Teaching Thermodynamics

Session One: Teaching Objectives.- Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics for the 1980s.- Why Has Thermodynamics become a "Difficult" Subject?.- Teaching Thermodynamics to First Year Engineers.- Short papers:-.- Better Thermodynamics Teaching Needs more Thermodynamics Research.- Thermodynamics - A Direct Approach.- Teaching the Second Law: Experience from the Open University Technology Faculty.- Teaching Engineering Applications.- Discussion.- Session Two: Innovative Methods of Teaching.- Materials Thermodynamics for Engineers.- Thermodynamics in a Broad Based Course.- Maximizing the Teaching of Experimental Thermodynamics.- Engineering Laboratory Teaching - A Case for Co-Ordination.- Developments in a First Course in Thermodynamics Using Tape/Slides.- Videodisc: A New Development in Visual Aids.- Thermodynamics for Those Who Think with their Fingers.- Short papers:-.- The Use of Small Computers for Teaching.- Resource-Based Learning in Thermodynamics.- A Laboratory Approach to Teaching Thermodynamics.- Discussion.- Session Three: Computer Oriented and Laboratory Oriented Demonstrations.- Real Gas Effect and Gas Liquefaction.- The Use of TV and Audio-Cassettes in Teaching Thermofluid Mechanics.- Computer Oriented Demonstrations.- Laboratory Oriented Demonstrations.- Session Four: Principles of Thermodynamics.- Teaching Thermodynamics to First-Year Students by the Single-Axiom Approach.- The Thermodynamics Laws from the Law of Stable Equilibrium.- Entropy and Temperature as Macroscopic Properties of Simple Thermodynamic Systems Independent of, but Measured by, Heat.- Thermodynamic Temperature - Dimensional Analysis.- Constructing Temperature and Entropy Scales.- Thermodynamics, A God with Feet of Clay?.- Thermodynamics as Engineering Science.- Short papers:-.- Introducing Basic Concepts of Thermodynamics.- On the Rational Definition of an 'Ideal Gas'.- Some Thoughts on Born-Carathedory.- Discussion.- Session Five: Applications of Thermodynamics to Design Assessment.- New Concepts in Thermodynamics for Better Chemical Process Design.- Relevance of 2nd Law Analysis in Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamic Syllabus.- Putting the Second Law to Work.- Process Feasibility and Thermodynamic Teaching.- Teaching the Exergy Method to Engineers.- Short papers:-.- Thermodynamics Applied to Energy Engineering.- Discussion.- Session Six: Syllabus Development.- Thermodynamics and Irreversibility.- Can Thermodynamics be Made more Simple?.- Thermodynamics: A New Teaching Approach.- Thermodynamic Nomenclature.- Thermodynamic Sign Convention and Nomenclature.- One World - One Thermodynamics.- Short papers:-.- Teaching Thermo-Fluid Mechanics at the Open University.- Chemical Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers.- Discussion.- Closing Discussion.- Bibliographay.- Steering Committee.- Attendees.