Information for Students Taking my Classes
ME 199 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design
ME 495 Thermal-Fluid Sciences Laboratory
Movie of a transonic F14 at sea level (neat flow visualization) (1.32 Mb)
Movie This animation depicts the trajectory of TWA Flight 800 from the explosion in its center wing fuel tank to the fire and the breakup of the jet (Courtesy of the NTSB, 4.3 Mb).
Movie Explosion tests using a quarter-scale model of the center wing fuel tank using Jet A Fuel and Simulated Vapors. The tests were conducted by Dr. Joseph Shepherd, of California Institute of Technology, in conjunction with Applied Research Associates (Courtesy of the NTSB, 1.6 Mb).
Cool web site: You can build a walking machine and control the muscles, gravity, etc.
So you want to be an engineer: Do you have the knack?
Here is a web site for the NIST thermophysical properties on the web: http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/fluid/
