Design, Fabrication And Testing A Heat Exchanger As A Student Project

This paper describes the design-fabrication-test of a simple heat exchanger as a final year design project for undergraduate engineering students. Design can be defined as the use of imagination, knowledge, experience and judgement to define a particular end project (1). Much of this activity cannot be taught as a body of knowledge, like an engineering science. Students can only learn to design and gain experience by being actively involved. Hence the need to teach design through projects.