Engineering 290 - ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS

Modern civilization relies profoundly on efficient production, management, and consumption of energy. Thermodynamics is the science of energy transformations involving work, heat, and the properties of matter. Engineers rely on thermodynamics to assess the feasibility of their designs in a wide variety of fields including chemical processing, pollution control and abatement, power generation, materials science, engine design, construction, refrigeration, and microchip processing. Course topics include: first and second laws of thermodynamics, power cycles, combustion and refrigeration, phase equilibria, ideal and non-ideal mixtures, conductive, convective, and radiative heat transfer. Prerequisites (or co-requisites): EGR 110 (formerly 260) and PHY 210 (or the equivalents) or permission of the instructor.