Elamin, G. A. (2023, March), Assessing the Teaching of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics as a Blended Course at The Citadel  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--44989

\bibitem{asee_peer_44989}
  Elamin, G. A. (2023, March), \emph{Assessing the Teaching of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics as a Blended Course at The Citadel}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--44989

Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E..  "Assessing the Teaching of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics as a Blended Course at The Citadel".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44989 Internet.  13 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44989}
  Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E..
  "Assessing the Teaching of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics as a Blended Course at The Citadel".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44989 Internet.  13 May, 2024

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AB  - The teaching of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics courses is a challenging task for most instructors. The main challenge arises from the student’s preexisting perception about the difficulty of the thermal-fluid sciences. With this initial timidity in said student’s mind, teaching the thermodynamics and fluid mechanics as blended course adds another layer of nervousness and frustration to the student. While most institutions teach thermodynamics and fluid mechanics as separate courses, some have integrated the two courses into a two-course sequence, Thermal-Fluid Systems I and II, recently. The Mechanical Engineering department at our institution was established in 2014 and adapted the integrated model of teaching courses as a blended two-course sequence. After teaching these subjects in this model for eight years (2014-2022) by many different instructors, the Mechanical Engineering department at (Institution name) is planning to assess the effectiveness of this teaching model. The goal of this paper is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the blended model for teaching the thermodynamics/fluid mechanics subjects as compared to the separate course teaching model. Instructors will analyze students’ performance on exams, laboratory reports, and homework over the past years to gage the level of students’ understanding of both subjects (thermodynamics and fluid mechanics).  In addition to instructor analysis and findings, students’ feedback will be incorporated in the study via a survey distributed to students who took the two phases of the blended course. The result of this work will dictate the department decision to keep the blended model or to separate the thermodynamics and fluid mechanics courses and will be implemented in the next Mechanical Engineering curriculum revision at (institution name).

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