Graduate Teaching

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Graduate Teaching

At the graduate level, I teach various courses in the fluids/thermal area, ranging from entry-level fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and convective heat transfer to advanced topics in fluid turbulence.

Goals

At the graduate level, two types of students need to be served

the professionally-oriented students, who want to earn skills and credentials that will help them in their careers.
the research-oriented students, who need to become familiar with the range of ideas in their field of specialization

At the entry level (first year graduate), I strongly believe that one must choose the perspective of the course to suit one or the other group, rather than compromise with both. For more advanced courses, being responsive to diverse interests in the class is usually very productive.

Information technology can take a different role at the graduate level, where more independence and different motivation can be expected from the students. My turbulence course , accessible by password only, combines

an electronic textbook, including nearly 250 pages of cross-linked material. The advantage of the hypertext form over the printed form is that, after covering the material sequentially to follow the lectures, it can be reexplored thematically for better learning
an automated quiz environment, in which a different selection of questions is called up interactively, graded on the spot, with links to relevant pages of the texbook
a newsgroup space, in which class-wide discussion on various topics are organized for asynchronous use. This seems to be a good tool for informal homework, in-depth discussion and peripheral topics that add substance to the course beyond what can be covered in class.

Experience

At one point or another, I have taught the following courses:
o MEE 651 : Thermodynamics
o MEE 643 : Fluid Dynamics
o MEE 657 : Convective Heat Transfer
o MEE 741 : Turbulence
o MEE 746 : Viscous Flows
o MEE 849 : Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics

Jacques Lewalle, jlewalle@syr.edu