ME328 - Spring 2009 Calendar (updated - 5/21/09)

Blackboard	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
March               April	30 Chapter 6: Review of Entropy a) Defining and Evaluating Entropy Thermodynamic Properties Tables and Charts	31 Entropy Summary Sheet Isentropic Processes Summary Sheet Adiabatic Efficiency Summary Sheet	1	2 Chapter 6b) Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines	3 quiz 1
	6 Chapter 7: Exergy - Maximum Available Work Potential a) Reversible Work, Irreversibility, Second Law Efficiency	7	8	9 Chapter 7b) Examples of Adiabatic Control Volumes	10
	13 Chapter 7c) Heat Transfer from a Thermal Source	14 - WP/WF	15	16 Review of Gas Power Cycles Chapter 3b) The Ideal Stirling Cycle Engine	17 quiz 2
	20 Chapter 3c) The Air Standard Diesel Cycle Engine Chapter 3d) The Air Standard Otto Cycle Engine	21 Chapter 8: Steam Power Cycles a) Ideal Rankine and Reheat Cycles	22	23	24 quiz 3
	27 Chapter 8b) Regenerative Cycles - Open and Closed Feedwater Heaters	28	29	30 Case Study - The General James M. Gavin Steam Power Plant	1 take-home quiz1
May	4 Take-home-quiz 1 due in class Chapter 9: Carbon Dioxide (R744) The New Refrigerant	5	6	7 Guest Lecture: David Bayless	8 quiz 4
	11 Chapter 10: Air - Water Vapor Mixtures a) Humidity and the Adiabatic Saturation Process	12 Chapter 10b) The Psychrometric Chart and Air Conditioning Processes	13	14	15 quiz 5
	18 Chapter 10c) Cooling Towers for Steam Power Plants	19	20	21	22 makeup quiz take-home quiz 2
	25 Memorial Day (no classes)	26 Take-home-quiz 2 due in class Chapter 11: Combustion Combustion Molar Enthalpy Tables	27	28	29 quiz 6
June	1 begin review	2	3	4	5 Last Class
	8 Final Exam 12:20 - 2:20	9	10	11	12

* Note: this Calendar (by: izzi) is updated periodically