AREN 4317 Architectural Engineering Design
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Professor Brandemuehl is the instructor of record for this course.  He will be assisted by faculty within  the department and practicing engineers from the Boulder/Denver area.  These faculty members and practitioners will make presentations on material from their discipline.  They will consult, evaluate and grade work in their discipline submitted by students.  The final grade for the course will be issued by the instructor of record based on their input.

The course will be delivered through both lectures and individual consultation. Lectures for the course are concentrated early in the semester. These lectures will include review of design methodologies, recommended approaches, and expectations for your deliverables. There will also be a series of invited lectures on design-related topics throughout the semester.

Much of the scheduled class time will be used for consultation with faculty and practitioners. In general, faculty consultants will post sign-up sheets outside their offices for teams to schedule consultations. In addition, each team will meet with the instructor weekly.

There will be three presentations during the semester with varying levels of formality. The first presentation will describe the program plan for your building and will outline the basic building requirements. The presentation is expected to highlight the architecture of the building and is typically a PowerPoint presentation. The second and most substantial presentation, also typically delivered with PowerPoint, will describe the schematic design of the building and its engineering systems. The third presentation will be a working presentation of design development drawings and calculations to the consultants in the various disciplines. There will be no final presentation of your designs – only the final submittal.

Teams

All work performed in this course will be done in three or four-person teams.  While your input will be considered in the team selection, the instructor will ultimately assign the composition of teams.  Based on the information provided in the attached survey, teams will be assembled on the basis of their interest and background.  Each member will have lead responsibility for one of the disciplines that are the focus of this course. However, it is expected that all team members will participate in all three areas of design.

Deliverables

The work and subsequent deliverables for this course will follow the stages of industry practice:  Conceptual Design, Schematic Design, Design Development, and Construction Documents.  All submittals will be electronic as portable document format (PDF) files. Submittals will typically involve records of computations, descriptive reports, and drawings.  Computations will vary from engineering estimates using rules of thumb to results of elaborate computer-based simulations.  Reports will usually be brief, and clarity, completeness, and concision will be required.  Drawings will vary from annotated sketches to professionally executed CAD drawings fully labeled, dimensioned, and annotated.  The final submissions that document each stage of the design process will be expected to possess a unity of presentation style, be well organized for easy navigation, and be accompanied by a letter of transmittal. Late submissions will not be accepted.

General Information

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Instructor: Michael J. Brandemuehl, PhD, PE
Phone: 303.492.8594
Fax: 303.492.7317
University of Colorado at Boulder
Civil Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
428 UCB, Room ECOT 441
Boulder, CO 80309-0428