Pierre Proulx
ABSTRACT
Over the last 4 years, we have introduced in the Transport Phenomena courses the use of a flipped classroom with a novel web platform developed in our Department. This platform allows executing Python codes directly on the website and allows to follow and to quantify the overall progress of the students in the course. The platform and the use of python notebooks (Jupyter) aim at the use of the vast python open-source libraries to diminish the level tedious mathematical manipulations. The students can use the python packages as well to evaluate transport and thermodynamically properties calculations as well as the ever present mix of imperial, CGS and S.I. system of units that puzzles even seasoned engineers, thus keeping their focus on the basic principles and physical laws.
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- Transport Phenomena Teaching: a Modern Approach
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