ME 353Heat Transfer 1

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• HT is usually one of the harder courses in 3B, but John Wen made it easy on us. The first half of the course focuses on conduction and fins, and the midterm average was around 88%. The second half covers convection and radiation, which normally feels overwhelming because of there is like 25 different equations for specific conditions, but Wen was clear about which ones to use on the exam, so there was no guessing. The lab is fairly tedious, but the TAs mark it lightly. Overall, this ended up being one of the easier courses in 3B with a lighter workload, and it will likely be one of your highest marks (even higher than ME 380).

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• I feel like Wen saw our class depressed over all of our other courses in 3B and went "easier" on us. The exams were of relative difficulty and fair, but nothing ridiculous. The practice problems prepared you quite well for the exams and allowing us to bring a cheatsheet was very nice.

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• This was my favourite course in my entire degree, and probably one of the most useful too. I found this the case even though the lectures are quite dense with information, and demand your full attention. If you stay on top of problem sets up until midterms and genuinely take the opportunity during tutorials to collaborate, the rest of convection becomes SIGNIFICANTLY easier. The most important and heavily-weighted topics are extended surfaces (fins), transient conduction, external convection, and internal convection. Extended surfaces is a common theme that continues to show-up in problems throughout the course.
  Also, Prof Daun was an amazing professor that genuinely cares about the course…

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• fun course in lectures but oh boy the exams are cooked.

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• Courses content is pretty interesting, the prof was really engaging. Sometimes difficult to find what is important from the slides. The weekly quizzes greatly helped in learning the content imo. Enjoyed the tangent stories as well. Exams were pretty fair overall.

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