Aircraft Engineering (BSc) Final Year Dissertation
 

Good Evening All,

I am currently a 3rd and final year student studying a BSc Honours Degree in Aircraft Engineering.
Soon, I will be deciding officially on my final year project for my dissertation and would like to get some views and opinions off anyone who thinks aviation/engineering can be improved in anyway possible :)

I already have the idea of re-designing an aircraft wing exactly how they have designed the TRENT 1000 engine exhaust nozzle (corrugated nozzle).
This idea would incorporate the corrugated design at the trailing edge of the wing to help smoothen airflow further, reduce severity of vortices and hopefully improve fuel efficiency,

If anyone has any further ideas or can elaborate on my project idea then please help me out if you can! :D Thank you!

I spend my life worrying about what can be improved about aviation, and such projects are bread and butter.

However, you state that you're doing an Aircraft Engineering BSc - those are usually academic backstops to maintenance courses, and usually have fairly minimal design / structures / aerodynamic content. If you were doing an Aerospace Engineering BEng then a design project like this would make a lot of sense, I'm less convinced on the course you're describing.

My other main comment would be about overstretch - designing a wing is a huge task, and far beyond any undergraduate dissertation project. *If* you tackle this, I think you need to refine it down to a particular narrow area - for example modelling it aerodynamically and estimating the performance impact, or modifying an airfix model and putting the "before" and "after in a wind tunnel to try and show the major effects. If you are of a structures bent, perhaps looking at the structural implications compared to the norm of a straight trailing edge?

But, I would check what your degree is really about? If it's a maintenance or technology degree, you perhaps need to re-align your ambitions towards what you've already studied.

G