EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS

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Educational Activities
Professor Amon teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in general areas of
Mechanical Engineering, thermo-fluid sciences, design and computational methods.
She involves undergraduate students in her research projects and organizes pre-college
outreach activities.

Courses
  • Engineering Design Project Course
  • Fundamental of Mechanical Engineering
  • Engineering Design
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Mechanical Engineering Seminars
  • Mathematical Techniques in Mechanical Engineering
  • Graduate Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulent Flow and Transport
  • Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
  • Advanced Topics in Fluid Mechanics
  • Preparing for a Faculty Career

    Projects
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics of Intravenous Membrane Oxygenators (Artificial Lungs)
  • Hemodynamics of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAAs)
  • Transient Cooling of Portable Electronics
  • Modeling, Design and Optimization of Progressive Cavities Pumps

    Publications in Education Literature
  • Amon, C.H., Finger, S., Siewiorek, D.P. and Smailagic, A.
  • "Integrating Design Education, Research and Practice at Carnegie Mellon:
    A Multi-disciplinary Course in Wearable Computers",
    ASEE J. Engineering Education, pp. 279-285, 1996.
  • Ambrose, S. and Amon, C.H.,
  • "Systematic Design of a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University",
    ASEE J. Engineering Education, Vol. 86 (2), pp. 173-181, 1997.
  • Finger, S. and Amon, C.H.,
  • "Designing and Prototyping Interactive Fluid Dynamics Exhibits for the Carnegie Science Center: An Undergraduate Team Project Experience",
    Invited Paper, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, CD-ROM
    ISBN 0-7803-4089-2, 1997.
  • Oms, L.J., Torres, E. and Amon, C.H.,
  • "The Water Table: A Fluid Exhibit for the Carnegie Science Center",
    ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, CD-ROM
    ISBN 0-7803-4089-2, 1997.
  • Subrahmanian, E., Westerberg, A.W., Taludkar, S.N., Garrett, J., Jacobson, A.,
  • Paredis, C., Amon, C.H., Herder, P.M., and Turk, A.,
    "Integrating Social Aspects and Group Work Aspects in Engineering Design Education,"
    Int. J. of Engineering Education, Vol. 19 (1), pp. 75-80, 2003.
  • Wesner, J.W., Garrett, J.H., Subrahmanian, E., Westerberg, A.W. and Amon, C.H.,
  • " Carnegie Mellon's Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Projects Course Serves a Variety
    of Students and Project Sponsors,"
    Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004.





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