Courses

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world
– Nelson Mandela

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Course	Building Environmental Systems	HVAC Design	Sustainable Building Design	Smart Buildings and Cities
Nr	ARE 346N	ARE 346P	CE 397	CE 397
Level	Undergraduate	Undergraduate/Graduate	Graduate	Graduate
Short Content	Thermal Comfort Heating & Cooling Loads Psychrometrics Electrical Circuits	Psychrometric Processes Refrigeration Cycles Heat Exchangers Duct Design	Thermal Comfort Passive Building Design Renewable Energy Integration Advanced HVAC Systems	Data Analytics Machine Learning Theory & Practice Bring Your Own Data
Offered	Fall	Fall	Spring (bi-annual)	Spring (bi-annual)
Taught in	Fa17	Fa16,17,18	Sp18	Sp17, Fa18

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HVAC Design (ARE346P | CE389H)

Fundamentals of design of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning systems

Goals:

1. Apply fundamental physical principles to HVAC design
2. Describe and size each component in an HVAC system
3. Design HVAC systems based on manufacturer’s datasheets
4. Contrast residential systems with commercial systems and use appropriate design
   techniques for each type of system
5. Solve HVAC design problems with high-quality references

Course material supply and course communication is via canvas.

Taught in: Fall 2016, Fall 2017

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Building Environment Systems (ARE 346N)

Analysis and design of building air conditioning systems; heating and cooling load calculations; air side systems analysis; air distribution; building electrical requirements; electrical and lighting systems.

Goals:

1. Describe the role of building environmental systems in building planning and design
2. Research and critically analyze claims about building environmental systems made by salespeople, subcontractors, and building designers.
3. Calculate building heating, ventilating, and air conditioning loads and specify HVAC equipment for residential and light commercial construction.
4. Acquire design requirements for building electrical systems and design basic systems
5.  List characteristics of different lamps, describe building lighting designs and their consequences and demonstrate knowledge of lighting design principles.

Course material supply and course communication is via canvas.

Taught in: Fall 2017

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Sustainable Building Design (CE 397)

This graduate course will explore sustainable building design from 4 perspectives

• Human: Thermal comfort
• Architectural: Passive solar design
• Energy: Renewable energy integration
• Technology: Radiant Heating & Cooling

Approximately half of the course will be lectures, and short homework problems. The other half will be a design project, together with a similar course in the School of Architecture.

Course material and communication is via canvas.

Taught in: Spring 2018

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Smart Buildings and Cities (CE 397)

This graduate course will focus on the use of data of buildings and cities for the design of a sustainable built environment.

Goal: Introduce students to machine learning algorithms as they apply to analyze data, e.g. energy consumption, on buildings and cities. In addition to the theoretical introduction, students will gain practical knowledge on the advantages and disadvantages of the different algorithms as well as their applicability.

Approximately 2/3 of the course will be lectures, in-class programming as well as homework problems using Matlab. The final 1/3 part will be an application project. Participants are encouraged to bring data from their own area of study for further analysis.

Course material supply and course communication is via canvas.

Taught in: Spring 2017