Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

acquired by thestudents. I. IntroductionTo build a foundation on process modeling and simulation, undergraduate students are offered anintroductory course on the subject, ENGR 3410. Typically, students take this course in the junioryear. This course provides an introduction to material and energy balances in engineeringapplications, including chemical, environmental and biological systems. Use of software toolssuch as Matlab and Excel is made to solve engineering problems. The textbook by Felder andRousseau1 is used and the following topics are covered in ENGR3410: 1. Introduction to Engineering Calculations 2. Typical Processes and Process Variables 3. Fundamentals of Material Balances, Total

Conference Session

Project Based Learning In ET Program

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston - Downtown; Matthew Stevenson; Sanjo Peter, University of Houston Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, Kv: 0.0167 gpm/% speed = 3.85 in3/min/%speedUsing this data, equation (4) yields: h( s ) K  e 0.083s 0.0684  e 0.083s GPL , A ( s)   v  (5) Vv ( s) A s sThus, Equation (5) gives the transfer function between the water level (in %) and the pumppower (in %). It can be used to tune the level PI controller according to any chosen tuningmethodology.5b. Temperature ModelThe model describing the effect of power to the heating element on the water temperature isderived by combining material and energy balances. Also, the following assumptions are beingmade: a. Water density and