Course Description This course introduces Mechanical Engineering students to laboratory applications in the fundamental fields of mechanical engineering such as thermal, mechanical, dynamics, control, and fluids.
Course Grading System Quizzes: 20 % Reports: 80 % * Students who fail to meet the 85% attendance requirement in the course fail with an NA grade; they are not entitled to take the final exam.
Topics covered and Schedule: Week Topic 1 Introduction, general overview of syllabus, group formation 2 Data acquisition, analysis, and presenting techniques, statistical methods in engineering experimentation, error analysis, curve fitting, regression, uncertainty Q1 3 Occupational Health and Safety Q2 4 Measurement Laboratory Report 1 5 Mechanical Vibrations Experimentation-1 Report 2 6 Mechanical Vibrations Experimentation-2 Report 3 7 Thermal Systems experimentation (Thermodynamics Part 1) Report 4 8 Thermal Systems experimentation (Thermodynamics Part 2) Report 5 9 Thermal Systems experimentation (Heat Transfer) Report 6 10 Fluid Systems Experimentation Part 1 Report 7 11 Fluid Systems Experimentation Part 2 Report 8 12 Manufacturing Systems Experimentation (Part 1) Report 9 13 Manufacturing Systems Experimentation (Part 2) Report 10 14 Mechanical Characterization of Materials Report 11 Review Final Report, 9:30 - 12:30
Laboratories Facilities Mechanical Systems Laboratory Thermal Systems Laboratory Fluidic Systems Laboratory Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory Computer Aided Design (CAD) Laboratory