University of Mashhad, Iran. She is currently a PhD student in the School of Engineering at The University of Oklahoma. Her passion for engineering education stems from her basic curiosity to develop more effective engineering curriculum to help students to meet their professional demands. This motivated her to take part in engineering education research.

An Arrhenius relationship is employed to develop a model for prediction of gas permeation in the polymeric materials. A permeation cell was designed to measure the gas permeation. The permeation of Helium was examined over a range of low to high temperature and pressure conditions. The results of the experiments were used to verify the accuracy of the prediction model. The obtained model was successful in predicting gas permeation rate at two different pressures. The results showed that pressure’s effect is insignificant on models. The predicted results for different pressure were close, and both models can be used to obtain an approximation for gas permeation rate for the examined material where no experimental data exists.

A new experimental set-up has been built to characterize the permeation of polymeric materials. The permeation of Helium through the variety of polymers under different pressure and temperature conditions was investigated. In this study, the gas permeation measurement has been performed by a high temp/high pressure gas permeation cell. Constant volume (variable pressure) procedure was considered to design this gas permeation cell. In designing the permeation cell, special consideration has been made to build a permeation cell appropriate for testing polymer samples in high pressure (up to 1200 psi) and high temperature (up to 100 °C) conditions. The permeation cell consists of two gas chambers; the high pressure side and the low pressure side. A modular plugin has been designed to place inside the gas chambers, and make the design adjustable for testing polymers with different thicknesses. Pressure change in the lower side of the set-up was measured by sensitive pressure transducer. Downstream pressure side will be used in the calculation of gas flux and gas permeation coefficient of polymers, along with differential pressure applied to polymer sample and test conditions as temperature. The results of permeability measurements for thick polymer samples at different pressure and temperature showed that the effects of increasing temperature on gas permeation are prominent compared to effect of high pressure condition.