2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Work-In-Progress: Fluid Mechanics - One Size Fits All?

Presented at WiP: Interdisciplinary Connections

Institutions of higher education are under increasing pressure to balance delicate budgets. Meanwhile, engineering programs, relatively speaking, are more expensive to deliver than most other undergraduate programs. One approach to address financial constraints while maintaining quality is to employ a model of interdisciplinary core classes. Rather than have every engineering discipline offer its own class, institutions can encourage combined classes. These opportunities exist for courses like thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer for disciplines like chemical engineering, civil engineering and mechanical engineering. The case study presented for this paper is a fluid mechanics course offered in Fall 2024 that is taught by a chemical engineer for mechanical and civil engineering students. The instructor originally delivered the course to chemical engineering students and modified it to include content like Pascal’s Law of Pressure transmission, a topic that is more relevant to disciplines like mechanical engineering. This paper will share changes the instructor made to the course and describe plans for future work.

Authors

Dr. Tamara Floyd Smith West Virginia University Institute of Technology [biography]

Tamara Floyd Smith is a Professor of Chemical Engineering. She became a full-time engineering faculty member in 2003 and currently serves as a faculty member and administrator. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Dr. Gifty Osei-Prempeh http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5702-1409 West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Dr. Yogendra M. Panta P.E. West Virginia University Institute of Technology [biography]

As a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at West Virginia University Tech Beckley Campus, he specializes in the field of thermal-fluid sciences, with research expertise spanning fluid mechanics, heat transfer, aerodynamics, and computational fluid mechanics.
Dr. Bernhard P Bettig West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Dr. Kenan Hatipoglu West Virginia University Institute of Technology [biography]

Kenan Hatipoglu is the chair and associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He completed his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

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The full paper will be available to logged in and registered conference attendees once the conference starts on June 22, 2025, and to all visitors after the conference ends on June 25, 2025

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