Reigniting thermodynamics education through hands-on learning and interactive web applets

Principal Investigator
Prof. Cullen Buie, Mechanical Engineering
Fund: d'Arbeloff Fund
Funding Period: AY2017
Department/Lab/Center: Mechanical Engineering

These interactive modules will improve the junior year thermodynamics curriculum for roughly 150 students per year in the department of Mechanical Engineering. This subject matter is required for all Course II and IIa students. Thermodynamics will become a truly mens et manus portion of the MIT- Mechanical Engineering education. Some or all of these modules will be incorporated into the MITx version of 2.05 currently being developed by the PI, to release as a MOOC in Spring 2017.