Research

Dr. Peter L. Bishay

Available thesis topics

  • Check with Dr. Bishay.

Current thesis topics

  • Experimental and Computational Analyses of a Bio-Inspired Composite Bird-like Morphing Wing (Estefany Ortega, Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2024)

  • Development of a Foot Control System for Different Physical and Virtual Prosthetic Arms (Annamaria Viazzo, Sept. 2022 - Dec. 2024)

  • Experimental Characterization of the Dynamic Strength of Vibrating Metalic Beams (Erik Serrano, Sept. 2022 - May 2024)

  • Experimental and Computational Analysis of Periodic Laminated Sandwich Beams (Utsav Swami, July. 2022 - Aug. 2024)

  • Design of a Morphing Composite Wind Turbine Blade with Embedded Shape Memory Alloy Actuators (Antonio Buendia, Aug. 2021 - ??)

  • Development of a Multi-Morphing Composite Wing Skin (Andrew Heness, Aug. 2021 - ??)

Previous thesis topics

  • Static and Dynamic Analyses of Laminated Composite Beams with Delamination (Nelson Richardson, Aug. 2021 - May 2023)

  • Analysis and Design of a Morphing Composite Plate with Embedded SMA Wire Actuators (Andrew Theodore, Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2021)

  • Reliability Analysis of Smart Composite Structures using Artificial Neural Networks (James Martinez, Aug. 2019 - May 2021)

  • Analysis and Design of Periodic Composite Beams with Piezoelectric Elements (Arshak Amirbekyan, Aug. 2019 - May 2021)

  • Development of a Seamless Composite Skin for a Twist-Morphing Wing (Christian Aguilar, Aug. 2019 - May 2021)

  • Analysis of fiber-reinforced laminated periodic composite beams (Julian Rodriguez, Aug. 2018 - May 2020)

  • Computational Simulation of chemo-elastic solids (Nicholas Fabry, Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2017)

  • Computational analysis and design of periodic beams (Muzaffaruddin Syed, Mar. 2016 - Dec. 2017)

  • Thermo-electro-mechanical analysis of functionally graded quantum dots (Bhavin Sampat, Sept. 2015 - Aug. 2017)

  • Large deformation analysis of fiber-reinforced laminated composite beams (Ardalan R. Sofi, Oct. 2015 - May 2017)