Course Descriptions:
Offered at UTC Power - South Windsor, CT
CHEG 320 Fuel Cell Engineering
Dr. James Fenton 860-486-2490 E-mail: jmfent@engr.uconn.edu
This course introduces the student to all aspects of fuel cell system design, with special emphasis placed on proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The concepts of thermodynamics, electrochemical engineering, interfacial processes (kinetics), conduction processes and transport phenomena as they apply to fuel cell engineering will be presented. The laboratory component of the course includes research quality test stations for investigating fuel crossover, catalyst electrochemical surface area and fuel cell performance as a function of temperature, relative humidity, reactant concentration and reactant flow rate. Experiments will also be performed using reformate derived hydrogen as the fuel, with an emphasis on investigating the carbon monoxide tolerance of the fuel cell as a function of temperature and humidity. The rigorous theoretical background coupled with the hands on experience brings together the distinct concepts involved in fuel cell manufacture and operation.
Text: Fuel Cell Technology Handbook , by Gregor Hoogers, CRC Press, 2002. ISBN: 0849308771
CHEG 320 Advanced Heat Transfer
Dr. Yehia Khalil E-mail: Yehia.Khalil@Yale.edu
This graduate level course provides a comprehensive treatment of heat transfer processes with industrial applications. Topics include heat transfer modes and heat transfer in: stationary systems, laminar flows, and turbulent flows. The course scope also covers heat transfer with boiling (including onset of nucleate boiling, bubble growth, fully-developed sub-cooled boiling, and film boiling), void fraction and pressure drop in sub-cooled boiling, basic models of two-phase flow heat transfer, calculation of critical heat flux (CHF) in forced convective flows, basic processes of condensation, drop-wise condensation, film condensation, mechanisms of evaporation and condensation at a plane liquid-vapor interface, methods of improving the heat transfer coefficient in nucleate boiling and in condensation, heat exchangers, radiant heat transfer, and treatment of multi-component evaporation and condensation.
Text: Heat Transfer: A practical approach with EES CD, 2nd edition by Y. A. Cengel. McGraw-Hill 2002. ISBN # 0-07-282620-7
Offered at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford CT - Engineering Building
MMAT 307 Solidification of Metals and Alloys
Dr. Harold Brody 860-486-0853 E-mail: brody@engr.uconn.edu
Thermodynamic and kinetic principles of solidification. Control of structure and properties of solidification. Control of structure and properties in casting, joining and sintering.
Text: Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification by Doru Michael Stefanescu, Kluwer/Plenum, 2002.ISBN 0-306-46750-X
ME 320 Fundamentals & Applications of Heat and Mass Transfer
Dr. Theodore Bergman 860-486-2090
E-mail: tberg@engr.uconn.edu
This course provides an in-depth, master's level treatment of the subject of heat and mass transfer. Conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer modes will be reviewed and discussed. Convective mass transfer and multi-mode heat transfer will be covered in some detail. A special focus will be on the analytical treatment of the various heat transfer modes, but with application of the subject matter to topical problems of practical importance including but not limited to: thermal manufacturing, nano- and microscale phenomena, and fuel cells.
Text: Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer , Fifth Edition, F.P. Incropera and D.P. DeWitt, Wiley, 2002. ISBN 0-471-38650-2.
ME 372 Theory and Design of Automatic Control Systems
Dr. Nejat Olgac (860) 486-2382 E-mail: olgac@engr.uconn.edu
Design features of a closed loop control system. Laplace domain analysis of electromechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, thermal and mechanic systems. Computer simulation of dynamic responses using software tools. Stability issues, Routh anlaysis, root locus, Mode and Nyquist analyses are addressed.
Text: To be determined
ME 323 Convection Heat Transfer
Dr. Michael Renfro (860) 486-5934 E-mail: michael.renfro@uconn.edu
A study of heat transfer to laminar and turbulent boundary layers for both compressible and incompressible fluids. Free convection heat transfer is also investigated
Text: Convection Heat Transfer 2nd ed. By A. Bejan, Wiley,1995. ISBN:0-471-57972-6
ENGR 300-XX Project – Project is matched with faculty member specializing in that application
This course involves solution of engineering problems at an advanced graduate level using an investigative approach. Formulating a problem statement and a solution approach, conducting a literature survey, collecting and analyzing data, and preparing a final report are included in the course. The grade for the course will be given based upon the quality and novelty of the final report. The final report must include a unique computational, experimental and/or theoretical component that clearly demonstrates the students' ability to perform graduate-level engineering research, performed under the guidance of a faculty member. Students are expected to meet with their faculty advisors on a regular basis (approximately once per week). The student should expect to dedicate the same amount of time to ENGR 300 as they would dedicate to a regular 3 hour graduate course in engineering.
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