ME-4204: Internal Combustion Engines
Description: Analysis and design of gasoline and diesel engines. Fundamental processes and their application in current technology. Thermodynamics: air standard and air-fuel cycles. Combustion: stoichiometry, fuels, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, flame propagation, knock, pollutant formation and control. Flow processes: volumetric efficiency, intake and exhaust tuning, two-stroke scavenging, carburetion, fuel injection, super- and turbo-charging.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 20
Average GPA: 3.01 (B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 22.47%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 4.31%
| Alan A Kornhauser | 2018 | 33.3% | 39.9% | 21.8% | 1.2% | 1.3% | 2.5% | 3.03 | 16 |
| Michael W Ellis | 2023 | 27.9% | 35.6% | 21.6% | 1.1% | 2.2% | 11.6% | 2.94 | 4 |