Lecture that meets 2 times per week for 75 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks
Specific course information
Catalog description: Engineering fundamentals required for the design and analysis of buildings and their systems, such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, light and sound transmission
Prerequisites: CCE21100 Thermal/Energy Science for CE, Minimum Grade of C- [may be taken concurrently] or ME 20000 Thermodynamics
Course status: Technical selective course
Specific goals for the course
Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
Apply the fundamentals of thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, photometric quantities, and sound transmission to the analysis of the building components.
Identify, formulate, and solve system level problems related to building enclosure, air conditioning processes, building plumbing systems, and ventilation.
Demonstrate an understanding of the building integration to achieve energy efficiency and healthy built environment, as well as the effective communication and presentation skills.
Relationship of course to program outcomes
Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Topics
Introduction (1.5 weeks)
Building environmental loads, building environmental systems, and green building design
Thermodynamics fundamentals for buildings (4 weeks)
Properties of ideal gas, gas-vapor mixtures, and air
Psychrometrics
Principles of the conservation of mass and energy to various air conditioning processes
Fluid mechanics fundamentals for buildings (0.5 week)
Fluid properties
Fluid flow through pipes or ducts and over flat plates
Fluid friction, Moody diagram, pressure drop and head loss calculation
Heat transfer fundamentals for buildings (4 weeks)
Thermal resistance and thermal boundary layer
Thermal conductivity and steady state heat conduction in plane walls
Forced convection over flat plates and inside pipes
Natural convection over surfaces, inside enclosures
Electromagnetic spectrum and thermal radiation, blackbody radiation, radiative properties of materials, view factors, radiation heat transfer
Mass transfer fundamentals for buildings (1 week)
Diffusion mass transport, mass diffusivity
Hygrothermal analysis of buildings (1 week)
Heat flow and thermal gradients in simple wall assemblies
Vapor permeance, one-dimensional steady state vapor flow in wall assemblies, interstitial condensation (occurrence and quantity), and moisture control
Building heating and cooling load (1.5 weeks)
Building envelope
Load calculation and simulation
Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems (0.5 week)
HVAC system types and components
Calculation methods for simple variable-air-volume systems
Building illumination (0.5 week)
Physics of light and photometric quantities
Electric lighting calculation methods
Building acoustics (0.5 weeks)
Physics of sound and sound transmission class of wall assemblies
Noise criteria, room acoustics, and sound isolation and control
Calculation methods for sound absorption and transmission in buildings
