日常生活に役立つ公開・出前講座

－熱・沸騰・地球温暖化－

抄録

A series of extension courses, aiming to give useful information and insight to machines and physical phenomena in daily life, is briefly introduced. Lecturers organize a group, named as “Home Doctors”, consisting mainly of researchers in mechanical engineering. The author covered the following topics; 1) What is heat? What is temperature?, 2) Mechanisms of boiling, 3) Mechanisms of global warming, and 4) Mechanisms of energy devices. In addition, preparing and giving these lectures have been found to be faculty developments for each lecturer; i.e. they helped improving skills of presentation and lecture design.