User:Tjm33-NJITWILL

Hello all, I have an Associates degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey (USA) and I am currently working on my Bachelors degree also in Mechanical Engineering Technology at the New Jersey institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey (USA) and I expect to receive my degree in December of 2012.

I have written a formal proposal to my Technical Writing Professor at NJIT requesting permission to perform a few revisions to the Wikipedia article on "Rotameters." I think this page is in need of an update due to the lack of references, not necessarily due to outdated information. I think I am qualified to make a supported expert revision to this page.

Although I do not have any career experience using rotameters, I did use one experimentally in a fluid mechanics lab to measure the volume flow rate of fluid through a system. Having to write a lab report for that fluid mechanics class is what sparked my research on rotameters. A similar lab is used throughout education for mechanical engineering and mechanical engineering technology in America, and possibly in other nations around the world. When a student does not have knowledge on a subject, these days the first place many look to acquire this information is the internet. If an article exists on the subject searched, Wikipedia is one of the first hits generated by search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. For this reason and others, I think it would benefit the future readers of this article to add reliable information backed by reputable sources.

I would like to add the following: • a more descriptive, detailed definition written from a slightly higher educational perspective. • list of why rotameters are usually more popular than other variable area flow meters. • a colorful, more detailed graphic that depicts the inner forces more clearly for the student perspective. • add another advantage and possibly another disadvantage to the existing list. • a formula for rotameter calibration that I found on a professional website

Considering my educational background and my extensive research on the subject, I can make supported expert revisions that will benefit the Wikipedia community, as well as students and other visitors of the site, all over the world.