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Professor
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M.
Pinar Mengüç
269
RGAN; Ph.
257-6336 x 80658;
E-mail:
menguc@engr.uky.edu
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Class
Schedule
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MWF
10:00 am to 10:50 a.m., CRMS 323
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Office
Hours
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MW
11:00 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.
(other times by appointment).
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Text
Book
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No
need to purchase any textbook. We will handed out
notes during the semester from:
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Selected pages from the pre-print of the upcoming
book by Gang Chen (Oxford University
Press, 2005)
• Class Notes by M. P. Menguc;
• Programming Notes by B. Wong;
• Research Papers.
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Assistants
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Basil
Wong
318
RGAN Bldg; Phone: 257-6336 x80697;
E-mail: btwong0@uky.edu
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Homeworks
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There
will be regular homework assignments. They
will be handed out
occasionally, and need to be turned in within one
or two lectures later.
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Midterm
Exams
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During the semester, there will be two 50-minute
exams on the following dates:
October 8; November 5 (Fridays)
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Final
Exam
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There
will be no Final Exam; During the Final Exam
Period, we will have Term-Paper Presentations.
December
15,
8:00 am - 10:00 pm, CRMS 323
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Term
Project
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There
will be a “reading” project for graduate and professional
students. All other assignments will be the same
for all students.
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Grading
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Exams
20% each; Final 20%; Homeworks 30%; Reading Project
10%.
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Course
Goals
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This
course will introduce you to the concepts of nano-scale
thermal sciences. You will understand the fundamentals
of energy carriers, including photons, phonons,
electrons, and molecules; conceptualize wave and
particle formulations. The topics to be discussed
includes statistical thermodynamics, energy transfer
via electron, electromagnetic, acoustic waves;
Boltzmann equation and particle-model based transport
phenomena; conduction and radiation analyses for
thin films and rarefied gas flow models; Schrodinger
equation and its solution for different systems;
the details of energy states in solids. You will develop the skills necessary to identify
and analyze different modes of energy transfer
and their interactions. You will learn to setup
the governing equations of different systems at
nano-scale and solve the equations for simple geometries.
You will learn to read and interpret the papers
published in scientific and trade journals to stay
on top of your field.
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Other
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