Freshman Engineering Clinic (4 hrs)
• 2 Semesters (1 year)
• 1 lecture (1 hr) & 1 lab each week (3 hr)
• All Engineering Disciplines
• Fall Semester: Measurements
• Spring Semester: Reverse Engineering
• In both semesters: Communications,
Safety, Statistics
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Freshman Engineering Clinic:
Chemical Engineering
• Measurements (Fall)
– Polymer coating
– Drug delivery
– Food Product Coating
– Power Generation: Cogen plant
– Biomedical
• Reverse Engineering (Spring)
– Coffee maker experiments
– Brewing process
– Breadmaker
– Hands on the Human Body!
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Fluidized Bed Polymer Coating
• Introduce Basic
Chemical Engineering
Concepts
• Illustrate a Well Used
Unit Operation:
Fluidization
• Polymers / coatings
• Heat transfer
Coating Thickness (in)
Objects
Coated
0.04
y = 4.18E-03x + 3.46E-05
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y = 3.55E-03x - 1.02E-03
121°C
149°C
177°C
0.02
Linear (149°C)
y = 2.33E-03x + 3.05E-04
0.01
Linear (121°C)
Linear (177°C)
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Dipping Time (s)
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Spring Semester
Reverse Engineering:
Automatic Drip Coffee Maker
• One Semester Project
• Familiar Appliance
• Demonstrates Chemical Engineering
Principles.
• Design of Products & Processes
• Inexpensive
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8 Unit Operations
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Size Reduction
Tank Efflux
Heaters
Vapor Condenser
Liquid Distributor
Leaching
Filtration
Flow Through
Valves and Pipes
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Simple Coffee Experiments
What Liquid Water
Why
Do You Grind
Temperature
CoffeeGreat
Beans?
Makes
Coffee?
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y = 0.0003x 3 - 0.021x 2 + 0.5606x + 0.2959
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Concentration (g/L)
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150
Concentration (g/L)
Coffee Concentration
(g/mL)
How Strong is the First Cup?
300
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Da ta
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600
750
900
Re gression
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of Liquid Passed
Through Filter (mL)
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Grinding
Time (s)
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40
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80
Temperature (°C)
100
120
= 150 mL
Reverse
Engineering
or
How Does It
Work?
Sophomore Engineering Clinic
• Combines communications
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with engineering
Communication skills
–Writing
–Public speaking
3 hr communications & one
3 hour engineering lab each
week
2 semesters
Sophomore Engineering Clinic
Multidisciplinary Design Examples
–Rocket Launcher
–Baseball Stadium
–Recycling
–Human Powered Stair
Climber for the Disabled
–Bridge Design
–Microbial Fuel Cell