BioE 205 - BioEngineering Thermodynamics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of BioEngineering
Spring Semester 2014
Call Number: 25097
Class Schedule: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Tuesdays & Thursdays, Room 236 SEO
3 hours. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 141. Restricted to Engineering
Instructor: Dr. G.Ali
Mansoori, Professor, Office: 204 SEO
Phone: (312) 996-5592, E-mail: mansoori@uic.edu
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.
Recommended: D.T. Haynie, Biological Thermodynamics, Cambridge Univ Press,
2001.
Also instructor's personal notes and his Thermodynamics Educational
Websites.
