Integrating Fundamental and Industrial Applications in a Heat Transfer Course, R. J. Schoenhals and D. P. DeWitt, Proceedings of 24^th Annual Conference of Frontiers in Education, Institute of Electrical Engineers, Inc. and American Society for Engineering Education, November 2-6, 1994, San Jose, California, Edited by Lawrence P. Grayson, P. 469-472.

Student Team Projects Dealing with Industrial Applications in a Heat Transfer Course, R. J. Schoenhals and D.P. DeWitt, Proceedings for the 32^nd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, October 29-November 2, 1995, New Orleans, Louisiana, Edited by D. Hui and S. Michaelides, p. 513-514.

Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Paper Drying, Wai-Kin Tong, MSME Thesis, August 1993, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (research supervised by R. J. Schoenhals).

Professor Schoenhals has supervised the laboratory portion of the Purdue Mechanical Engineering undergraduate course in heat and mass transfer (ME 315) periodically throughout his time at Purdue. During the past 5 years he has instituted student team projects dealing with industrial applications into this program. The student teams design and construct their own apparatus, make measurements in the laboratory, perform analysis and deliver reports (both written and oral) on their procedures and results. Each semester there is a wide variety of project topics, with some involving heat transfer and some involving both heat and evaporation mass transfer. The first two publications listed above briefly summarize these activities. Both regular experiments and some of the team projects have involved radiant lamp heating and convective heat and mass transfer (evaporation). This work, along with the MSME thesis listed above, is highly relevant to industrial coating operations. Professor Schoenhals has also directed research, and co-authored a number of technical publications, on energy-related topics. These include work on gas-fired pulse combustion heat transfer, off-peak electrically charged thermal energy storage devices, household refrigerator efficiencies, and efficiencies of heat pumps in terms of the second law of thermodynamics. In summary, Professor Schoenhal’s interests and experience are highly relevant to the heat and mass transfer rate aspects of coating operations, as well as the energy efficiency issues associated with these processes.

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