

Hello to all, I am just about to start working on my senior thesis (I'm not sure if this is the exact equivalent term in english speaking countries - basically, it's the thesis you have to do in order to finish your studies and gain your engineering degree), which I selected to be in the...