Aims to enrich students' appreciation of technology and the application of simple science and engineering concepts in the design and operation of these devices, and to provide students with an early positive engineering experience and interaction with College of Engineering faculty. Introduction to careers in engineering and computer science. Faculty and invited participants survey the various disciplines. Students keep a journal summarizing the weekly activities. A term paper is required.
Enrollment is limited.
Work and energy, first and second laws of thermodynamics, reversible processes, Carnot cycle, entropy change, heat engines and refrigerators, properties of pure substances, relationships between thermodynamic properties. Introductory Fluid Mechanics. Principles and applications of fluid mechanics. Fluid statics, conservation of momentum and energy, dynamics of incompressible and compressible flow in conduits, flow past immersed bodies, transportation and metering fluids, agitation and mixing. The analysis of steady and transient heat conduction, forced and natural convection, radiation heat transfer.