Course: Building Energy Systems

	CVEN 5380 Building Energy Systems

	Course Schedule

Date	Lectures	Notes	Slides	HW Due	HW Sol
8/29	Introduction, energy use in buildings
8/31	Economic analysis and LEED	Notes	Slides
9/5	Psychrometrics for comfort	Notes	Slides
9/7	Psychrometrics for heating and cooling			HW	Sol
9/12	Thermal comfort models	Notes	Slides
9/14	Solar energy	Notes		HW	Sol
9/19	Solar shading
9/21	Building thermal analysis	Notes (1.8 MB)	Slides	HW	Sol
9/26	Energy-10 tutorial
9/28	Design heating loads	Notes
10/3	Transient heat transfer in buildings	Notes		HW	Sol
10/5	Design cooling loads
10/10	Heating and cooling load applications			HW	Sol
10/12	Basic heating and cooling equipment
10/17	Low-energy heating and cooling			HW	Sol
10/19	Electrical circuits fundamentals
10/24	Three phase power in buildings	Notes		Exam
10/26	Building electrical distribution			HW	Sol
10/31	Motors	Notes
11/2	Light and power			HW	Sol
11/7	Terms and fundamental relationships
11/9	Fundamental calculations	Notes		HW	Sol
11/14	Basic radiative transfer
11/16	Luminaires			HW	Sol
11/28	Radiative transfer, part 2	Notes
11/30	Lighting design	Notes		HW Data (2.7 MB)	Sol
12/5	Lighting design, Lumen Method
12/7	Light sources
12/12	Vision and Colorimetry
12/14	Introduction to codes and standards			Project

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Instructor: Michael J. Brandemuehl, PhD, PE
Phone: 303.492.8594
Fax: 303.492.7317