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ME 4131

THERMAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

SYLLABUS

Instructors:
Dr. James Ramsey Dr. Thomas Kuehn
ME 1100A ME 3101C
625-8390 625-4520
jwramsey@me.umn.edu kuehn001@umn.edu

Teaching Assistant(s):

Nikhil Ramesh

ME 362

625-1510

rame0036@umn.edu

Required text:

ME 4131 Thermal Environmental Laboratory Manual

Reference texts:

• Kuehn, Ramsey, and Threlkeld: Thermal Environmental Engineering, 3rd ed., 1998
• McQuiston and Parker : Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning, 6th ed., 2005
• Duffie and Beckman : Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, 1991
• ASHRAE Handbook series

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Grading distribution (100% total):

• 2 formal reports 30 % (10 % for draft, 5 % for revised final version)
• 5 informal reports 45 % (9 % each)
• 5 data sheets and test on C programming 15 % (2.5 % each)
• lab participation                                                5 %
• pre-lab quizzes 5 %
  Total 100%

Schedule of lectures, lab sessions, and assignments

Due dates:

• Informal reports and data sheets are due one week after the completion of the lab, at the beginning of the next lab meeting.
• For formal reports, first versions are due two weeks after the completion of the lab. The reports will be returned with comments.
• The final versions of the formal report will be due one week after they are handed back. No late final versions of the formal reports will be accepted.
• The following table shows the due dates and penalties for all reports

Lab Day	Due Date	15% Penalty if received by:	No Credit if received after:
Wednesday	following Wednesday	Monday after due date - 4 pm	4 pm Monday
Friday	following Friday	Wednesday after due date - 4 pm	4 pm Wednesday

The lab participation grade is determined by lecture attendance, participation in lab, and evaluations of each student by their group members.  The peer evaluation will be done at the end of the semester.

Each student is responsible for his/her own work, i.e. any cases of plagiarism or copying of other reports will be treated as per the Student Conduct Code.

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Working Together and Plagiarism
(from the AEM 4602 course website, used with permission from Tom Shield)

plagiarize
vt. [<L. plagiarus, kidnapper] to take (ideas, writings, etc.) from (another) and offer them as one's own. (source: Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, D. B. Guralnic, ed., William Collins Publishers (New York) 1979.)

Plagiarism is grounds for receiving an F in this class. You are assigned to do your laboratory experiment with a team. However, the contents of your report must be your original work. The following points may help clarify the situation:

• All of the text of your report must be your original writing with the exception of any direct quotes from sources that you clearly reference.
• All calculations must be performed by you. You may discuss data reduction with your lab partners and you may start from a common spreadsheet of raw data when the data is collected as a group. However, all analysis and comparisons to theory must be done by you individually.
• All figures presented in your report must have been prepared by you. Any exceptions to this must be clearly labeled as the work of others. Note that you are not allowed (by copyright laws) to copy the artwork (drawings, figures, photos, or plots) of others without permission. You may use a figure prepared by one of your lab partners, such as a drawing of the experimental apparatus, if you clearly cite the author.

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