PROJECTS
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Project Guideline
List of Previous Projects
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SPRING 2004 |
Tyler Campbell and Curtis Rands "A Heat Transfer Investigation of Sleeping
Bags"
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WINTER 2005 |
Jon Isaacson "Thermophysical Properties Calculator"
Joseph Jackson, Lamar May, Robert Robins "Sunroom Design Problem"
Dan Karpowitz, Jon Day, Ryan Blanchard "Analysis of Convection Correlations for
a Cylinder in Laminar Cross Flow"
Frank Gossett and Douglas Merrell "Out of the Fire and into the Frying
Pan"
Paul Black, Mark Eilertsen, Evan Jones "Transient Response"
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FALL 2005 |
Brian Andersen and Joey West "Heat Transfer From a Formula SAE Exhaust Manifold"
Nathan Bloomfield, Josh Carroll, and Brian Winder "Brake Rotor Temperature"
Greg Metzgar and Joseph Wahlquist "Temperature Approximation of Rocket Motor Casing"
Brandon Mecham and Jeremy Nowland "Maximum Stove Heat Flux"
Darin Juncker and James Hall "Experimental Analysis of Glass"
Spencer Hovey and Nathan Clark "Discussion of Heat Transfer in Nuclear Reactors"
Phil Kim and Josh Zimmerman "Heat Transfer of a Griddle"
Scott Pruett and Scott McEuen "Emergency Blanket vs. Standard Sheet"
"Fish They want to be comfartable too..."
Justin Baker and Cameron Andersen "Forced Convection of Ramen Noodles by Human Expiration (a
college student's life made easier by thermal analysis)"
Jacob Morgan and Erin Reed "The Effect of Aluminum Foil on Baking a Potato"
Scott Lemmon and Charlie Crosby "Blow Dryers (A heat transfer problem waiting to happen)"
Stephen Evans and Samuel Seager "What is the Optimal Size for a Solar Absorber?"
"The Hand Warmer Experiment"
Ryan Horschman and Lee Batt "Heat Loss Through Walls"
Tyre Bateman, Kevin Price, and William Blattman "Flow Over Flat Plae (Comparison of ANSYS,
FLUENT and Theoretical Solution)"
Theron Mitchell and Nathan Cramer "Heat Loss through Window Panes"
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FALL 2006 |
Tony Rands, Adrian Williams and Josh Dustin "Heat Rate to a Chocolate Chip
Cookie through various cooking Surfaces"
Eldon Loose and Robert Brown "Window Efficiency"
Sam Sanderson and David Theurer "Heat Transfer rates through a bedroom window
with and without an A/C unit"
Cole Chamberlain and Rob DeCosta "Bonding stuff with a Heat Gun"
Matthew Vogel and Matt Nichols "Cold Hands? Which Hot Chocolate Cup is the best
Hand Warmer?"
Mark Thompson, Owen Carlson, Spencer Smith "Tinted Windows"
Amber Broderick ">Metal vs. Glass The effect of conduction in baking"
Ryan Woodland and Rob Branham "Why do my windows get frosty?"
Sean Ricks and Derek Pedersen "Custom Cold Air Intake"
Royce Tatton "Analysis of PC Chip Heat Sink Design"
Dan Korth and Corey Christensen"Radiant Home Heating Systems"
Tim Bishop and nathan Packard "The Heat Sink"
Brad Borchert "Internak Flow in a Chimney Flue"
Drew Hosford and Brianne Hamilton "The Frigid Fabric in Falling
Flurries Phenomenon"
Richard Galati, Brent Smith and Justin Pierce "Feedwater Heater
Heat Transfer"
Aaron Rowe and Kenneth Johnson "Pipe Quenching"
Brad Allen, Joseph Ashby and Aaron Worlton "Very Light" Wing
Billet Thermal Analysis"
Nathan Hill and John Marshall "Paying to Warm Up Provo"
Ryan Johnson, Desiree Wolfgramm and John Wolfgramm"Baking Time:
Baking Cakes of Science"
David Pendleton and Timothy Pickett"Hot Potato!! ...and how to
keep it that way"
Miles Jackson, Matt Cragun and Luke Graham"Matching CFD to Reality"
Travis Kenworthy and Matt Christiansen"Nusselt Number
Calculator"
Download and extract, then run Nusselt.exe
Paul Andrus"Wind Chill Calculator"
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WINTER 2007 |
Sterling Andersen and David Segrera "Peak Temperatures and Cooling
Rates in Friction-Stir-Welded X-65 Steel"
Majid Abbasi and Jian Lu "Temperature Profile in the Stir Zone of
Friction Stir Welds "
Josh Bryson and Russel Aldridge "The Convection Workbook
Simplifying Calculations" DOWNLOAD WORKBOOK
Grant Daniels and Ben Spencer "Cooling Time for Electric Range
Coil"
Adam Brandt and Kelly Layland "Saving Battery Life on a Laptop
Computer"
David D. Furse "Lukewarm Bath Trevention"
Matthew Hunter and Jared Oehring "Transient Conduction & Biot
Number Calculator"
Ryan Huff and Scott Wood "Metabolic Heat Generation During
Exercise"
Andrew Enke and Steve Jensen "Chemney Guys - flow rate, average
heat transfer coefficient, and total heat transfer rate"
Brent Weaver and Rebecca Sin "Comparison of Experemental Results
with Quiz #6"
Joonshick Hwang and Bian Pickup "The Pizza Pouch Ptroject"
Jennifer Quincy, David Miller and Jake Edmunds "Can Irradiance be
Found Using Properties of Paint"
David Matsumura and Ryan Sydenham "Metallic Ablation Model"
Mike Mantyla and Steve Harston "The "Cooling Soup" Dilemma"
Brian Casaday and Cody Heslington "Firewalking"
Carlos Armendaiz and John Scaalje "Fins Design Project"
Moises Alcevedo and Jordan Ryskamp " A Heat Transfer Approach to
Sleeping Bag Ratings"
SLEEPINGBAGCOMPARISON.COM
Jake Hunter and Dave Richards "Cool-Down Experiment"
Aaron Packard "fabric Material Properties"
Troy Nietschmann and David Garrett "Analytical Validation of
Commercial Wood-Burning Stove Perfomance"
Nathan Rhead and Mike Tricarico "Calculating the Conductive
Coefficient of Acrylic Plastic - can we actually use the stuff Dr. Solovjov taught us?"
JMichael Chai, Levi Haupt and Chris Roberts "917X Display
Temperature Offset"
Chris Christensen and Michael Davis "Who let the Cold out?"
Tyler Purcell and Derek Lee "A Comparison of Heat Flux Through
Double- and Single- Paned Windows"
Ben Pace and Alan Bordon "Heat Transfer Project"
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SUMMER 2007 |
Matt Munyan and Clifton Mortensen "Verification of Heat Transfer
Prediction with Ice-Cream"
Paul Gollnick, Dave Garrett and Will Watson "Experimental
Wallboard: R-Value Validation"
Dave McClelland and Jacob Zuehl "Analytical Model of the Cooling
System of a Formula SAE Race Car"
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WINTER 2008 |
Shaun Jeffs "Energy Savings of Insulated Glazing Units - The Cost Effectiveness of
Double-Pane Windows"
Jeff Krise "Home Insulation"
Ryan Dymock and Nathan Albrechtsen "Warming Milk"
Bryce McEwen "1-Dimensional Transient Calculator" DOWNLOAD
Clayton Nylander and Amy Gordon "Castle Defence"
Michael Rose and Daniel Madsen "Wetsuit Thickness"
DOWNLOAD
Boyd Black, Benjamin Hillyard and Kent Fairbourn "Clyde Lobby Windows Heat Loss"
Brady Aydelotte and Spencer Harding "Offensive Heat Transfer in the Middle Ages"
Eric McKane and Benton Russel "Ambient Temperature inside an Automobile Subject to
External Conditions"
Thomas Morris and Jacob Hannon "Heat Loss calculator for a Stainless Steel Complex
Pipe System"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
Daniel Carlson and Daniel Ricks "Heat Transfer from Water Bottles"
Bryce Cox and Dallin Bullock "Furnace Efficiency"
Jordan Englund "Solar Cooking"
Benjamin Crummett "CPU Cooling"
Brad Elmer and John Pearson "Heat Transfer and the Human Head"
Eric Radford, Keith Stolworthy and Jonathan Woahn "A Study on the Effect of Heat
Transfer Methods on Orthotic Preparation Time"
Cris Egbert and Jon Pruett "Space Mysteries"
Scott Bartz "Heat Transfer of Stove for Peru"
Garrett Bodily "Pipe Flow Calculator"
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WINTER 2009 |
Trevor Hedman and Kendall Hill "Energy Savings of Standard Wall Types in Natural gas"
Jed Goodell and Jesse Williams "Heat Sink Calculator"
Autumn Glenn and Phil Harris "Home Depot Windows"
Dave Marriott and Tim Jenkins "Brake Rotor Perfomance"
Curt Wengel and Yanal Issac "Heat Transfer"
Richard Dewey and Stephanie Kirkham "Baking Potatoes"
Matt Ballard and Brooks Lively "Temperature Control of Filament Composites during the Gelling Process"
Brian Phillippi and Daniel Rowe "Hot Chocolate"
Raheel Aslam and Prasad Weerakoon "Atmospheric Processes - Radiation"
Brandon Eagar and Robert McClain "Issued Footwear Analysis"
Evan Selin and Terrance Hess "Finite Difference Analysis of a Flat Plate"
Jeremy Alsup and Mark Daniel "To Zip or Not to Zip?"
Thomas Ames and Mark Cutler "FLPROPS - The Fluid Properties Calculator"
Ashley Lavin and Ken Ross "Heat Loss Through the Tool in Friction stir welding"
Jess Rose and Jeff Amelang "Wind Chill Calculator (Bald Head Convective Calculator)"
Jeff Fisher and Matt Maxfield "Outdoor Apparel Insulation"
Felicia Marshall and Seth Winsor "How Long Is Ice Cream Safe On Your Counter?"
Grant Evans and Marc Simonsen "Don't Touch the Stove!"
David Jones and Michael Wilcox "Peltier Devices"
Joran Booth and Peter Hyatt"Temperature of 100W Light Bulb Filament"
Brandon Woodland and William Gough"Sensor Pipe Heat Transfer"
Levi Leishman and Jared Warren "Cylindrical Chamber"
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WINTER 2010 Sections 1 and 2 |
01 Matt Robinson and Thomas Tolman "Convective Coefficient Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
02 Christina Lambertson "Boiling an Egg"
03 Chad Pharo and Chris Howald "Lumped Burrito"
04 Spenser Madsen and Dan Shelly "Hot Dogs, Hot Dogs, and More Hot Dogs ..."
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
05 Michael Root "Is Your Refrigerator Running"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
06 Katherine Reinke Deason "Semi-Infinite Solids Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
07 Austin Richardson and Preston Hennrich "Convective Coefficients for Various Lid Materials"
08 Steve McFarland and Aaron Boyd "HUNGRY??? GRAB A CHIMICHANGA!"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
09 Mike Meaders and Ashok Tamang "Energy Efficient Windows"
10 Yamil Perez "Water: A Balloon's Best Friend"
11 Robert Porter and Justin Alder "Moody Friction Factor Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
12 Oliver Johnson and Sam Wilding "Nusselt Number Calculator"
DOWNLOAD MATLAB
14 James & Nicole Bangerter "Ice Cooler"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
15 Kasey Pearce "Window Comparison"
16 Brad Roper and Ryan Lundgreen "Solving Transient Conduction Problems via Lumped Capacitance or Analytical Approximations"
17 Benjamin Parker and Cesare Jenkins "Thermophysical Properties Calculator for Excell"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
18 Jordan Holmes and Stephen Merrill "Thermal Conductivities of Oven Mitts"
19 Jonathan Scott "Heating of Magnesium Plates"
20 Scott Skousen and Robert Fowler "Picking a Pipe for Heating Water in a Lava Flow"
21 Brent Stayley and Brad Smith "Heat Transfer Project Billet Temperature"
22 Colin Slade "A Goofy Movie"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
23 Michael Koecher and Tyler Collins "The H Calculator"
24 Fengqi He and Nanzhu Zhao "The Effect of the Forced Convection vs Free Convection"
25 Kyle Dallon and Natalie Gibb "Cool Down Experiment"
26 Scott Condie, Jordan Felckner and Daniel Barlow "Heat Transfer Semester Project"
DOWNLOAD
27 Jenny Pate "Heat Transfer to a Sunroom"
28 Bryson Taylor and Mark Pettys "Soup Cooking: Finger-Licking Heat Transfer"
29 Russel Dibb "I Eat Heat Transfer for Breakfast"
30 Robert Campbell "Gas or Electric - A Heated Debate"
31 David Christensen and Vance Murray "Application of Heat Transfer to Ensure Product Safety on a Prosthetic Device for Finger"
32 Kurt Hendricks and Nathan Toone "Gas-Filled Windows"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
33 Jacob Allen and J. Erik Hulme "Heat Transfer through the Walls and Windows"
34 Jacob Hipps and Doug Wright "Heat Transfer through a Wall with a Double Pane Window"
35 Ben Richards and Michael Plooster "Insulation Thickness Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
36 Brian Spencer and Steven Besendorfer "Effect of Fins on Heat Transfer"
37 Sam Anderson and Eugene Hart "Incredible Edible (Hard-boiled) Egg"
38 Addison Parks and Andy Gerla "Geo-Exchange"
39 Ken Langley and Robert Klaus "C is for Cookie: Modeling Cookie Cooling with Matlab"
40 Ashby McCort and Tyler Jeppesen "Finding the length of Pipe Needed to Heat or Cool a Fluid"
DOWNLOAD MATLAB 1 DOWNLOAD MATLAB 2
41 Adam Piepgrass "Heat Loss Comparison: Doors and Windows"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
42 Devin Athey and Travis Rampton "Heat Transfer for a Zirconium Billet"
43 David Christensen and Vance Murray "Application of Heat Transfer to Ensure Product Safety on a Prosthetic Device for Finger"
44 Tyler Carr and David Bilodeau "Qualitative Measure of Reflectivity"
45 Ashby McCort and Tyler Jeppesen "Finding the length of Pipe Needed to Heat or Cool a Fluid"
DOWNLOAD MATLAB
46 Jacob Adam "Boiling Water Calculator"
Application
47 Mark Farnelius and Luke Duffield "Designing a Better Camping Pot"
48 Timothy Jackman, Matthew Barg and Emily Peterson "Lumped Capacitance for Meats"
49 Mitch Hadley and Dustin Price "Evaluation of Two Thermoses"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
50 Jedediah Alvey "Free Convection of Household Heater"
51 Mike Call and Gregg Rasmussen "Heat Transfer Through Windows" An Energy and Cost Analysis
52 Kevin Stubbs and Brad Ivey "Peruvian Water Heater"
53 Brandon Horsley and Nate Tullet "Developing an Excel Spread Sheat to Calculate h"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
54 Wendy Lee and Dan Morgan "Survival Time in Freezing Water"
55 Nick Wasley and Allan Peadan ""
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
56 Jonathan Mecham "Chemical Hand-Warmers (Total Heat Output Compared to Typical Body Calorie Burns"
57 Justin Rhodes and John Rebarchik "Free Convection Correlations"
58 Julius Adebayo "Cooling of Chips in Circuit Boards"
59 Joseph Paredes and Daniel Tanner "Project"
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FALL 2010 |

01 Mathew Marshal and Kevin Hoopes "Heat Sink Analysis: Analitically and via ANSYS"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
02 Benjamin Baird and Michael Jarvis "Transient Conduction of a Turkey"
03 David Reece "Effects of Fat Thickness on Heat Transfer"
04 Nick Smith "Heat Transfer in Concentrated Solar Power Systems"
05 Miguel Perez and Joel Shepherd "Temperature Distribution on a Hot Plate"
DOWNLOAD JAVA CODE
06 Dan Hendricks and Peter Ashworth "Jumping Drops"
007 Brad Glenn and Mason Campbell "Heat Transfer in a Rice Cooker"
08 Jared Briggs and Nicholas Heward "Efficiency of Frac-Tank Heating Unit"
09 Melissa Armstrong and Micah Christiansen "Internal Flow calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
10 Eric peterson and Darrell Skousen "Melting Ice - Convection"
11 Ryan Vorwaller and Dustin Peterson "Greenhouse Heating"
12 Jeff Nuss "Which Material for Thermal Underwear is Best?"
14 Satyan Chandra and Jordan Walser "Minimum Cooling Time for Metallurgy Applications"
15 Andrew Parry "Do Bigger or Smaller Diameter Straws Cool Hot Drinks More"
16 Timothy Ruggles and Heath Whitter "Dough Thickness for Kurtoskalacs"
17 Tim Doot and Sabin Gautam "Effects Different Insulating Materials Have on Heat Transfer through Exterior House Walls"
18 Bryan Johnson and Devin LeBaron "Rocket Man"
19 Greg Teichert and Kyle Halgren "2D Transient Conduction Calculator Using MATLAB"
DOWNLOAD MATLAB
20 Arrian Forbush and Ryan Heap "Honeydew Chill Time"
21 Joey Nielson, Derek Jensen and Robb Hays "Apparel Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
22 Stephen Cluff and Diksya Prasai "Role of Heat Conduction in a Jominy End Quench"
23 Clark Davis "U-Factor Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
24 Clint Collins and Alan Day "Heat Transfer Coefficient - Determining heat transfer coefficient experimentally"
25 Bibhisha Uprety "Winter Rule: Add Layers for Flayers"
26 Allison Lee and Victoria Lee "Hot Dog!"
27 Larry Moore "Microwave Efficiency"
28 Sayantan Ghosh and Avinesh Ojha "Calculation of Cooling Time for an AISI 304 Steel Heating Rod"
29 Daniel Ellsworth "An Analysis of Heat Transfer Thgrough Mylar Emergency Blankets"
30 ""
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2011
FALL 2011 |
00 Jessica Bauer and Marina Samuels "Pumkin Guts"
01 Matthew Elverud and Roger Smith "Real Life Fin Problem"
02 Pravin Sharma, Samip Subedi and David Mikkel Hansen "Time Calculation of the Temperature Rise in an Electric Iron"
03 Gus Omer and Randy Hurd "Fuel Reservoir Heating"
04 David Weston and Larissa Cannon "Hot Potato!"
05 Adam Hickman and Brennan Crellin "Multi-Layer Sphere Tempearture Analysis"
06 Phillip Thomas "Heat Losses in a Car in the Winter"
07 Austen Gee and Samikshya Subedi "The Problem of Grilled Cheese"
08 Melissa Barraza and Dustin Gerrard "A "Hairy Problem" in Heat Transfer"
09 Steven Brewer and Tyler Christiansen "Lumped Capacitance Analysis of Steak"
10 Regie Hyppolite and Justin Hyatt "Wind Chill Factor"
11 Bryan Moosman and Andrew Martinson "Modeling Heat Transfer Through Turbine Blades"
12 Steve White and Ryan Anderson "This Old House"
14 Brettany Rupert and Brett Rowberry "A Study of Heat Transfer to Carrots"
15 David Wheeler and William Tryon "Fractional Blackbody Emissive Power Solver"
16 Catalina Sanchez and Billy Hancock "Indoor S'mores"
17 Ryan Cluff and William Zenk "Human Heaters"
18 Kasey Gillespie and Leonidas Leite "You're Ready, but is your pizza Hot"
19 Paul Ziegenfelder and derek Bruton "Heat Transfer with Soloviev: The Game" DOWNLOAD GAME
20 Paul Kendall and Alex Perez "Rotor Warping"
21 Eric Luker and Chase Bailey "Thermos Thinking - A Study of Insulation"
22 John Hosford and Joshua Thornock "How Much Does a Cooling Pad Help Your Laptop?"
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2014
WINTER 2014 |
01 Clayton Grames "Heat Transfer in Lightsabres"
02 Todd Nelson and Kendall Thacker "We All Scream for Ice Cream"
03 Trevor Stephens "Fast Freezing Ice Tray: An Experimental Design Approach"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
04 Drew Anderson and Joshua Cluff "Energy Savings: Central AC vs Convective River Cooling"
05 Jared Bruton "Transformer Fin Heat Transfer"
06 Daniel Pizza and Casey Messik "MEEN 340 Project"
07 Kyle Layton and Ben Salazar "Sleeping Bag Comparison"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
08 Cory Newton and Greg Rumsey "Jacket k-Values"
09 Westley Christensen and Kendal Frogget "Heat Flux through Smart Phone Cases"
10 Tate Fanning and Harrison Douglass "Volvo V70R Brake Rotor Heat Transfer"
11 John Myers and Devin Anderson "Sleeping Bags for Every Season"
12 Scott DuBois "Heat Transfer through a Radiator"
13 Andrew Davidson "Cooking Chicken"
14 Kurt Hinkle and iVan Yorganson "Hot Plate Conduction Numerical Solver and Visualizer"
15 Spencer Ferguson and Natalie Siddoway "Transient Conduction Approximation Calculator (Lumped Capacitance and Analytical Approximations)"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
16 Nolan Crook "Energy Cost Savings Using Insulative Plastic Film"
17 Kelli Fredrickson and Adam Bilodeau "Convection Cooling Metal Plates"
18 Ryan Faber and Devan Anderson "Analysis of a Lightsaber"
19 Russel Peterson and Chris Mabey "Calculating k Values for Pipe Insulation"
20 Peter Hyoung "Nusselt Number Calculator"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
21 Shaun Heldt and Tyler Merrel "Thermal Analysis of the Necessity of a CPU Heat Sink Fan"
22 Chad Kingston and Garret Beaman "Engine Oil Safety"
23 Brandon Messer and Daniel Staves "Lumped Capacitance Calculator"
24 Trevor Clark and Eric Tingey "The Perfect Pizza"
25 Brandon Adamo and Jake Later "Lightsaber Calculator"
26 Jade Kowallis and Jordan Rhoads"Copper Pipe Wrapped in Heated Tape"
27 Daniel McArthur "Thermophysical Property Explorer"
DOWNLOAD TPE CALCULATOR
28 Colin Lacey "LabVIEW-TPCalculator"
DOWNLOAD LabVIEW-TPC CALCULATOR
29 Steven Swan and Chad Horch "Heat Loss Comparison"
DOWNLOAD EXCEL
30 James Jackson and Jordan Peterson "Cooling Hot Chocolate in an Insulated Container"
31 Landon Hansen and Trey Mortensen"Emissivity of White Camera Lenses vs Black Lenses"
32 Jandeog Lim "Calculation of Power Rating for MAN Diesel Engine"
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