Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA
Abstract
This paper explores the use of a computational tool developed in Microsoft Excel to enhance the students’ understanding of the different psychrometric processes of moist air in courses such as Thermodynamics and Air Conditioning. The proposed computational tool allows students to focus on more design-oriented problems. Furthermore, students will have the ability to see immediate results to variations of the design conditions as well as different parameters that would affect the different psychrometric processes. The proposed tool also gives students a quick visualization of the evaluated psychrometric process in the psychrometric chart as well as the ability to quickly determine psychrometric properties of moist air. Feedback from students and class instructors proves that the use of the proposed tool significantly enhances the student learning experience in these two courses, make the course more dynamic, and motivate the students to learn the material.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Education
Cited by
2 articles.
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