1. Review of Period 1 Team Formal Reports
Terry A. Ring
Chemical Engineering
University of Utah

2. Formal Report Abstracts Not Written Well Project Objectives
Experimental Procedures and Equipment
Summarize Findings Relevant to Objectives
Any important unexpected discoveries
Reasonable Conclusions
Thoughtful recommendations

3. Introduction On the Whole These Were Pretty Well Done
More References would be good.
Do References Correctly
Formal Report – References are End Notes not Foot Notes
Either
Seader, Henley and Roper, 2011
Seader, et. al.1

4. Apparatus and Procedure
On the Whole These Were Pretty Well Done
Some Missing Equipment Schematic Diagrams
Some with Diagram but without descriptive text
Table of Experimental Test Parameters
Note replicates of experiments for error analysis

5. Results and Discussion
Needs special efforts in Future
Writing Improvements
In Most Cases Text Too Short
Explain what is to be understood from Figures and Tables
Engineering Calculation Errors
Some Wrong Equations Used
Error Analysis
Mostly done incorrectly

6. Conclusions
On the Whole These Were Pretty Good

7. Logos Big Mistake Do Mass Balance or Energy Balance to:
Show losses in system
Show accuracy of your experimental method
Give the reader a belief that you know what you are talking about

8. Figures and Tables and Numbers in Text
Remember to put error bars on Data Points in Figures
Lines should be reserved for plotting an equation
Best Fit
Theory for comparison
Tables should be complete
A table of heat transfer coefficient data should have the Reynolds numbers associated with them not just expt 1, 2
The Table should be a summary not just clip out from Excel
Table Legends and Figure Legends
Give conditions under which data was taken
Remember to put errors on values in Tables and Error Bars on Data in Figures
Numbers in Text have units and should have error estimates

9. Error Analysis Serious Deficiencies in Error Analysis Performed
Each Data Point on a Graph needs an Error Bar
Each Value in a Table needs Error Associated with it
Each number in Text needs a confidence interval
If you can not tell me how good your numbers are, I do not believe them!
That is not a good starting point for your grade.

10. Team Debriefing What should the team have done better in Lab 1?
How Can the Instructors/Lab Manager/Lab Assistant/TA Help you Better?