10 courses with the subject AE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
AE 220Introduction to HVAC3.5
This course includes a review of thermodynamics, moist air properties and processes, basic heat transfer, solar radiation, heating and cooling losses and load calculation, types of air conditioning systems, infiltration and ventilation, air motion and distribution.
AE 340Architectural Illumination and Electrical Systems3.0
This course covers building electrical systems, including power demand, distribution and control; building illumination techniques, including lighting demand, layout and energy analysis.
This course leads students through the comprehensive building design process. Using a prototype of a moderately sized building, students work in teams to develop the building’s program, meet architectural goals, and organize and design components of the structural system. Working for a fictitious client, the teams are faced with unique challenges which will need to be addressed through a whole-building design approach. The teams present their design solutions with a thorough Design Development narrative, professional diagrams, and a verbal presentation to a panel of industry professionals.
In this course, students will design the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for a mid-sized building located in different climate zones in the United States. The students integrate their design project from the previous term, continuing the work they began in AE390, through a whole-building design approach. The class is organized as a team-based project-based learning pedagogy in which teams present their design solutions with a thorough Design Development narrative, professional diagrams, and a verbal presentation to the class and a jury of experts.
An overview of the present and future role of Information Technology in the construction industry with emphasis on the computer tools used throughout the building life cycle by all stakeholders, primarily Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the role of networked-linked sensors and actuators.
This course introduces basic control concepts with applications to HVAC systems; direct digital control, control loops; system modeling; transfer functions; selecting and locating sensors and actuators; design and tuning control algorithms; design and programming of HVAC control systems.
This is a real-time Global Classroom that meets simultaneously in Philadelphia and Milan, Italy. The Responsive Urban Environment (RUE)looks at the city through the lens of ecosystem management. RUE considers the city as a complex network of interrelated systems that rely on each other to maintain system balance. RUE helps students understand the close relationship between the engineering design choices that take place at the scale of the building and neighborhood to the environmental impacts that occur at the wider scale of the urban level.
This course introduces bio-informed sciences into engineering design to help students develop engineering strategies for the built environment to promote human health and wellbeing. Topics covered include neuroscience, photobiology, biomimicry, biophilia, and chronobiology.
Science and engineering fundamentals in analysis and design of building envelopes and wall systems. Architectural, structural, and environmental (thermal and moisture) concerns; features of selected cladding systems; air and moisture leakage, thermal deficiency, structural distress and premature deterioration; building envelop construction, condition evaluation, maintenance and retrofit.
AE 455Data Acquisition and Analytics in Built Environment3.0
Introduce concepts on data acquisition, data storage, and data analytics in the context of the built environment. Students will be learning sensor technology and database design and operation in buildings, as well as novel concepts of leveraging data science for engineering challenges.
