Heat Transfer is a junior level Mechanical Engineering Technology course offered once per year at MSCD. The course is composed of a 2 credit-hour lecture section along with a 1 credit-hour lab. Currently this course is taught by Peter Higgins. Peter has been teaching here since 2005, you can learn more about him on the Engineering Technology faculty site, or send him an email at Peter Higgins.

Listed below are 7 experiments that our students performed in the Fall 2006 and earlier. Click on any one to go to the experiment page to see details of each experiment along with pictures of the students performing them. Generally we try to do four of these during the semester.

LabVIEW, a product from National Instruments, is being introduced in this lab for simulating instruments such as digital multimeters for data logging to expose students to state-of-the-art methods of data acquisition and analysis.

The Objectives for this lab course, which form the basis for determining students grades are found here.

Experiment 1 - Dwelling Analysis

Uses HOT2XP to perform a dwelling analysis on student's residence to predict energy costs based on home's construction and Denver weather

Experiment 2 - Critical Radius of Insulation

Demonstration of Critical Radius using glass tube on electrically heated NiCr wire

Experiment 3 - Lumped System Analysis

Cooling of an initially oven-heated 1 " brass ball in an air stream

Experiment 4 - Armfield Heat Exchangers

Study of heat transfer in three common types operating in parallel and contraflow

Experiment 5 - Pool Boiling

Study of the phases of boiling from a heated wire in a low temperature boiling fluid

Experiment 6 - Using Thermocouples

Hands-on construction of K type thermocouples, and the use of equipment to record temperature data

Experiment 7 - Numerical Analysis

Study of 2-D steady state and transient analysis of thermal diffusion in simple objects with insulated and non-insulated boundaries (eg nuclear fuel rods)