This is a two course sequence for Mechanical Engineering majors. The sequence includes ME321 - Introduction to Thermodynamics (offered Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer First Session) and ME328 - Applied Thermodynamcs (offered Spring and Summer Second Session)
Fall 07 Calendar
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Winter 08 Calendar
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Spring 08 Calendar (ME321)
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Summer
08 Calendar
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Textbook required for both ME321 and ME328: Potter & Somerton "Thermodynamics for Engineers" Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw-Hill, Second Edition, 2006. This soft covered Second Edition is very light and inexpensive, and covers all the material of both ME321 and ME328. It will be supplemented by various property tables and charts as required, as well as the web pages below.
Chapter 1: Concepts,
Definitions, and Basic Principles
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Chapter 2: Properties of Pure Substances
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Chapter 3: Work and
Heat
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Chapter 4: The First Law of ThermodynamicsThis is the major chapter in the ME321 course and we will thus spend a significant amount of time studying the First Law and its application to thermodynamic systems. All of Chapter 4 is required reading excepting for the last section on Transient Flow, which we will not be covering. |
Chapter 5: The Second
Law of Thermodynamics
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Chapter 6: EntropyWe present an Entropy Summary Sheet, Isentropic Processes Summary Sheet, and an Adiabatic Efficiency Summary Sheet of all the relevant equations relating to this Section.. |
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full capacity: 2,600,000kW ![]() |
Measurable course-level student
learning outcomes are defined for all
high-level outcomes such that demonstrating that students have
achieved the course outcomes provides supporting evidence that
students are achieving the high-level outcomes and are properly
prepared to achieve the department's educational objectives. The
following Outcomes (specific to the ME321 and ME328 courses) have
been extracted from the complete set of ME
Department Outcomes:
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[ABET-e] OU ME graduates will demonstrate
an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
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[ABET-a and ASME-1,2,&3] OU ME graduates
will demonstrate a familiarity with statistics and linear algebra,
a knowledge of chemistry and calculus-based physics (with depth
in physics), and an ability to apply their knowledge of advanced
mathematics (through multivariate calculus and differential equations),
science, and engineering.
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[ABET-h] OU ME graduates will have
the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering
solutions in a global and societal context.
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[ABET-j] OU ME graduates will demonstrate
a knowledge of contemporary issues.
Other Places where the global and contemporary
- contemporary issues outcome is addressed. |