Class Schedule Lecture Notes Assignments Exam Preparation HVAC Employment	ME 425, Spring 2008 HVAC Engineering
	Meeting Time: MTWF 8:30 - 9:20 am Location: MEB 103     Instructor: Keith Elder Office: MEB 223 Office Hours: 7:30 - 8:20 MTWF e-mail: elderk@u.washington.edu
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	Course Description The focus of the course is application of the engineering skills students have already learned in their core classes to the design of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning systems. HVAC design requires some understanding of thermodynamics, fluids, heat transfer, and systems dynamics. Breadth, not depth, is the emphasis; as students learn to apply this knowledge to the design challenges of environmental control. Grading Policy Exams 40% Homework 15% Design Project 40% Attendance 5%   Late assignments not accepted without prior arrangement  Required Reading The course text will be the 2005 ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals, available both as text and searchable CD.  A substantial discount is available by joining the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers as a student member.  Membership & Handbook arrangements will be made in class.   The following chapters will be covered, some in more detail than others:   6  - Psychrometrics 8  - Thermal Comfort 25 - Thermal and Water Vapor Transmission Data 27 - Ventilation and Infiltration 28 - Climatic Design Information 29 - Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculation 30 - Non-Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculation 31 - Fenestration 33 - Space Air Diffusion 35 - Duct Design 36 - Pipe Sizing   Supplemental reading material will be provided for topics not given coverage by the text.
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