MEE501 Fundamentals of Energy Conversion

Instructor: TBA

This course will focus in the following areas, macroscopic and microscopic analysis of direct and indirect energy conversion in thermomechanical, thermochemical, electrochemical, photoelectrical, and thermoelectrical processes; general thermodynamics and chemical kinetics for thermal, chemical and electrochemical systems in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments; kinetic theory and transport phenomena; introduction to semiconductor theory. Theory and methods will be applied to combustion and reformation, catalysis, batteries and fuel cells, supercritical cycles, photovoltaics, and thermoelectric devices.