Sunday, July 19, 2009

Domestic Engineering


During the hot summer months, my old refrigerator runs almost continuously. I decided to help the heat exchange process by shunting some air conditioning to the back coils. It seemed to work.

An engineering solution of this magnitude is never the accomplishment of a lone individual. I must credit the excellent instruction in heat transfer that I received from my engineering professors at Iowa State University. Also, my success could never have been achieved without my Iowa primary school training in the use of scissors and Scotch tape.