AE 3301 - Principles of Building Mechanical Systems

• Classify and describe a complete air-conditioning and distribution system with its central equipment.
• Compute and determine the psychrometric properties of moist air.
• Snalyze the physiological considerations for human comfort in buildings, and calculate its related indices.
• Classify and estimate the indoor air contaminants, and use methods to control them.
• Explain the three modes of heat transfer, and calculate their rates in specific applications.
• Define outdoor and indoor design conditions, and calculate heat losses.
• Calculate Infiltration rates through different components of the building envelop.
• Calculate heating energy use of different heating application.
• Apply the principles of fire chemistry to the effects fires have had on buildings and human life.
• Discuss the principles of smoke, heat and flame detection and methods of signaling warning alarms to building occupants.
• Relate architectural and engineering building design elements and materials of construction to fire suppression systems for buildings.
• Cite design principles for fire suppression systems.
• Apply fluid mechanics design methods to calculate fire suppression component size, based on Hazen-Williams formulation and other general energy theories, when given proposed piping layouts.
• Explain architectural and engineering design requirements of plumbing systems for buildings.
• Apply design principles for plumbing based on the importance of the health, safety and welfare of people using buildings and based on how people use plumbing systems.
• Relate water quality and treatments to improve water quality.
• Apply fluid mechanics design methods, based on Darcy-Weisbach, Manning, and Hazen-Williams formulations and other general energy theories and probability and statistical data, to calculate plumbing design problems based on example piping layouts.

• Introduction to fluid mechanics
• Fluid properties
• Continuity and energy equations
• Internal flow
• Major and minor losses
• Principles of fans and pumps

• Introduction, general idea of air-conditioning and distribution systems
• Psychrometrics
• Human Comfort
• Heat Transfer
• Heating Load
• Infiltration
• Introduction to Fire Protection Systems
• System Design Approaches
• Introduction to Plumbing
• Design Considerations for Water Distribution Systems