Course Request Summary
Department Submitting Request: Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
Request for Action: CHANGE Effective: 200410
Course Subject Area: Engineering Mechanical
Subject Code: EME Course Number: 165
Descriptive Title: Heat Transfer
Abbreviated Title: Heat Transfer
Units: 4
Learning Activity
1st LEC 3.0 hrs/wk
2nd LAB 3.0 hrs/wk
In Progress Grading: None
Consent of Instructor: No
Prerequisite(s): course 5 or ENG 6, 103 and 105
Restrictions on Enrollment: Restricted to Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical
Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering/Materials Science Engineering, and
Biological Systems Engineering majors.
Course Description: Conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer. Computational
modeling of heat transfer in engineering. Applications to engineering equipment with the
use of digital computers.
General Education: No GE Certification
Topical Breadth:
Diversity:
Writing Experience:
Cross Listing: Same Course as
Justification:
Repeat Credit:
Credit Limitations:
Mode of Grading: Letter
Quarters to be Offered: I,II,III Each Year
Instructors Name(s): Baughn Title(s): Professor
Remarks:
Adding 1 hour to aerospace radiant heat transfer topic and changes to Restrictions on
Enrollment. Change in prerequisites to include EME 5 and deletion of ENG 5.
Expanded Course Description
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The Transfer of Energy
A. Introduction to science of heat transfer and description of three modes,
conduction, convection and radiation.
B. Thermal properties
II. General Conduction Equation
A. Derivation
B. Effect of heat source
III. One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Steady-State Conduction
IV. Transient Heat Conduction
A. Lumped parameter system
B. Transient temperature charts
V. Laminar Flow Convective Heat Transfer
A. Basic concepts using flat plate flow
B. Local heat transfer coefficient
C. Average heat transfer coefficient
D. Nusselt number
E. Heat transfer in tubes
VI. Turbulent Flow Convective Heat Transfer
A. Similarity relations
B. Reynolds analogy
C. Flow in tubes
D. Flow along a flat plate
E. Turbulent flow theory
F. Flow across tubes
VII. Thermal Radiation
A. Black body radiation - Planck Equation
B. Stefan-Boltzmann Equation
C. Radiation properties of surface
VIII. Radiation Heat Transfer
A. Geometrical factors
B. Non-black surfaces
C. Applications of heat transfer in aerospace engineering including thermo
protection systems
IX. Introduction to Heat Exchangers
A. Overall heat transfer coefficient
B. Logarithmic-mean temperature difference
C. Parallel and counter-flow heat exchangers
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READING:
Incorpera & DeWitt, Intro to Heat Transfer, 3r ed., Wiley
GRADING PERCENTAGES:
Letter grade. Grade based on mid-term (35%), final,(40%) computer design
projects (10%) and homework (15%).
6. COURSE FORMAT AND REQUIREMENTS:
7. This course meets for 10 weeks, 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab per week.
8. EXPLANATION OF POTENTIAL COURSE OVERLAP:
9. This course has some overlap with ECH 152B and EBS 125; however
applications are specific to stated majors.
10. GENERAL EDUCATION JUSTIFICATION:
11. None
12. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS:
13. Estimated Abet Category Content:
14. Engineering Science: 2 Units
15. Engineering Design: 2 Units Design statement:
16. The design segments of the course involve parametric studies on the influence of
geometry, time and Peclet number in heat transfer problems. Emphasis placed on
the use of computer graphics as an aid in visualization of the parametric effects.
Design problems involve conduction, convection and radiation.
Old Information
COURSE GOALS:
This course is to provide an introduction to conduction convection and radiation heat
transfer.
ENTRY LEVEL:
Upper Division Standing
Page 66 Spring
2008
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Title Units Instructor Day Time Location
Building Room
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Exam
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44691 ^ EME 165 COM 001 Heat Transfer 4.0 The Staff TuesdayThursday 0410-0530P CHEM 176 65 Y
TuesdayThursday 0540-0600P CHEM 176
TBA TBA
** OPEN TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL-AERONAUTICAL
ENGINEERING, AERONAUTICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL/
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING MAJORS **
Quarter Dates and Deadlines
Financial Aid funds available through direct deposit. . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 27
Quarter Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 27
Placement Tests and Auditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 27–29
Instruction Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 31
10th day of instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 11