Course Syllabus
Course: ENGR 2300
Division: Natural Science and Math
Department: Computer Science & Engineering
Title: Engineering Thermodynamics
Semester Approved: Spring 2018
Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2023
End Semester: Spring 2024
Catalog Description: This course is an introduction to principles of thermodynamics, including reversible and irreversible processes, equations of state, First and Second Laws, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, exergy, the Carnot cycle, and gas power cycles.
Semesters Offered: TBA
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
Prerequisites: MATH 1220 or equivalent
Justification: This course is designed as a component of the standard pre-professional curriculum in engineering, which enables the student to transfer with junior-level status into a four-year engineering program. Similar courses are offered in university engineering schools. For instance, it is most similar to MAE 2300 at Utah State University, and CH EN 2300 at the University of Utah. This course is to be taken during the sophomore year of the pre-engineering curriculum and will prepare the student for subsequent course work.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to define vocabulary associated with thermodynamics such as system, state, state postulate, equilibrium, process cycle, etc. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will be able to demonstrate effective approaches to solving homework problems and presenting solutions. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the concept of energy, heat, and work and be able to apply the First Law of Thermodynamics to energy balance problems. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of a pure substance and the physics of phase change processes. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the compressibility factor which accounts for deviation of real gasses from ideal gas behavior. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will be able to apply the concept of efficiency to calculate actual work input or output. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will define reversible and irreversible processes and identify conditions of an irreversible process. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will be able to define the significance of entropy and entropy generation as well as calculate the change in entropy of a system and its surroundings. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Students will analyze and solve thermodynamic problems involving ideal gases, ideal gas mixtures, phase change fluids and incompressible substances. Students will be assessed through projects, homework assignments, and exams.
Content:
Students will learn the basic concepts, vocabulary and skills involved in thermodynamics including: *Principles of open and closed systems, properties, states, processes, cycles, pressure, phase changes, quality, saturation, etc *Zeroth, first, and second laws of thermodynamics*Equations of state Internal energy, enthalpy, and specific heats *Energy transfer by heat, work, and mass *Energy, entropy, and exergy balances of open and closed systems *Carnot principles, heat engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps *Various efficiencies including thermal and second law *Gas power cycles including the Otto cycle, the Diesel cycle, the Stirling cycle, the Ericsson Cycle, and the Brayton cycle *Use of intercooling, reheating, and regeneration *Jet propulsion cycles Design of a gas power cycle with economic and technical constraints *Second Law analysis of gas power cycles.
Key Performance Indicators:
Students will be assessed through
Homework 5 to 10%
Projects 5 to 10%
Exams 80 to 90%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Cengel, et.al., Thermodynamics an Engineering Approach, Current Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, or equivalent
Pedagogy Statement:
This course will be delivered through lecture, class discussion, and small group collaboration.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 15
Optimum Class Size: 10
