Syllabus

Applied Thermodynamics
MIE210H1S
Lecturer: Prof. Nasser Ashgriz Mech. Eng. Building, Room 229,
Email: ashgriz@mie.utoronto.ca

Office hours: 11-12 Mondays and Thursdays - Other times by appointment.

Textbook: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 9th edition - By Moran et al.

Marking:
Quizzes 30%
Lab Reports 15%
Mid-Term Test 20%
Final Exam 35%

Quizzes on Tutorial (30%): There will be weekly quizzes, which will be held in the tutorials.
Quizzes will be given at the start of the tutorials and they are open book only. The quizzes will
relate to the material in the corresponding chapters and the suggested homework problems.
Homework problems will not be collected.

Laboratory Experiments and Lab. Reports (15%):

There are five lab experiments as part of this course.
The groups and the specific date and time for each group is posted in the course website.
The lab location is at MC120. Each group will have 1.5 hours to perform an experiment. You
must be in the lab at the start of the assigned period.

The lab reports must be prepared according to the format described by the Engineering Writing
Procedure (www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/lab.htm). Your lab report is due in two weeks after the
lab experiment was performed. The reports should be handed in the next lab session to your lab
TA. Late submission may not receive a grade.

Mid-Term Test (20%): TBA. Open Text Book only

Final Exam (35%): TBA. Open Text Book only

The key to be successful in this course is to solve as many problems as you can, and solve
them independently.

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 Quiz Schedule 
Week of Quiz Subject Relevant Problems:
Developing Eng. Skills
Jan 14 Introductory concepts (Chap 1) 1-58
Jan 21 1 (50min Introductory concepts and Energy and 1-58 and 10-70
Quiz) the First Law (Chaps 1 and 2)
Jan 28 2 Evaluating Properties (Chap 3) 1-50
Feb 4 3 Properties – Continue (Chap 3) 51-99
Feb 11 4 Control Volume Analysis (Chap 4) 1-50
Feb 25 Midterm Chapters 1-4
Mar 4 5 Control Volume - Continue (Chap 4) 51-88
Mar 11 6 The Second Law (Chap 5) 1-64
Mar 18 7 Using Entropy (Chap 6) 1-60
Mar 25 8 Entropy - Continue- (Chap 6) 61-125
Apr 1 9 Exergy (Chap 7) 1-90
TBA Final Exam Chapters 1-7

Tutorial TAs:

Khalil Sidawi ksidawi@mie.utoronto.ca

Patrick Mirek patrick.mirek@mail.utoronto.ca
Kamran Mahmudov kamran.mahmudov@mail.utoronto.ca
Solmaz Karamikamkar s.karamikamkar@mail.utoronto.ca

Lab TAs:

Maryam Ebrahimiazar maryamea@mie.utoronto.ca

Ali Naseri anaseri@mie.utoronto.ca
Ehsan Jafarzadeh ehsanj@mie.utoronto.ca

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 Safety
As professional engineers in training, you have a duty of responsibility to ensure that safety is duly
considered at all times. To this end, you are expected to behave with your personal safety and the
safety of others in mind. In order to be allowed access to any undergraduate labs, including
computer labs, it is mandatory that you complete the MIE online health and safety training course.
Instructions for the completion of safety training requirements have been sent in an e-mail to all
students. Safety training can also be accessed at:

https://safetytraining.engineering.utoronto.ca/"

Academic Integrity
Students are expected to conduct themselves in accordance with the highest ethical standards of
the Profession of Engineering and evince academic integrity in all their pursuits and activities at
the university. As such, in accordance with the General Academic Regulations on Academic
Integrity, students are reminded that plagiarism or any other form of cheating in examinations,
term tests, assignments, projects, or laboratory reports is subject to serious academic penalty (e.g.
suspension or expulsion from the faculty or university). A student found guilty of contributing to
cheating by another student is also subject to serious academic penalty.