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    This document summarizes an experiment where students in an introductory fluid mechanics course used carburetors from small engines to learn fluid mechanics principles in a hands-on way. Students worked in teams to explore how carburetors work, then performed labs applying concepts like fluid statics, control volumes, internal and external flows. The paper describes the activities and tracks refinements over three years. Student feedback showed the carburetor labs helped apply abstract concepts to a real system and justified evolving the activity.

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    This document summarizes an experiment where students in an introductory fluid mechanics course used carburetors from small engines to learn fluid mechanics principles in a hands-on way. Students worked in teams to explore how carburetors work, then performed labs applying concepts like fluid statics, control volumes, internal and external flows. The paper describes the activities and tracks refinements over three years. Student feedback showed the carburetor labs helped apply abstract concepts to a real system and justified evolving the activity.

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    Introductory Fluid Mechanics Taught Using A Carbur PDF

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    This document summarizes an experiment where students in an introductory fluid mechanics course used carburetors from small engines to learn fluid mechanics principles in a hands-on way. Students worked in teams to explore how carburetors work, then performed labs applying concepts like fluid statics, control volumes, internal and external flows. The paper describes the activities and tracks refinements over three years. Student feedback showed the carburetor labs helped apply abstract concepts to a real system and justified evolving the activity.

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    Introductory Fluid Mechanics taught using a carburetor

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    DOI: 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.6541

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    Introductory Fluid Mechanics taught using a carburetor
    Andrew Trivett, Andrew Milne, Cecile Devaud, Tyler Gallant

    The typical fluid mechanics introduction in mechanical engineering covers basic fluid statics, forces on
    submerged bodies, control volumes, continuity, conservation of momentum, conservation of energy,
    Reynolds' transport theorem, internal and external flows. Students often struggle with the basic concepts
    and how they might apply to a real system.

    In the winter of 2015, a new set of open-ended labs were created for mechanical engineering students.
    Teams of 3 or 4 students in a third-year class of 110 were each given a small engine, and removed the
    carburetors. The series of labs had them discover some of the principles within the small carburetor from
    a single-cylinder 4-stroke gasoline engine. Students were asked to explore and explain how the
    carburetor worked, and then progressed through a set of hands-on labs culminating with a design
    modification and performance measurement of a real carburetor. At each stage, the students applied
    principles of fluid statics, control volumes, internal flow losses, and external flow drag to the physical
    device.

    The paper will describe the specific activities, and track the evolution of refinements to the experience
    through three implementations of the same course by three different instructors. Student feedback and
    measured evidence of learning will be reported to help justify the evolution of the activity. The
    scalability of the activity will be discussed.

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