BioE 205 - BioEngineering Thermodynamics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of BioEngineering
Spring Semester 2010
Call Number: 25097
Class Schedule: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM Tuesdays & Thursdays, Room 236 SEO
3 hours. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 142. Restricted to Engineering
Instructor: Dr. G.Ali
Mansoori, Professor, Office: 204 SEO (also 202 CEB)
Phones: (312) 996-5592 & (312) 413-7302, E-mail: Mansoori@uic.edu
Office Hours: 1:00 - 2:00 PM Tuesdays & Thursdays (Room 204 SEO)
Grade: Cumulative = Class Participation-15%, Homework-15%,
First Exam-20%, Second Exam-20%, Final-30%
(Note: all make up exams are oral exams)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Basic principles of energies, heat and work; energy conversions in bio systems; properties of substances and phase
transitions; 0th, 1st, 2nd and 3rd laws of thermodynamics; applications to bioengineering and living systems.
TEXTBOOK:
Required: M. Potter & C. Somerton, Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics for Engineers,
2006.
Recommended: D.T. Haynie, Biological Thermodynamics, Cambridge Univ Press,
2001.
Also instructor's personal notes and educational thermodynamic website at
the Thermodynamics Research
Laboratory site.