Courses

    Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours provided topics are different. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Engineering majors only.

    Supervised study of special topics of interest to students under instructor guidance. Department consent required.

    Supervised study of special topics of interest to students under instructor guidance. Department consent required.

    Offers a supervised study of special topics, under instructor guidance. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required.

    Offers an independent, in-depth study, research, or design in a selected area of architectural engineering. Offerings are coordinated with individual faculty. Students should consult the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering. Numbered AREN 4840 through AREN 4849.

    Involves an independent, in-depth study, research, or design in a selected area of civil or environmental engineering. Offerings are coordinated with individual faculty. Students should consult the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering. Numbered CVEN 4840 through CVEN 4878.

    Provides a simulated real world design and construction planning experience where teams integrate across multiple civil engineering sub-disciplines to create a solution that satisfies multiple constraints, including design, client requirements, budget, schedule, technical, regulatory, and societal. Final deliverables include: detailed design drawings, specifications, cost estimate, project schedule, construction plan, oral and written presentation. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) Civil Engineering (CVEN) majors only.
    Explores the fundamentals of simulating/analyzing civil and architectural environments with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. Run with two parallel sessions: fundamentals and applications, with fundamental lectures presenting the principles of CFD technologies, and application sessions demonstrating the application of CFD for resolving building and environmental engineering problems (different than MCEN/ASEN) with hands-on exercises. Same as AREN 5990. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of AREN 2120 and APPM 2360 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to College of Engineering majors,with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior).

    Devoted to building automation and control systems. HVAC control technology and strategies, measurement/device technologies, analysis/modeling of dynamic systems, simulation of conventional and advanced control approaches, assessment of control loop performance, hands-on direct digital control (DDC) programming exercises as used in current building control practice. Department enforced prereq., AREN 4140. Same as AREN 4010.

    Analyzes and measures performance of HVAC systems, envelopes, lighting and hot water systems, and modifications to reduce energy use. Emphasizes existing buildings. Department enforced prereq., AREN 3010 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Predicts performance and analyzes economics of high temperature, photovoltaic, and other innovative solar systems. Also includes performance prediction methods for solar processes. Department enforced prereq., AREN 2120 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Examines response factors, conduction transfer functions, and weighting factors for dynamic analysis of building envelopes. Also studies radiative and convective exchange in buildings, internal gains, and infiltration analysis as modeled in hourly simulations. Department enforced prereq., AREN 3010 or equivalent.

    Introduces major simulation programs for analysis of building energy loads and system performance. Focuses on one hourly simulation program to develop capability for analysis of multizone structure. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of AREN 4110 or CVEN 5110 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to graduate students only.

    Explores design of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for buildings. Covers HVAC systems description, load estimating, code compliance, duct design, fan systems, applied psychrometrics, cooling and heating coils, filters, hydronic systems, piping, and pumps. Department enforced prereq., AREN 3010 or equivalent. Same as AREN 4110.

    Introduces dynamic response of linear elastic single and multiple degree of freedom systems. Includes time and frequency domain analysis. Also analyzes building structures. Undergraduate students may contact the instructor for permission to be enrolled. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Covers the optical design process for illumination-based optics, emphasis on applications in architectural lighting. In-depth coverage of luminaire photometry, lamps, materials, manufacturing methods, product performance requirements. Projects utilize optical design software, and include a variety of lamp types including LEDs using both reflector/lens optics. Department enforced prereq., AREN 3540. Same as AREN 4130.

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