Tahmid Ibn Sayeed

1)Teaching assistant for ME 215(Fluid mechanics 1)
2)Setting up labs for students
3)Performing lab demonstrations in lab sessions
4) Marking student logbooks

1) Project was based on Distillery heat recovery (using waste heat for alcohol ageing) and alcohol condensation the problem that the distillery was facing (not condensing enough Alcohol after changing to closed loop piping from open loop.

2)Designing a new condenser using epsilon-NTU method and then build CAD models using Solidworks of the condenser. Also selecting boilers and piping and performing cost analysis of all components.

3)The final solution (condenser, boiler, and piping) was able to increase condensation of alcohol to 100% (previously it was 67%) and was able to age alcohol 3 times faster.

1) Research topic was “how to automate crack propagation speed calculation (from video footage of high frame rate camera) for material crack testing in Dr. Jamie Hogan’s lab”.

2)Used MATLAB and its image processing add-on. Converted video footage into frames and then taught MATLAB features of the crack so that it identifies it. Using length change of Crack and time difference between two frames to find crack propagation speed.

3)Final solution was able to obtain crack speed within 10 percent tolerance limit for 20 specimens in Dr. Hogans lab.