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ECE 309Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
Spring 2022

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2022 and last ran in Spring 2022. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W20
  2. S20
  3. W21
  4. S21
  5. W22
  6. S22

Ran in 6 terms, Winter 2020 to Spring 2022.

Macroscopic approach to energy analysis. Energy transfer as work and heat, and the First Law of thermodynamics. Properties and states of simple substances. Control-mass and control-volume analysis. The essence of entropy, and the Second Law of thermodynamics. The Carnot cycle and its implications for practical cyclic devices. Introduction to heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. Basic formulation and solution of steady and transient problems. Issues relevant to the cooling of electrical devices. [Offered: W,S]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: MTE 202, 203; Level at least 3A Mechatronics Engineering. Antireq: ME 250, SYDE 381

In today’s calendar

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84% liked it16% easy84% useful

From 25 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Study for the midterm like its your final, literally two separate halves to this course.

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  • Be aware that the final and midterm have (almost) completely different material. This is really two courses squished into one

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  • Do the assignments and learn how to use equations from each chapters and you'll be alright.

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  • Decent class if useful for you.

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

3 posts and comments in 2 threads mention ECE 309, September 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

Transferring from Mechatronics to Systems (1A) 6 points, 10 comments

“Contemplating transferring from mechatronics to systems design. Love the electrical and programming components of mechatronics, but the mechanical design portion (especially mte100) is something I …”

u/annihilatron: “they're not that mechanically based. About 1/4 of your courses will be grounded in mechanics/kinematics only, 1/4 will be pure electrical/controlsystems, 1/4 will be motors and the mix of …”

u/annihilatron: “everyone has to take a thermodynamics course. Trons get this condensed version which is two courses in one. actually a programming course for hardware. …”

u/straemer: “HAHAHA, you're kidding right? More like "oh lol, you don't have any pre-requisites for this course, so enjoy drawing random lines between boxes! Oh, and there's no textbook, so enjoy watching recordings of a prof talking into a microphone with lots of feedback! …”

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1993–94 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1993–94 to 1994–95 2 calendars

Macroscopic approach to energy analysis. Energy transfer as work and heat, and the First Law of thermodynamics, Properties and states of simple substances. Controlmass and control-volume analyses. The essence of entropy, and the Second Law of thermodynamics. The Carnot cycle and its implications for practical cyclic devices. Introduction to heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. Basic formulation and solution of steady and transient problems. Issues relevent to the cooling of electrical devices.

Teaching terms: W, F in 1993; W, S after 1993