Boiled Egg

Paul Campbell, University of Technology, Jamaica, School of Engineering
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Initial Publication Date: October 14, 2024

Summary

The Student is to learn how to estimate the time that it will take to boil/cook an egg

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Learning Goals

Students will reinforce Transient Heat Transfer concepts
The will also learn a few skills in managing and using tables in Matlab.
They are expected to formulate procedures to arrive at the required solutions.

Context for Use

Junior College
Assignment
With some work, it could be made into a Live Script
Will teach how to lookup values from tables

Description and Teaching Materials

This is the Leaner File for Heat Transfer Problem. It was done in Matlab Grader. IT seems that the Problem Description and Instructions cannot be converted to a file, and therefore cannot be shown on this page. This is a work in progress.
Learner File For Boiled Egg Problem (MATLAB Live Script 4kB Oct14 24)
Thermo Property Tables (Matlab .MAT File 16kB Oct14 24)
Printout of Matlab Grader Page (Acrobat (PDF) 261kB Oct14 24)

Teaching Notes and Tips

This is a work in progress, and is not yet ready to be published. Engineering students in their Junior years begin to be exposed to complex multi-part problems. This is an effort to use Grader to support assessment of these types of problems.

Assessment

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