Paper on Financial Engineering

[SimonSaysHello]

Hello all,
I am an undergraduate computer engineering major and I have been assigned the task of doing a research paper on any topic in engineering. I am also a Finance minor with a personal interest in financial markets, so I would like to do my paper on something in the realm of Financial Engineering. I am familiar with some topics in quantitative analysis, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions about how I can directly connect engineering and finance. Maybe the hardware that is used by quant firms?

Thanks.

 

[Yike Lu]

I would probably try signal processing, or suggesting a hardware architecture. Not many places are going to tell you what they use. But to really say anything substantial, you need to dig deeper into the issues... massive data requirements, need for speed, etc.