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Browse a Website
One way to find a topic is to browse websites specific to your area of interest. Go to any of the websites below and look for articles and headlines on something that interests you. While most of these articles will not provide in depth information, they can be a great starting point, inspiring you to explore a topic or issue in more depth.
Stream Videos and Podcasts
Watch a documentary or video on a topic that interests you. As you watch, note names of people who are interviewed or discussed, places visited and issues explored. Doing this can help you take the next step in focusing your topic and exploring it in more depth.
Engineering Topics
- 3D design, printing, scanning
- adhesives
- aeroacoustics
- aeroelasticity
- aerothermodynamics
- air turbulence
- airbags
- alternative fuels
- analytical mechanics
- antibacterial products (toys, etc.)
- artificial intellegence
- asynchronous signal processing
- biometric signatures
- boundary layer
- bridge collapse
- CAD/CAM/CAE systems
- "carbon footprint"
- cell phones
- composite materials
- computer forensics
- computer modeling
- computer viruses
- computer voice recognition
- design optimization
- Earth-sheltered homes
- electric cars
- encryption
- ethanol
- ethics in engineering
- FEA, finite element analysis
- fiber optics
- flow: transonic, hypersonic & unsteady
- fluid dynamics
- flutter phenomena
- geoengineering
- GIS technology
- high horsepower cars
- holographs
- hybrid vehicles
- hydroforming
- Internet technologies
- ipods: beyond music
- LAN/WAN servers
- laser applications
- liquid crystal applications
- MEMS
- microchipsmicrowave engineering
- mobile computing
- MOOs
- nanomaterials
- nanotechnology
- nanotubes
- naturalistic decision making
- new tech gadgets
- night vision technology
- nonaotechnology
- nuclear plants generating electricity
- object-oriented technology
- offshore structures
- parallel computing
- particle accelerators
- plates
- Pollution Protection Act
- radar
- rapid prototyping
- refrigerants
- robotics
- satellites
- seismic design
- self-driving cars
- semiconductors
- "sick" buildings
- simulation
- situation awareness
- smart structures
- sonar
- space shuttles
- space stations
- speech recognition
- superconductors
- swamp draining
- synchronous transmission
- synthetic fuels
- telephone history
- tires
- transonic flow
- tunnels & bridges of Hampton Roads
- vortex-motion
- Walkie Talkie
- Wi Fi in public spaces
- wind sheer
- wind tunnels
- wireless communications
