TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Thomas, Bernd
A1  - Fosheim, Jesse
A1  - Gagne, Armand
A1  - Johnson, Pete
T1  - Enhancing the undergraduate educational experience : development of a micro-gas turbine laboratory
JF  - The international journal of mechanical engineering education
N2  - A Capstone C30 MicroTurbine has been installed, instrumented, and utilized in a junior-level laboratory course at Valparaiso University. The C30 MicroTurbine experiment enables Valparaiso University to educate students interested in power generation and turbine technology. The first goal of this experiment is for students to explore a gas turbine generator and witness the discrepancies between idealized models and real thermodynamic systems. Secondly, students measure and analyze data to determine where losses occur in a real gas turbine. The third educational goal is for students to recognize the true costs associated with natural gas use, i.e. the hidden costs of transporting the gas to the consumer. Overall, the gas turbine experiment has garnered positive feedback from students. The twenty-six students who performed the lab in Spring 2014 rated the quality and usefulness of the gas turbine experiment as 4.28 and 4.19, respectively, on a 1-5 Likert scale, where 1 is low and 5 is high.
KW  - GAS turbines
KW  - undergraduates
KW  - electric power production
KW  - thermodynamics
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 0306-4190
SS  - 0306-4190
U6  - https://doi.org/10.7227/IJMEE.0015
DO  - https://doi.org/10.7227/IJMEE.0015
VL  - 42
IS  - 3
SP  - 267
EP  - 278
S1  - 12
PB  - Sage Publishing
CY  - Los Angeles
ER  -