CE3842 Syllabus -- Fall 2014 Page 6
CE 3842
Fundamentals of Building Systems, Fall 2015
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65409
Class hours: Tu/Th 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Classroom: Engineering Management 103
Class website: https://blackboard.mst.edu
Prerequisites: Physics 2135, Math 2222, and Junior Standing.
Instructor
Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Greenway, Ph.D.
IDE Interdisciplinary Engineering, Room G6H
(573) 341-6041
Office Hours: Tu, Th 9:00 – 10:30
Course Description
Architectural building systems represent a significant portion of the building energy consumption and the average buildings utility costs each year. Also, a large percentage of building construction cost is being devoted to the building environmental control systems, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, lighting systems, and others. As energy costs and climate change concerns are rising, energy efficient integration of building systems and integrated design (viewing building systems as interrelated instead of separate) are financially prudent and increasingly expected. Therefore, it is important to understand theory and applications of building energy use, heating and cooling systems, envelope design, electrical lighting and daylighting systems, building water supply, plumbing and drainage systems, electrical, acoustical, transportation systems, and other systems necessary for building utilization.
By the conclusion of this course, I hope that this course will have interested and excited you by its richness of building systems, and its many opportunities for creativity and expression. There is a whole lot more than technical calculation and data. All the engineers, the designers and the users of buildings can enjoy appropriate and innovative integration of building systems.
Learning Outcomes / Expected Performance Criteria
1) Describe the role of building environmental systems in building planning and design;
2) Research and critically analyze claims about building systems made by salespeople, subcontractors, and building designers;
3) Learn to calculate building heating, ventilating, and air conditioning loads and specify HVAC equipment for small and large buildings;
4) Understand architectural lighting and acoustic fundamentals and demonstrate knowledge of principles in building lighting design and noise control;
5) Develop an understanding of different types of building systems including electrical, plumbing, drainage, water supply, transportation, and other systems necessary for building utilization;
6) Raise awareness of sustainable building technologies and become familiar with the need to integrate them into the building design process.
Text
W. Grondzik and A. Kwok, 2012. Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 12th Edition, ISBN 978-1-118-61590-4
Teaching Methods
The class will be conducted as a lecture and will mix in-class presentations for individual or group assignments. Copies of the lecture notes and all material covered in class will be posted at /Information folder of Blackboard CE 3842. The course will mainly cover three parts: 1) design context and building energy intro, 2) thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, and 3) other building systems and sustainable integration. This course will be involved in some group assignments, presentations, physical and digital model analysis, and a building “energy efficiency game”. This class will also use real-world experience as vehicle for exercises and discussion during the semester. The selected real-world cases may be a campus building, a house, a room, building / environmental systems, envelope assemblies, etc. Some investigations and measurements will be assigned to help students to study the real use of the environmental technologies and the ways to evaluate and analyze.
Helpful hints for doing well in this class
1) Attend the lectures. Keep your notes in well-organized notebook. Electronic PDF-version copies of the class notes will be posted on the class folder for purposes of distribution. You will need to use it to study and during the exams. Try not to fall behind.
2) Ask questions in class. Make sure that you have copies of the solutions to the homework problems and that you understand how to solve them. The midterm exam and the final will primarily draw on these problems (but some conditions or variables will be changed) and the lecture notes.
3) Drop-by during office hours and ask questions, email, and drop-by during other hours. I will be using email to communicate to the class, so students in the class are required to obtain an email account and to use it.
4) Do the homework. You are allowed to work in groups to obtain a better understanding of the homework. However, you are expected to turn-in your own homework that you have done. Your performance on the tests will be based solely on what you know and therefore it is good idea.
Attendance
Three unexcused absences from lectures combined will result in drop of one letter grade for each violation. Do not use computers and smart phones during class. The usage will be only accepted if the instructor discusses some apps related to the class contents.
Homework
Homework is due at the beginning of class. Any late homework will result in a 20% grade reduction. It will be returned and discussed in class with solutions passed out. Any homework submission after the posted solutions will not be accepted. Each homework and its solution will be posted at /Assignment folder of Blackboard. Certain assignments may be turned in at /Assignment folder as well.
Periodically, there will be extra credit problems assigned. These challenging problems are designed to help those students who feel that there is a need to improve their grades by performing some extra work.
Team Presentations
Teams of 3 or 2 persons shall present a chapter of the instructors choosing. Presentation status shall be reviewed in class periodically
Exams
There will be three exams (Exam I, Exam II, and Final) that cover the material indicated. No make-up exams will be given for unexcused absences. The take-home portion of the exams will be open-book, open-note. There may also be a short closed-book portion in-class.
There will be a comprehensive final given on the day assigned to this class by the registrar that will cover all the material presented in this class. The final will be open-book and open-note. Laptops and/or any digital devices that are capable of sending/receiving electronic messages are not allowed.
Grading System
90 - 100% A excellent performance on all work.
80 - 89% B good performance on all work, excellent performance on portions of the work during the semester.
70 - 79% C satisfactory completion of all work, good performance on some work.
60 - 69% D a passing effort however score is below average for the class.
0 - 59% F unsatisfactory performance, not a passing grade
The overall semester course grade will be based upon a cumulative tabulation of the various individual performance items described above, weighted as per the following schedule:
8 Homework Assignments / 40%Team Presentations / 10%
Exam I / 15%
Exam II / 15%
Final Exam / 20%
Total / 100%
Course Topics
Part I / The Building Design Context1 / Design Process
2 / Environmental Resources
3 / Sites and Resources
Part II / Design Fundamentals
4 / Thermal Comfort
5 / Indoor Air Quality
6 / Solar Geometry and Shading Devices
7 / Heat Flow
Part III / Passive Environmental Systems
8 / Daylighting
9 / Passive Heating
10 / Passive Cooling
11 / Integrating Passive Systems
Part IV / Active Environmental Systems
12 / Active Climate Control.
13 / Lighting Fundamentals.
14 / Electric Light Sources
15 / Lighting Design Process
16 / Electric Lighting Design
17 / Electric Design Applications
18 / Water and Basic Design
19 / Water Supply
20 / Liquid Waste
21 / Solid Waste
Part V / Acoustics
22 / Fundamentals of Architectural Acoustics
23 / Sound in Enclosed Spaces
24 / Building Noise Control
Part VI / Fire Protection
25 / Fire Protection
Part VII / Electricity
26 / Principals of Electricity
27 / Electrical Systems and Materials:
Service and Utilization
28 / Electrical Systems and Materials:
Wiring and Raceways
29 / Electric Wiring Design
30 / Photovoltaic Systems
Part VIII / Signal Systems
31 / Signal Systems
Part IX / Transportation
32 / Vertical Transportation:
Passenger Elevators
33 / Vertical Transportation:
Special Topics
34 / Moving Stairways and Walks
Part X / Appendices
Important Note
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The handouts in this class contain material that has been photocopied with permission from the publisher and are therefore copyright. “Handouts” includes all material generated for this class, which includes, but is not limited to: syllabi, quizzes, exams, in-class notes and handouts and assignments. Therefore, the copyright material in this class should not be copied without prior permission from the instructor.
Student Honor Code and Academic Integrity: Please take a few minutes to stress the importance of academic integrity in class. Discuss why it should matter to the student, why it matters to you and your discipline, why it matters to Missouri S&T, and why it matters to future employers. Include a statement on your syllabus about the Honor Code developed and endorsed by the Missouri S&T Student Council: the Honor Code can be found at this link:
http://stuco.mst.edu/about/honor-code. Encourage students to read and reflect upon the Honor code and its emphasis on HONESTY and RESPECT.
Page 30 of the Student Academic Regulations handbook describes the student standard of conduct relative to the University of Missouri System's Collected Rules and Regulations section 200.010, and offers descriptions of academic dishonesty including cheating, plagiarism or sabotage (http://registrar.mst.edu/academicregs/index.html). Additional guidance for faculty, including the University’s Academic Dishonesty Procedures, is available on-line at http://ugs.mst.edu. Other informational resources for students regarding ethics and integrity can be found online at
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