Prof. Arava teaches heat transfer, nanomaterials, battery systems and innovation courses in the James and Patricia Anderson College of Engineering, bringing current battery and nanomaterials research into the classroom.
Conduction (steady and transient, one and more dimensions), radiation (Kirchhoff’s law, black bodies, diffuse surfaces, gases and flames) and an introduction to convection, with laboratory experiments.
Prerequisites: ME 3300, ENG 3050; professional engineering programs.
How size effects control the behavior of nanomaterials; processing routes to new structures; design of nanoscale devices for automotive, aerospace, environmental and energy applications, with current literature.
Graduate standing in science or engineering.
Electrochemistry and engineering of propulsion batteries: lead-acid, nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion technologies.
Graduate standing in science or engineering.
Transport phenomena and rate equations; lumped, differential and integral formulations; separation of variables, superposition, Laplace transforms and Duhamel’s integral; thermal and combustion systems.
Graduate students in the James and Patricia Anderson College of Engineering.
Physics and industrial practice of ultrasonics, vibration, acoustic emission and thermal-wave NDE, plus penetrant and eddy-current methods, illustrated with laboratory experiments.
Graduate standing in science or engineering.
