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ME300 SUMMER PRACTICE I

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the students will

• have some experience with different discrete manufacturing processes used in industry,
• learn the importance of engineering drawing in manufacturing,
• be able to learn how to do coast analysis for simple parts,
• get acquainted with a typical organizational structure for a discrete manufacturing company.

Course Content

Students are required to do a minimum of four weeks (twenty working days) summer practice at the shop floor of a suitable factory. The students are expected to practice on manufacturing processes such as machining, foundry work, metal forming, welding, non-traditional machining, heat treatment, finishing, etc. A report is to be submitted to reflect the work carried out personally by the student.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Ability to qualitatively assess the quality of energy in various forms

2. Ability to make appropriate assumptions to develop exergy models of common energy conversion devices

3. Ability to calculate the exergy of a substance relative to a dead state

4. Ability to calculate the change in exergy for a substance undergoing a process

5. Ability to calculate the irreversibility of a process

6. Ability to calculate and use second law efficiencies

7. Qualitative understanding of how thermal energy is converted into mechanical energy using a power cycle and why this process is important to our society

8. Qualitative understanding of how mechanical energy is used to move thermal energy from a cold region to a hot region and why this process is important to our society

9. Ability to make appropriate assumptions to model common vapor and gas cycles

10. Ability to perform a cycle analysis for common vapor and gas cycles

11. Ability to apply knowledge of existing cycles to understand new cycles

12. Air-conditioning, chemical processes and combustion processes are important to our society

13. Ability to make appropriate assumptions to model the ideal gas mixtures

14. Ability to mathematically analyze models of ideal gas mixtures

15. Ability to apply the Clapeyron Equation to calculate thermodynamic properties

16. Ability to apply Maxwell Relations to calculate thermodynamic properties

17. Ability to calculate changes of enthalpy and entropy for non-ideal gases

18. Ability to qualitatively understand and quantitatively assess the societal and environmental implications of combustion reactions

19. Ability to make appropriate assumptions to model chemical reactions

20. Ability to quantitatively analyze chemical reactions

21. Ability to make appropriate assumptions to model equilibrium states

22. Ability to quantitatively analyze equilibrium states

23. Ability to use a computer for thermodynamic analysis

24. Ability to clearly document an engineering analysis made using a computer

25. Ability to solve a thermodynamic problem by systematically applying basic thermodynamic principles and property relations and keeping track of units

26. Ability to clearly document an engineering analysis for future reference and easy communication to others, including specifying units.

Program Outcomes Matrix