Date I took this class: Spring 2009
Teacher: Dan Noren
Teacher's site: None
Grade earned: A
Book used: Introduction to Heat Transfer
By Frank P. Incropera
Professor Noren is, overall, a very good teacher.
Noren teaches the class from basic principles and gives students a solid theoretical background on the subject.
Noren has a tendency of getting side tracked, but these detractors usually lead to interesting thermodynamics information.
Noren is a practical teacher. He teaches the course using specified guidelines and procedures which are usually easy to understand and apply to heat transfer problems.
Noren assigns homework from the textbook. All those who do the homework usually pass with A's.
Noren's exams are based almost exactly on the homework.
The Heat Transfer text is required but is not used in class. Homework is assigned from it and the data tables in the back are essential.
The following are a few of the homework assignments I have finished using MATLAB
Problem 1.2 - Plotting heat loss vs. outer wall temperature for three thermal conductivities
Problem 2.8 - Plotting temperature distributions in a plane wall
Problem 7.1 - Plotting velocity and thermal boundary layers for several fluids
Problem 7.16 - Plotting heat loss vs. the free stream velocity of air
Problem 7.41 - Plotting heat flux vs. stream velocity of several fluids