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
• Analyze 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