UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
SYLLABUS FOR FALL OF 2003
ETME 3303 Applied Thermal Sciences
Catalog Description: Prerequisite: Physics 1321 and Mechanical Engineering Technology 2320. Basic thermal
properties and heat transfer modes. Theory, operation, and selection of thermal industrial equipment including engines,
turbines, boilers, furnaces, and heat exchangers. Two hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory per week. Three credit
hours.
Course Objective:
To introduce the students to the concepts of Thermodynamic systems, heat and work, the conservation of mass and
energy, entropy; use them effectively in the practice of engineering by extending the study of the laws and concepts of
thermodynamics with emphasis on applications to power and refrigeration cycles.
Class Meets:
Lecture: M W 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm in ETAS 231 every week.
Labs to be arranged (will meet in ETAS 129)
Instructor:
Dr. Srikanth B. Pidugu
Office: ETAS 227D
Office Phone: 371-7620; E-mail: sbpidugu@ualr.edu
Office Hours:
MW 0330-0400 pm and by appointment.
Textbook:
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, New Media Version,4/e (comes with property tables)
Authors: Yunus A. Cengel and Michael A. Boles
ISBN 007-2559381; McGraw-Hill
Grading:
20% Announced 10 to 15 minute Cumulative Short Quizzes
15% Homework
15% Lab (includes reports and an exam)
30% Two Two-Hour Cumulative Midterm (15% + 15%)
20% Two-Hour Cumulative Final
Course Rules:
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You may use a scientific or regular calculator on any quiz or exam.
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You may not use a PC, Laptop, PDA, Palmtop, or any equivalent due to wireless web technology issues, on any
exam or quiz.
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Students may freely collaborate on lab reports. However, each student is to submit a unique (i. e., not photocopied
or computer printed from the same file) report and will be graded individually.
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Students may not use a cell phone, pager, walky-talky, or any other communications device during a class, lab,
exam or quiz.
Grade Scale:
100-90 %
A
89-80 %
B
79-73 %
C
72-65 %
D
65-0 %
F
Missed Work Policy: In keeping with UALR’s mission to serve non-traditional students, late work will be accepted
without penalty if the student has a reasonable excuse. Otherwise late work is assessed a penalty of 25% per day
late—of course not counting days that the university is not open for business. Instructor’s decision is final. The
midterm and quizzes may be taken late or early if the student has a reasonable excuse. The final exam may be taken
late or early with the consent of the Department Chair as per UALR’s regulations if the student has such a reasonable
excuse.
Due to the sharing of facilities and equipment by several classes make-up lab sessions may not be possible.
In that situation the student will write his or her report from another student’s data and will not suffer a grade penalty if
the student missed the lab session due to a reasonable excuse.
Attendance Policy:
Attendance at all lectures, labs, and exams are mandatory and are part of the student’s grade. Students will be held
responsible for all material covered in and announcements made in lectures. If you must miss a class, you will
need to get the lecture notes from another student in the class (good idea to look into more than one student’s notes).
Diversity Policy:
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The classroom is to be a safe place for all and students are asked to be respectful of diversity in their
demeanor. As some students may be minors, all students are asked to respect a "Family" atmosphere.
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DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES: It is the policy of UALR to accommodate students with disabilities,
pursuant to federal law and state law. Any student with a disability who needs accommodation, for example
in arrangements for seating, examinations, note-taking, or access to information on the web should inform the
instructor at the beginning of the course. The chair of the department offering this course is also available to
assist with accommodations. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact Disability Support Services,
which is located in the Donaghey Student Center, Room 103, telephone 501-569-3143 (v/tty), and on the web
at www.ualr.edu/dssdept.
Assignment Formats:
a.
Homework should be on ordinary paper, one side only. Please write your name clearly on each
assignment.
b.
Lab reports may be typed or printed by hand on one side 8.5” x 11” paper, stapled, and handed in flat.
No cover or binding is needed. A lab report will in general consist of the following parts:
1.
Cover page – with date turned in, your name and name of lab partners (if any), experiment
number.
2.
Main goal(s) of the experiment (not exceeding a half page)
3.
Results – presentation of any data, programs, calculations, analysis, designs, and so forth you
obtained in the lab.
4.
Conclusions – clearly mention what you observed (no analysis in this section).
5.
Answers to the specific questions in the lab handout.
c.
Exam answers should be well explained, readable, and should answer the question asked completely.
Space will be provided on the exam forms for your work and extra paper will be available. Please alert
the grader if you needed to write on the back of your test sheets so that all your points will be credited.
Please be careful to read the questions thoroughly, to use all information provided, and to answer the
precise question that was asked.
IMPORTANT:
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Only UALR e-mail service will be used. Every student registered to a course at UALR will be automatically
assigned an e-mail ID.
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COURSE HOME PAGE LINK: http://www.ualr.edu/~sbpidugu/etme3303/etme3303.html
Course home page will be used for announcements, posting homework solutions, help material etc. It is
mandatory for students to visit course page and check e-mails at least once in a day though all information
such quiz dates, home work due dates etc. will be announced in class.
Course Outline
Chapter One: Basic Concepts of Thermodynamics
1-1 Thermodynamics and Energy
1-3 Closed and Open Systems
1-4 Properties of a System
1-5 State and Equilibrium
1-6 Processes and Cycles
1-7 Forms of Energy
1-8 Energy and Environment
1-9 Temperature and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
1-10 Pressure (Read)
1-11 The Manometer (Read)
1-12 Barometer and the Atmospheric Pressure (Read)
Chapter Two: Properties of Pure Substances
2-1 Pure Substance
2-2 Phases of a Pure Substance
2-3 Phase-Change Processes of Pure Substances
2-4 Property Diagrams for Phase-Change Processes
2-5 Property Tables
2-6 The Ideal-Gas Equation of State
2-7 Compressibility Factor
2-8 Other Equations of State (Read)
2-9 Specific Heats
2-10 Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and Specific Heats Of Ideal Gases
2-11 Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and Specific Heats Of Solids and Liquids
Chapter Three: Energy Transfer by Heat, Work, and Mass
3-1 Heat Transfer
3-2 Energy Transfer by Work
3-3 Mechanical Forms of Work
3-4 Non-mechanical Forms of Work
3-5 Conservation of Mass Principle
3-6 Flow Work and the Energy of a Flowing Fluid
Chapter Four: The First Law of Thermodynamics
4-1 The First Law of Thermodynamics
4-2 Energy Balance for Closed Systems
4-3 Energy Balance for Steady-Flow Systems
4-4 Some Steady-Flow Engineering Devices
4-5 Energy Balance for Unsteady-Flow Processes
Chapter Five: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
5-1 Introduction to the Second Law
5-2 Thermal Energy Reservoirs
5-3 Heat Engines
5-4 Energy Conversion Efficiencies
5-5 Refrigerators and Heat Pumps
5-6 Perpetual-Motion Machines
5-7 Reversible and Irreversible Processes
5-8 The Carnot Cycle
5-9 The Carnot Principles
5-10 The Thermodynamic Temperature Scale (Not included)
5-11 The Carnot Heat Engine
5-12 The Carnot Refrigerator and Heat Pump
Chapter Six: Entropy (will be taught by active learning methods)
6-1 Entropy
6-2 The Increase of Entropy Principle
6-3 Entropy Change of Pure Substances
6-4 Isentropic Processes
6-5 Property Diagrams Involving Entropy
6-6 What is Entropy?
6-7 The T ds Relations
6-8 Entropy Change of Liquids and Solids
6-9 The Entropy Change of Ideal Gases
6-10 Reversible Steady-Flow Work (discuss equation)
6-11 Minimizing the Compressor Work
6-12 Isentropic Efficiencies of Steady-Flow Devices
Selected Topics from
Chapter Eight: Gas Power Cycles
Chapter Nine: Vapor and Combines Power Cycles
Chapter Ten: Refrigeration Cycles
Class Schedule -- Subject to revision and changes announced in class.