The examination of a washing machine fill valve and subsequent testing and analysis are undertaken as a first fluid mechanics laboratory task. A primary intention in doing this is to put into perspective the role of a fluids engineer at a time in the students career when very little fluid mechanics technology is understood and when analytical lecture content is generally held to occupy too large a proportion of a student's attention in this area.
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HunkinT., The Secret Life of a Washing Machine, video made by Artefact for Channel 4 (UK television channel), first shown 22.11.1988.
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CushnieJ.BulloughW. A., ‘Group teaching in the fluids laboratory, Int. J. Mech. Eng. Educ., 21, No. 2, 109–122 (1993).
