New Course “Applied Thermal Plasmas”

for undergraduate students MEM 380/001, CRN 24353

for graduate students MEM 800/002, CRN 24354

instructor: Professor Alexander Fridman

The new course for undergraduate and graduate students presents fundamentals and applications of modern plasma engineering. Students will learn some basics of plasma science as well as introduced to plasma engineering techniques – the innovative thermofluidic methods widely applied today to electronics, micro- and nano-fabrication, material treatment, microbiology, medicine, fuel conversion, hydrogen production, combustion stabilization and environmental control. Plasma Engineering is the major technology in making your computers, cell phones and other engineering devices, not to forget about the Plasma TV.

The course is to be interesting and useful for students majoring in mechanical, materials, electrical, chemical and environmental engineering, as well as for students from bio-medical engineering. Textbook to be used in the course is “Plasma Physics and Engineering” by A.Fridman & L.Kennedy, 2004, Taylor & Francis, N.Y., L.