Honors Freshman Engineering Clinic II

Spring 2007 Project Description

Honors Freshman Engineering Clinic differs from typical sections of Freshman Clinic II since focuses on a product or process which addresses a significant contemporary issue within a societal and global context. Focusing on products/processes with broader societal impact requires additional reading assignments, extraordinary design and development effort and field work, where applicable. In its pilot offering in Spring 2007, the Honors Freshman Clinic II section will focus on the general theme of Global Warming, with the specific project focusing on biodiesel production from waste vegetable oil. In this project, the students will evaluate existing package biodiesel reactor systems available in the commercial market and will manufacture a similar reactor in-house. Students will interface with the Rowan food service staff and local fast food restaurants to develop a plan to obtain fuel feedstocks that will enable the production of enough biodiesel fuel to operate a biodiesel powered shuttle bus between the main Rowan campus and the West Campus. In addition to the technical content of the course, students will complete a set of assigned readings from the popular press, trade journals and scientific literature.


Biodiesel Gear Model 30 Processor	Freshman Engineering Clinic II (Honors) ENGR 01102-06 Catalog Description: In today's quickly changing and increasingly competitive market place, it is imperative that manufacturers keep abreast of the technological advances and design innovations incorporated into competing product lines. The term competitive assessment or reverse engineering has been coined by manufacturers to describe the process of ethically acquiring, inspecting, analyzing, instrumenting and testing the product lines of other manufacturers. You will be required to use the skills obtained in Freshman Engineering Clinic I. Developing engineers with hands-on practice is critical to the economic development of US industry. Instructor: Anthony J. Marchese Download Section 6 Syllabus here Office: 215 Rowan Hall Download Frosh Clinic Syllabus here Phone: (856) 256-5343 Email: marchese@rowan.edu
home and objectives	Spring 2007 Project Description Honors Freshman Engineering Clinic differs from typical sections of Freshman Clinic II since focuses on a product or process which addresses a significant contemporary issue within a societal and global context. Focusing on products/processes with broader societal impact requires additional reading assignments, extraordinary design and development effort and field work, where applicable. In its pilot offering in Spring 2007, the Honors Freshman Clinic II section will focus on the general theme of Global Warming, with the specific project focusing on biodiesel production from waste vegetable oil. In this project, the students will evaluate existing package biodiesel reactor systems available in the commercial market and will manufacture a similar reactor in-house. Students will interface with the Rowan food service staff and local fast food restaurants to develop a plan to obtain fuel feedstocks that will enable the production of enough biodiesel fuel to operate a biodiesel powered shuttle bus between the main Rowan campus and the West Campus. In addition to the technical content of the course, students will complete a set of assigned readings from the popular press, trade journals and scientific literature.
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Global Warming Links
Biodiesel Links
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Rowan University • 201 Mullica Hill Road • Glassboro, New Jersey 08028 • Phone / 856.256.5343 Contact marchese@rowan.edu with questions, problems or comments. ©2007 Anthony J. Marchese.