Life Long Learning & Learning Strategies Experience

Fluid Mechanics

Context & Rationale:

Program Outcomes, known also as Student Outcomes, are abilities to be

demonstrated by students by the time of graduation from their Bachelor degree.
The Mechanical Engineering program (and any engineering program for that
matter) at UOB has adopted ABET’s Student Outcomes (SOs 1 – 7). These seven
outcomes are shared with you on the course syllabus.

This learning experience addresses one of those outcomes and that is SO # 7 “an
ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate
learning strategies”. The intent is for you (students) to take initiative of your
learning and to engage yourselves in learning experiences which are beyond
those outlined in the syllabus for the Fluid Mechanics course.

• An emphasis here is on Life Long Learning and on developing an ability to

recognize the need for seeking knowledge continuously.

• The emphasis as well is to use effective and appropriate learning strategies.

Appropriate learning strategies can include taking special courses; undergoing

research experiences; synthesizing knowledge; learning a new coding language
and applying it; learning a simulation tool and applying it; interviewing experts –
whatever is appropriate for the task or application.

Additionally, students take their first course in Fluid Mechanics mostly because
their curriculum for their engineering major requires it. However, the fact is that
students encounter real-life applications or hear about Fluid Mechanics processes
without really appreciating them. Students will benefit by acquiring an
appreciation for the endless list of Fluid Mechanics applications and will have the
opportunity to expand their knowledge, recognize Fluid Mechanics phenomena,
and apply appropriate learning strategies to enhance their learning.

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Objectives:

1. Connect students with a spectrum of wide-ranging applications in Fluid

Mechanics
2. Expand students’ knowledge of the World around them as it involves many
applications of Fluid Mechanics
3. Provide students with the opportunity to self-learn and research topics and
applications relevant to their major (Mechanical, Civil, and Chemical)
4. Integrate and synthesize new knowledge for the purpose of expanding
students’ knowledge
5. Engage students in their learning experience by taking an initiative towards
learning about an area or an application of interest to them and to become
active learners.

How?

Student teams of fives will select an application or an area of study, preferably

relevant to their engineering major. Students are to read carefully the section
above titled “Context & Rationale”. Each student team will synthesize their
learning in the form of a fifteen minutes presentation. All teams will be present so
that all can benefit from the exposure they would have to other presentations
and applications. Students are encouraged to exhibit their learning strategies
through the use of videos, images, equations, charts, or a combination.

ROI

In addition to the learning that students acquire and the expanded knowledge
they develop about a spectrum of applications and related concepts, students will
be rewarded by earning points which would count as 10% of their final course
grade.

Suggestions for Applications (Areas of Study):

The following constitute a suggested list of applications student teams may

choose to pick from. Student teams are free not to select an application from the
list and are encouraged to pick an application of their choice.

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 1. Stability of floating bodies such as a floating concrete canoe
2. Sprinklers and irrigation systems design
3. Flow networks such as the plumbing system of your house
4. Selection of pumps and fans
5. Lift and drag: Quantification and applications
6. Shock waves
7. Open channels flow such as the flow of rivers and floods
8. Flow measurement devices
9. Viscosity measurement
10. Hydroelectric turbines
11. Natural phenomena such as hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis
12. Water hammers
13. Fluid mechanics of propellers (Momentum)
14. Jet propulsion (Momentum)
15. Rocket Mechanics (Momentum)
16. Rainfall-runoff capture
17. Turbomachinery

Suggested Skeleton of Fluid Mechanics Presentations:

Dear Teams,

Each team will have 15 minutes of Show Time (Twelve minutes of presentation and
3 minutes for Q/A). You are free to split your presentations amongst yourselves
with the expectations that each member will present. We strongly urge you to
designate one person as the team leader (the facilitator and coordinator) who will
make sure proper follow up on progress is taking place and that each team member
is carrying their own weight. To assist you in designing an effective presentation,
you might want to follow the following structure for a total of around 12-13 slides,
each about a minute of presentation time.

 Cover Page (title, your names, etc. ) = one slide

 Presentation Outline = one slide
 Topic (System) Background/Introduction = two slides
 Modeling via Fluid Mechanics principles = four slides
 xxxxxxxxxxxxx: = two slides
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 Conclusions = one slide
 Contributions of team members (listing of what was done by whom) = one slide.

Process for Submission:

You are to e-mail your presentation using the following file name convention:

Mech 243 L3 Name 1 Name 2 Name 3 Name 4 Name 5 Sp21-22 Sec 1 (or 2).pptx

to haissm.haidar@balamand.edu.lb for students of section 1 or

to karim.nasr@balamand.edu.lb for students of section 2.

Due Date: May 05, 2022. You are urged to work on this presentation during the
breaks of Easter and Eid El Fitr.

We wish you the best of luck and we look forward to learning from your learning
journey.

Dos and Don’ts and Some Techniques for Effective Oral Presentations

[[extracted from: Engineering Design Process 2nd Edition by Yousef

Haik, Tamer M. Shahin, and Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan]]

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