Applied Thermodynamics

Where the first thermo course gave you the laws and the cycles in the abstract, this one pushes you to actually design and evaluate real thermal machinery — power plants, jet engines, IC engines, refrigeration loops, combustors — using exergy as the lens for where work is genuinely being lost. You'll spend the semester sketching T-s diagrams, running air-standard and Rankine analyses, working through psychrometric and combustion problems, and tying it together in a project, with four quizzes plus a midterm and final pacing the work. It's the bridge between sophomore-year thermodynamics and the propulsion, HVAC, and energy-systems electives that follow, and it's where the equations finally start looking like equipment you could point at on a plant tour.