MEE 452 Fall 2011: Homework (HW) & Project Assignments:
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Syllabus/Topics/ABET Coverage Sample *Office Hours and Info; Class/HW/Lab/Exam Policies/Rules *Let's get acquainted: First Things First!*[PDF] *emails* Read 1st * Some Suggestions for Problem Solving * Project Instructions * Lab Safety Rules* Handouts Etc.*Energy&Environment*CFD-Intro* email * Simulations
Class schedule: MEE 452: TuTh 1-1:50 PM in EB 209
Contents-Objectives*Cengel-352online/Errata/Course Outline / Reading Assignments - (Tentative) * Energy conversion factors and equivalents * Metric prefixes-conversion * A free electronic HEAT TRANSFER TEXTBOOK* A lost coursel
MEE 352 Approved Handouts:
Please PRINT and bring the Approved Handouts (with your name and bounded in a single volume: all stapled together or in a single 3-ring folder): Chapter Summaries (or copy from your Textbook), Unit Conversions and Constants, and Appendix 1 (or copy from your Textbook): SI Property Tables and Charts, if we need those for our Midterm Exam. TA will print the Approved Handouts and make it available for those students who want to copy them instead of printing. NOTE: If any font in a PDF file does not print properly, choose “Print as Image” option in the File>Print menu. If the font prints properly it is better to print without this option. You may want to choose other options suitable for your printer (like "Shrink oversized pages to paper size," etc.). It is your responsibility to check the printing and add/correct any misprint if needed. * Online Textbook Errata.* Online Textbook 4th Ed. Errata
Answer Forms: Quiz/Midterm/Final Exam; Multiple Choice; HW
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NOTE about HW rules/policy: Every electronic correspondence (email etc.) must have subject line with the course number and semester-year-and-your-initial abbreviation (without spacing) and a relevant heading in it (key words are fine, e.g., 390sp11mk lab safety, for MEE390 Spring 2011 and Milivoje Kostic (initials), related to lab safety, for example). Your email must finish with your full name "signature," since many of you use an alias for your email address. Otherwise your email may be discarded and/or you may get an "Auto-Reply: Sorry that your email could not be processed due to one or more of the following: (1) the class keyword is missing or improper (should be without spaces, etc) in the Subject line, and/or (2) no sender's name at the massage-end, and/or (3) no copy to TA, as per our class rules stated during the lectures and posted on the Web."
The User Name and Password, for copyrighted and other protected materials to be used for this class ONLY, are given in class. You may share it with your classmates ONLY.
NOTE: If a PDF file you try to access appears blank, use <BACK then FORWARD> browser keys to display it, or copy PDF file and then display it!
Sp10 NOTE: 
Errata-Word (79.0K) ; 
Errata-PDF (195.0K) Appendix 1 (206.0K); Appendix 2 (135.0K)
There may be verbal HW assignments given in class. Check with your classmates if you missed the class.
There may be a short Quiz related to any Reading Assignment comprehension and related lecture.
You may need USERname and PASSWORD given in class to access some documents and HW solutions (check with your classmate, TA or Instructor)
You are required to review the posted HW Solutions and you could (if you wish) redo any partial or full HW assignments for half of the credit within a week after the deadline (or after a HW solution is posted), if you emailed a valid excuse before the original deadline or reasonably soon after an unexpected absence (you should attach the emailed excuse with the redone HW).
MEE 452fa11 TA: Sandeep Hari < z1629899@students.niu.edu >; 452fa11 TA Office hours: We 10-11AM and Fr 11-12 noon, and by appointment. EB231
Pipe Flow * A free electronic HEAT TRANSFER TEXTBOOK * Blackboard
NOTE: The Quiz/Midterm solutions are "temporary stored" and will be re-posted after we discuss and finalize all grades.
FINAL EXAM for MEE 452fa11 on Thurs. December 8, 10-11:50 a.m.
You are allowed to further update and re-submit the "Post-presentation UPDATED Final Report" before our last class meeting.
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Homework Week/No. 15: Assigned in week of Tu, 11-29-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
Last week of Lectures - This is a review week before our Final Exam.
(Due on Th 12-01-11 our last lecture class): Review all grades recorded by TA before the last lecture. Copy/back-up all Web postings (including HW solutions) on your local drive in case of Web-server/network problems. Review everything and ALL your questions will be answered during our last Lecture meeting.
This is a review week before our final exam. Mandatory and comprehensive final exam, as per our Syllabus and per official NIU schedule is on Thurs. December 8, 10-11:50 a.m. (check Official NIU Exam Schedule and report any discrepancy personally to me).
You have to have your ID proof during the exam.
IMPORTANT Final Exam NOTE: If you have more than two Final Exams on the same date you have a right to reschedule the most senior-class exam (the highest-numbered course). Please email to me the exact schedule of ALL your exams (courses and dates/times) and then come in person to my Office to reschedule an Exam before our last class meeting. NOTE: It is my policy (due to confidentiality of grading) not to discus grading issues over phone or email (I will not answer any exam-grading message/email during the grading period). IF NEEDED OR PER YOUR REQUEST, REVIEW OF YOUR FINAL EXAM AND GRADE (may be re-graded for better or worse!) ONLY BY APPOINTMENT AND DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF LECTURES THE FOLLOWING SEMESTER.
Review Midterm/Exam Policies (Show all your work for full credit). Staple together in this order from top to bottom: Quiz/Midterm/Final Exam answer form, 8-sheet-blank-paper-set (exactly and must be submitted even if blank) and Multiple Choice answer form, and bring it with your personal Textbook, printed/copied Approved Handouts (bounded with your name: stapled or in a single 3-ring folder), pen, pencil and a calculator, etc. Write on the front face of the Worksheets only and end each page to be graded with "See Next" and "The End" for last page used.
As I advised all of you verbally before, you may check your grading record with TA and any concern has to be resolved before the classes are completed. All students and TA should check that all relevant links needed for Final exam are working before our last class/lecture. Students should copy and/or print all relevant information in case Web is not working during the final week exam period. Check if your name is properly spelled or missing in our Class Picture and email to me if any correction is to be done. Last lectures are reserved for review of all course materials and answering your questions related to our Final exam.
Homework Week/No. 14: Assigned in week of Tu, 11-22-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
NOTE: Next week is our preparation for Final Exam scheduled for Thurs. December 8, 10-11:50 a.m..
You are allowed to further update and re-submit the post-presentation UPDATED Final Report before our last class meeting
Reminder >(HW#13pVP due Tu 11-22-2011): The VERY-Final, i.e., UPDATED Final Project Report (with all updates and corrections to be filed for ABET) and Power-Point Presentation (PPT) should be both emailed (with Subject: MEE 452fa11 UPDATED Final Project Report and PPT) and then printed and submitted in class on Tu 11-22-2011. The class presentations will start immediately after Report and PPT collections in class on Tu 11-22-2011 at 9:30 am in order of Defense Appointments (above), so be prepared. If any student is absent or not ready, the following student in order should present, thus all students should be prepared and ready for the presentation (Do not jeopardize due credit by being late)
(HW#14a due Tu 11-29-11):
Email (Subject: 452fa11 MathCAD files) all MathCAD files of all Homeworks that have required use of MathCAD. Name and label all files using class keyword and relevant HW#s and Example/Problem #s (e.g., "452fa11 HW2b Problem 1-15 MathCAD file" etc.). The file could be compatible (to be opened) with MathCAD 15 version. At the top line of each file state if you have successfully solved Example/Problem and obtained the same results as in the Textbook, or give explanation if otherwise.
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Homework Week/No. 13: Assigned in week of Tu, 11-15-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
REMINDER: As already stated, you have to email the Project report (in Word and PDF file format) and then submit the printed version in class (Tu 15-2011) to be graded (Do not jeopardize due credit by being late). You have to bring all supporting documentation for next class (Tu 11-15-2011), i.e., relevant references, calculation files, etc., since we will start individual meetings to review and grade your project, right after the projects' collection and scheduling all individual appointments (to finish all grading on Tuesday and Wednesday), thus you have to be ready for your project defense and grading for our class on Tu, 11-15-2011. We will assign the project-mates, to professionally review (in writing) each-other's project, including final project improvements by Tu, 11-22-2011 when project presentation will begin in class.
(HW#13pDA due Th 11-17-2011): Final Project Report Defense Appointments this week: Eric (Tu 9:50 am); Path (Th 8:30 am); Aaron M. (Th 9:30 am); Aaron A. & Adam to make appointment for Tu or Th this week (I am not available on We). The final project report with comments/annotations by Instructor (during the Defense) will be given to the student for further self-review and updates, and to be returned back to Instructor together with the VERY-final project on Tu 11-22-2011 class. The Project Report should include, among others, the specific project-objectives, system-design diagram with all relevant labeling of components and sizes/capacities, including system-control and cost analysis. You do not have to use Hardy-Cross method but if you do the sewage could be presented as a large reservoir with atmospheric pressure, and the loops closed as in the relevant examples in the Textbook.
NOTE: Except for main data and data used in your calculations, other relevant data and auxiliary materials should be given in Appendices. Parts of references' data relevant for your main system components, like solar collector, pump, heat exchanger, etc., has to be included in the report as the corresponding Appendices.
(HW#13pRR due Th 11-17-2011): Project-mates: Eric-Aaron M.; Path-Adam or Aaron A. (whoever submits earlier). Instructor will email submitted final projects to project-mates to REVIEW the emailed final report in writing (as a separate report and annotations on the emailed report: In addition to annotation/comments, a written formal Review Report with constructive criticism/recommendation is required.) within 48 hours of receipt of the email, unless otherwise agreed mutually by the both project-mates in writing by email (the Review to be emailed to the project-mate and copy to instructor).
(HW#13pVP due Tu 11-22-2011): The VERY-Final, i.e., UPDATED Final Project Report (with all updates and corrections to be filed for ABET) and Power-Point Presentation (PPT) should be both emailed (with Subject: MEE 452fa11 UPDATED Final Project Report and PPT) and then printed and submitted in class on Tu 11-22-2011. The class presentations will start immediately after Report and PPT collections in class on Tu 11-22-2011 at 9:30 am in order of Defense Appointments (above), so be prepared. If any student is absent or not ready, the following student in order should present, thus all students should be prepared and ready for the presentation (Do not jeopardize due credit by being late).
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Homework Week/No. 12: Assigned in week of Tu, 11-08-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
NOTE 1: No lecture on Th 11/10/2011 Also: if absent from class or missing any Homework, an excuse email with reasons why is required in advance.
(Reminder: HW#11a due Th 11-03-2011): Email the first Progress Report (HW#7a with "specific objectives/users' requirements" by Th 11-03-2011
NOTE 2: As already stated, you have to email the Project report (in Word and PDF file format) and submit the printed version in class (Tu 15-2011) to be graded. You have to bring all supporting documentation for next class (Tu 11-15-2011), i.e., relevant references, calculation files, etc., since we will start individual meetings to review and grade your project, right after the projects' collection and scheduling all individual appointments (to finish all grading on Tuesday and Wednesday), thus you have to be ready for your project defense and grading for our class on Tu, 11-15-2011. We will assign the project-mates, to professionally review (in writing) each-other's project, including final project improvements by Tu, 11-22-2011 when project presentation will begin in class.
(HW#12p due Tu 11-15-2011): Final Project Report is due next class (Tuesday 11-15-2011 in-class). You have to email the Project report in Word and PDF file format and submit printed version in class to be graded. Work on and finalize your individual design project and write the Report according to the ASME, our professional society's format . If needed discuss your project final concerns with me. NOTE: As already discussed, most of the Project grade will be based on the Final Project Report submitted on Tuesday 11-15-2011 in class! See NOTE 2 above.
See also: Instructions/Guidelines for project report writing and presentation
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Homework Week/No. 11: Assigned in week of Tu, 11-01-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
NOTE: If absent from class or missing any Homework, an excuse email with reasons why is required in advance.
(HW#11a due Th 11-03-2011): Email the first Progress Report (HW#7a with "specific objectives/users' requirements" by Th 11-03-2011
(HW#11b due Tu 11-08-2011): Study Design Economy, Optimization, Reliability and Safety from given course references and other recourses (wiki/Time_value_of_money; wiki/The_Blue_Economy:_Design_Theory) as discussed in class, and lecture notes/handout (see PPT Lecture notes). Incorporate this topic in your Project as discussed in class.
(HW#11p due Tu 11-08-2011): Weekly Project progress report is due every Tuesday's class until the final submission. There should be a specific new work done every week and should be documented in writing and submitted as Weekly Project PROGRESS Report. Work on and finalize your individual design project. If needed discuss your project final concerns with me. NOTE: The final report is due in two weeks!
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Homework Week/No. 10: Assigned in week of Tu, 10-25-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#10a due Tu 11-01-2011): Weekly Project progress report is due every Tuesday's class until the final submission. There should be a specific new work done every week and should be documented in writing and submitted as Weekly Project PROGRESS Report. Detailed schematics of the system (including all components) and sizing of the components are expected to be finished by next class meeting.
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Homework Week/No. 9: Assigned in week of Tu, 10-18-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#9a due Tu 10-25-2011): Weekly Project progress report is due every Tuesday's class until the final submission. There should be a specific new work done every week and should be documented in writing and submitted as Weekly Project PROGRESS Report.
(HW#9b due Tu 10-25-2011): Study Chapter 5 (System Simulation), p. 339-367 (see PPT Lecture notes, and PDF format for printing) and redo Example 5-4 using the MathCAD, and afterwards try to simulate different outcomes by changing the input values. For example, is it possible to obtain a recirculation flow through the valve (by closing it for example, i.e changing the K-value), and if so for what value of K (this is an additional part of your HW)?
(HW#9Verbal due Tu 10-25-2011): Using the LSM calculate a & b coefficients for the curve-fit through given data set {xi, yi}, i=1,2, ..N with functions yc,i=a and yc,i=bxi, respectively.
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Homework Week/No. 8: Assigned in week of Tu, 10-11-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
NOTE: If you are not doing well in the course (check your credit so far with Instructor and TA) and do not intend studying much harder and smarter to improve, you may consider withdrawing from the course before the NIU official deadline (check on relevant Web or Office) to avoid permanent failing report in your transcript.
See also: Tips for Learning and Academic Skills Improvement * MOTIVATION and Success and Teaching & Learning PHILOSOPHY
(HW#8 "After Appointment Feedback" due Tu 10-18-2011): Email your feedback to Instructor after reviewing your tests with Instructor, by reflecting your prerequisites (MEE 340 & 352 possibly instructors/grades and if sufficient for MEE 452), our class work and reasons for not completing the tests as expected (Quiz & Midterm).
NOTE: I will be in Office for your Appointments or Stop-bys on Thursday after 1:50 PM for as long as it takes and most of Friday, except for my Friday Appointments elsewhere from 11:45-1:45 PM and 3:15-4:45 PM.
(HW#8a due Fr 10-14-2011 or before): Instead of having class on Th Oct. 13, 2011 you will have to have an individual meeting with me (in my Office on Thursday or Friday this week) to discuss your progress in class, including the Quiz and Midterm exam outcomes. You may stop by during our 10-13-11 class time and my Office Hours or make an appointment.
NOTE: The Quiz/Midterm solutions are "temporary stored" and will be re-posted after we discuss and finalize all grades.
(HW#8b due Tu 10-18-2011): Weekly Project progress report is due every Tuesday's class until the final submission. There should be a specific new work done every week and should be documented in writing and submitted as Weekly Project PROGRESS Report.
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Homework Week/No. 7: Assigned in week of Tu, 10-04-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#7a due Tu 10-11-2011):
Project progress report as explained in class: specific objectives/users' requirements and a printed relevant reference are mandatory, plus any other progress. There will be NO class on Th 10-06-11 to allow you to work on your project, also to emphasize importance to start and make progress on your project ASAP/Immediately. See Design_Project-Discription.htm
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Homework Week/No. 6: Assigned in week of Tu, 09-27-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#6b due Tu 10-04-2011, no late submission will be accepted):
Redo "In-class Midterm" exam as the "Take-home Midterm" for extra credit, as explained in class and per distributed Midterm Problems' sheet. Previous HW Problem 1-15 (Textbook p.79-80) has to be redone and submitted as a prerequisite to the Take-home Midterm for extra credit, as announced in class.
(HW#6a due Th 09-29-2011):
Redo again HW#2b, i.e., Problem 1-15 (p.79-80) for credit for 9/29/2011 and as Take-home midterm for 10/4/2011 as explained in class (download Hardy-Cross and Ex.1-11n13 MathCAD files and if corrupted check your mail)
Midterm is on Thursday September 29, 2011
Our first Midterm exam is scheduled for Th 09-29-2011. Review all covered reading assignments so far (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4), including all examples, homeworks, and class-worked exercises. Review and/or summarize all covered chapters and fully understand and be familiar with all concepts, formulas and quantities with units in those formulas, as explained in class. Tu 09-27-2011 is a review class and there will be no new materials covered before the Midterm. Quiz solution is posted for your review.
Review Midterm/Exam Policies (Show all your work for full credit): For Midterm and Final exams staple together in this order from top to bottom: Quiz/Midterm/Final Exam answer form, 4-sheet-blank-paper-set for Midterm, or 8 for Final (exact number s must be submitted even if blank), and Multiple Choice answer form (the last page in the stapled set). Bring the latter with your personal Textbook, pen, pencil and a calculator, etc. Test and exams may be (in part or in whole) closed notes, handouts and textbook, or allowed selected handouts (prepared by Instructor) and/or open textbook. I also advise you to review other learning aids on the Publisher’s Textbook Web if available.
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Homework Week/No. 5: Assigned in week of Tu, 09-20-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
NOTE that NOT all Examples in the Textbook has complete MathCAD file given (to avoid repetition and save on the textbook page size), but only relevant new data are given to be implemented in general procedure given in the previous Examples. After learning the concepts and reviewing and understanding all Examples you should be able to complete MathCAD file on your own and redo any other example assigned. *
Next class Review and Midterm on Th 9-29-2011 Design-Methods-Ch4-pumps_452/sld009.htm
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(HW#3c due Tu 09-27-11): Review Chapter 4, p.252-329 including all examples (do not submit them) and prepare a written summary of the most important correlations for pumps and fans and be ready to give physical explanations. See Lecture Notes and Pumpschool.com, also www.GouldsPumps.com & www.BuyaPump.com/shop/. Use a Fluid Mechanics textbook if needed.
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Homework Week/No. 4: Assigned in week of Tu, 09-13-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
NOTE: We plan to take our Class-Photo on Tu 09-20-11, so please color-up & dress-up if you want - it is FREE! Then, Check your name spelling on Class Picture (after the link at top page above is updated) and email to me if any correction is needed.
(HW#3c due Tu 09-20-11):
Reconsider your design project proposal to be a "Solar water heating system for application of your choice (to be approved), as per our discussion in class, and submit the third draft by the above deadline (new abstract and schematics). The design project must involve a branched piping system with at least one heat exchanger and one pump. Start researching the related references and learning about the solar water heating systems, their requirements and typical components.
(HW#3b due Th 09-15-11):
Update/reconsider your design project proposal and submit the second draft, as per our discussion in class and your related (re)search. The design project must involve a system with at least one heat exchanger and one pump (or compressor or fan). It should have an objective to accomplish some practical purpose in a real-life. The textbook and the references in it, and instructions given in class, should provide some examples and ideas to formulate your proposal. Think of it as a professional bid to obtain a contract from a possible customer. The proposal should have clear and concise description of project objectives and methods of how to accomplish them, as well as schematics of the proposed system and its major components.
(HW#3a due Tu 09-20-11):
Study Chapter 3, p. 169-242 and all examples (do not submit them). Study in full details Example 3-6 and the corresponding MathCAD program and prepare a presentation for next lecture, similarly to my class presentation of Example 3-2. Submit a handout/summary of your presentation by emphasizing the most important items. You should be able to explain meaning of every formula and all quantitative values in the program and show where they come from (refer to the corresponding Textbook page # or other reference if needed).
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Homework Week/No. 3: Assigned in week of Tu, 09-06-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#3a due Th 09-08-11):
Provide one-page abstract and one page schematics of your individual Design Project PROPOSAL with preliminary objectives. You may change your project later before the deadline for project approval, to be announced soon.
NOTE 1: Your design project has to include at least one heat exchanger in addition to branched piping system with pump/compressor/fan, as discussed in class
Review and recalculate all results presented during the Design Project Example lecture (see PPT Lecture notes, and PDF format for printing). This should give you an idea to formulate a proposal for your project in the near future. Many of the technical details and procedure related to Fluid-Thermal System design will be covered during the semester.
NOTE 2: There may be some mistakes or inconsistencies in the presented Example as discussed in class.
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Homework Week/No. 2: Assigned in week of Tu, 08-30-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#2b due Tu 09-06-11):
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(HW#2a due Th 09-01-11):
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Homework Week/No. 1: Assigned in week of Tu, 08-23-2011 (Due as per rules if not specified otherwise):
(HW#1b due Tu 08-30-11):
(HW#1a due Th 08-25-2011 but no later than Tu 08-30-11):
TA Assignment at the beginning of every semester: Please print, read, and understand the following links:
TA Work Description (including Sample Excel Grade Sheet) and Important TA Role in Education Process, as well as relevant Course Syllabus, HW Assignments, Office Hours and Info, etc., and show all those to me during our next meeting. Email to me your contact information, your class and any other schedules during the current semester, and your TA Office Hours. More information at: www.kostic.niu.edu/GradAssts.html .
Review related Web posting: Some Suggestions for Problem Solving.
Textbook:
Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach, Latest Edition, by Y.A. Cengel, WCB McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA. (TOC)
Supplemental references:
In addition to numerous references given in the Text, other references will be given during the lectures along with handouts and additional materials when appropriate.
Solar Thermal Design: Research, Design and Installation of a Solar ... www.uni.edu/ajur/v1no4/Sorter%20et%20al.pdf
ME 1065: Thermal Systems Analysis and Design - Thermal Systems me1065.wikidot.com
