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Lecture Notes

This page presents lecture notes and lecture slides for most lecture sessions.

Instructors: AP = Prof. Adam Powell, RK = Prof. Randolph Kirchain

Compiled notes from Professor Powell's lectures (PDF)

SES # TOPICS MOTIVATING PROCESSES Notes Slides INSTRUCTORS

L1

Introduction

  

(PDF)

  

AP

I. Solid Heat Treatment

  

L2

Introduction

Energy Conservation and 1-D Conduction

Various

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L3

Sphere Generation

Multilayers

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L4

Multilayers (cont.)

Biot #

Finite Differences

Glass-ceramics

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L5

Finite Differences (cont.)

Radiation

Polymer Extrusion

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L6

Dimensional Analysis

Furnace Wall

    

David Dussault (Guest Lecturer)

L7

Radiation (cont.)

Convective Cooling Curves

Dimensionless Graphs

Thermal Spray

(PDF)

(PDF - 2.7 MB)

AP

L8

Convective Cooling Curves (cont.)

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

II. Engineering Economics

  

L9

Introduction

    

(PDF)

RK

L10

Cost Modeling I: Unit Operations

Pizza Oven

  

(PDF)

RK

L11

Cost Modeling II: Cost Factors and Scale

    

(PDF)

RK

III. Liquid-Solid Processing

  

L12

Moving Bodies

Vacuum Arc Remelting

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L13

Moving Bodies (cont.)

Stability

Casting

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L14

Stability in Alloy Solidification

Injection Molding

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

IV. Fluid Behavior

  

L15

Introduction

Newtonian Fluids

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L16

Test 1

      

AP

L17

Viscous Shear

  

(PDF)

  

AP

L18

Tubes

Flow Rate

Sphere Flow

Precipitation, Bubbles

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L19

Sphere Drag and Reynolds Number

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L20

Engineering and Society

Particle Velocity

Lessons of 9/11

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L21

Friction Factors

Boundary Layers

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L22

Plate Drag

Turbulence

Fermentation

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L23

Turbulence (cont.)

Fermentation

(PDF)

  

AP

L24

Batch and Continuous Flow Reactors

Fermentation

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L25

Chemical Reactors

Porous Media

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L26

Porous Media (cont.)

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

V. Deformation Processing

  

L27

Non-newtonian Flow

Various

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L28

Deformation Mechanisms

Polymers, Metals

(PDF)

(PDF - 1.1 MB)

AP

L29

Sintering

HIP, CM

  

(PDF - 1.2 MB)

AP

L30

Test 2

      

AP

L31

Consolidation Processes

HIP, CM

  

(This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 1.8 MB)

AP

VI. Vapor-Solid Processes

  

L32

Evaporation Processes

Zirconia PVD

(PDF)

(PDF - 1.3 MB)

AP

L33

Vapor Phase Transport

Structure Formation

Thin Films

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L34

Patterning

Polymer Deposition

Polymer Sputter

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L35

Coherent/Expitaxial Films

Nanostructure Formation

VLS

(PDF)

  

AP

VII. Special Topics

  

L36

Process Selection

  

(PDF)

(PDF)

AP

L37

Costs of Materials Usage

    

(PDF - 3.3 MB)

RK

L38

Wrap Up

  

(PDF)

  

AP