MEC 173

About Course:

Course Code: MEC 173

Course Name: INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Credit Hour: 3

Not for BSME students. Topics will be discussed at the introductory level. The topics include: Power generation systems and related environmental issues. Study of fuels. Steam generation units with accessories and mountings; study of steam generators and steam turbines. Introduction to internal combustion engines and their cycles: SI engines, CI engines, and gas turbines with their accessories.

Refrigeration and air conditioning with their applications. Study of different refrigeration methods, refrigerants, refrigeration equipment: compressors, condensers, evaporators. Psychometrics, study of air conditioning systems with their accessories.

Types of fluid machinery, study of impulse and reaction turbines, Pelton wheel and Kaplan turbine. Study of centrifugal and axial flow machines; pumps, fans, blowers and compressors. Study of reciprocating pumps.

Course Objectives (COs):

1. To know various ways of power generation

2. To explain working cycles of mechanical machines

3. To calculate parameters of mechanical systems

4. To present different phenomena regarding Mechanical Engineering

Targeted Program Outcomes (POs): PO1, PO2, PO10