LTC Whipple Develops New Heat Transfer Lab

Jason Whipple, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, developed and implemented a new laboratory for the Heat Transfer class to review structured computer programming techniques for the Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering majors enrolled in the course. LTC Whipple's review provided a simple overview of numerical and computational topics required for the class engineering design project using Matlab (Computer Programming Language), basic structured programming fundamentals and advanced plotting and graphing. The laboratory experience included numerous handouts with useful information and an instructor-led practical exercise solving a two-dimensional, steady conduction problem in Matlab, and modeling a second-order partial differential equation formulation of the Heat Diffusion Equation.