ENERGY DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS, AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL HEATING VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING COURSE

摘要

This paper describes a Mechanical Engineering Senior Undergraduate and/or early Graduate level course in sustainable building mechanical systems. This course can be an alternative to the traditional HVAC course and a part of energy concentration for undergraduate and/or graduate Mechanical Engineering. The course runs for a semester involving fourteen weeks of lecture - at most three hours of lecture per week. The course is primarily for Mechanical Engineering students. It is however, encouraged to be taken by Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering majors. A good part of the course is a group semester-long project. Attempt is made to form multidisciplinary groups involving Mechanical and other Engineering majors.