Thesis Projects

Engineering
Each year, several Engineering students will be doing their undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering (BE) or Master of Science (MSc or MCompSci) theses, focussing on some aspect of BLUEsat. Typically this comes about when existing BLUEsat members doing BE or BSc/BCompSci degrees enter fourth year, and wish to work on BLUEsat for their thesis. This allows them to work on BLUEsat while accruing course credit. Furthermore, if they are interested and committed in their field, the arduous task will be less tedious and more fun.

It is important to note that if you wish to begin a thesis with BLUEsat in this way, the learning curve is steep, and much time will be expended in learning about the various aspects of the satellite, and talking with the relevant team members. This does put somewhat of a burden on the team, since you must learn a lot, or just enough, in such a short period of time. Only then can you really begin your thesis in earnest. In this case, the thesis becomes rather tough, and hence it is not recommended. If you would like to do a thesis in space and satellites in UNSW, undoubtedly the best route is through BLUEsat, but you must join us in earlier years to avoid the aformentioned difficulties.

Another important point is that you can not expect BLUEsat or individual team members to contribute significant effort or time towards your thesis. All of the work will be your own, however you may be required to talk with other team members about various aspects of the design and construction. Unless you are willing to put in the effort and time, you will end up draining the resources of BLUEsat and will not obtain a good thesis mark.

On the other hand, many excellent theses have been written on aspects of satellite design and construction over the years, some of which have been referred to on a regular basis since. A good thesis will earn you status in eyes of engineers to come, while advancing the engineering standing of BLUEsat significantly.

A list of theses completed with BLUEsat is listed below. Unfortunately we cannot provide public access to the PDFs due to technology control laws which affect this field. BLUEsat members can access the PDFs with their login details. Email us if your thesis is missing from the list. If the link to the thesis is missing, either we do not have access to it or the author does not wish for it be made public.

Current Thesis Topics Availiable

	Division	Title	Supervisor	Description
	Elec\Power	BLUEsat Battery Charger	Torsten Lehmann

Current Active Thesis Topics

	Division	Title	Supervisor	Description
	Elec\FC	Hardware EDAC for Harsh Environments	Saeid Nooshabadi, David Taubman

Past Thesis Topics

	Year	Author(s)	Division	Title	PDF
	2005	Christopher Hales	Mech\Structure	Design and Manufacture of Integrated BLUEsat Structure
	2005	Vaenthan Thiruvarudchelvan	FC	The BLUEsat Flight Computer
	2004	Daniel Kim	Mech	.
	2004	Enrico Stoll	Mech\ADCS	Attitude Control System for BLUEsat Micro-satellite
	2004	Jeremy Funke, Rehan Panditaratne	Elec\Modems	Design and Implementation of the TNC/Modem Communication System
	2003	Darran Siu, Ching-Yi Chen	Elec\Radios	Testing and Integration of Radio System on Microsatellites
	2003	Nicholas Hannah	FC	System Software for BLUEsat
	2003	Rinaldi Darmagiri	T&E	Qualification Testing and Evaluation of BLUEsat
	2003	Scott Hansman	Mech\M.E.A.	In-orbit Thermal Analysis of BLUEsat
	2002	Arno Chen, Vincent Chu, Chou-Chun Fan, Henry Yip	Elec\Modems	BLUEsat Onboard Communication System - Terminal Node Controller (TNC)
	2002	David Tai Fook Lee	Elec\Radios	The Telemetry and DTMF subsystems of BLUEsat microsatellite
	2002	Dean Sabella	Payloads\GPS	Spaceborne GPS
	2002	Nicholas Stanford	Elec\Solar	Development of an Acquisition System to Collect Efficiency Data for the Solar Cell Experiment flown on BLUEsat
	2002	Peter Hsiao-Yuan Huang	Mech\Stabilisation	A New Approach to Microsatellite Stabilisation
	2001	Alex Ying Yuen Cheung, Pak Lun Yu, Michael Chin Kit Keung, Emily Feng	Elec\Radios	BLUEsat Onboard Communication System - Radio System
	2001	Daniel Faber	Elec\Solar	Solar Arrays for a Micro Satellite
	2001	Hiroaki Endo	Mech\Structure	Analysis of BLUEsat Structure
	2001	Peter Matthison	T&E	Testing and Evaluation of the BLUEsat Prototype Model
	2000	David, Kok Leong, Loh	Payloads\Imager	BLUEsat Experimental Payload - The Imager
	2000	Hui Gin Adrian Chia	FC	UNSW BLUEsat Project, Development of a Flight Computer System
	2000	James Robert Farley	Elec\Comms	UNSW BLUEsat Project, Groundstation Communications Capability Development
	2000	Keoudone Phetsaya	Elec\Radios	BLUEsat Onboard 435 MHz Transmitter
	2000	Robert William Doran	FC	Design of a Satellite Computer

	Author: Vaenthan Thiru © The Author, the BLUEsat project or UNSW. All rights reserved. Last Modified: July 14 2008 14:23:54.