Architectural Engineering (AREN)

Description: Intended specifically for the 1-year UNL Master of Architectural Engineering (MAE) program to prepare for the MAE Graduate Project and the MAE Interdisciplinary Team Design sequences. Focus on further developing competencies within the UNL College of Engineering's Complete Engineer framework including self-management and leadership, teamwork, communication skills, inclusive excellence, professionalism and ethics, and civic responsibility.

Description: This is the first of the Graduate Individual Mastery Project two-course sequence, which requires a self-directed project that results in a professionally written report and oral presentation. Successful completion of this sequence will demonstrate a high-level of written and oral communication skills and show individual student mastery of a topic related to architectural engineering.

Description: This is the second of the Graduate Individual Mastery Project two-course sequence, which requires a self-directed project that results in a professionally written report and oral presentation. Successful completion of this sequence will demonstrate a high-level of written and oral communication skills and show individual student mastery of a topic related to architectural engineering.

Description: Develop and design the electrical, lighting, mechanical, and structural systems for a building, from programming through design development phase, as an interdisciplinary team effort.

Description: Develop and design the electrical/lighting, mechanical/acoustical, and structural systems for a building, through the design development phase, as an interdisciplinary team effort.

Description: This course requires participation in a full time summer internship associated with an Architectural Engineering related entity. The course includes weekly assignments and a final presentation designed to create interaction between the AE entity and the intern associated with the business side of the entity. General Topics include Business Plans, Marketing, Finance and Budgets, Contracts, Legal issues and professionalism.

Description: Investigation of issues related to the integration of building design processes with professional architectural engineering practice. Aspects of building design project finance, budgets, contracts, legal issues, professional licensure and professional responsibility. The perspective of life-cycle costing. Professional ethics will be thoroughly integrated with all course topics.

Description: Building design specifications, estimating, bidding, building construction contract negotiations, building design project management, project team personnel management, project risk, and key regulatory measures.

Description: Overview of advanced experimental design methods and statistical analysis techniques. Application of these to the planning, execution, analysis, and description of research in architectural engineering.

Description: Integrates building design with the principles of minimum resource use, energy conservation and healthy indoor environments.

Description: Fundamentals of solar energy system modeling analysis and design. Solar radiation modeling, surface properties of opaque and glazing materials, flat-plate collector design, solar energy storage, solar system thermal calculation, system application and design.

Description: Indoor air quality. Codes, standards, HVAC equipment, commissioning, operation, maintenance, investigation, and remediation.

Description: Fundamental concepts of building control theory and automation. Building control: state-variable plant and closed-loop system representation, time and frequency response, stability, root-locus methods and design of building control systems. Automation: thermostats, dampers, valves, direct digital control, control of air handling units, terminal units, primary building systems, supervisory control and system optimization, communication systems, BACnet, and DDC system design and implementation.

Description: Advanced Analysis, Modeling, Diagnostics and Optimization of Building Energy Systems. Be familiar with Engineering Equation Solver (EES) Programming; Be able to build models for Air Handling Unit Systems and Vapor Comporession Cycle Equipment; Be able to analyze building operating efficiency and identify faulty operating conditions; Be able to conduct retrofit energy efficiency analysis and feasibility study.

Description: Integrated approach to deliver energy improvement retrofit projects that provide economical and ecological benefits. Proficiency in EnergyPlus or DOE-2 and in retrofit cost estimation will be attained and integrated into an engineering economic analysis. Partnering configurations, contracts, financing, and measurement and verification. Concepts applied to a practical class project.

Description: Analysis, theory, and methods of instrumentation for thermal system energy consumption measurement and scientific research testing. Emphasis on sensors, traducers, and error analysis.

Description: Fundamentals of project management within the mechanical and electrical contracting industry. Emphasis on codes, contract documents, productivity, coordination, project control and administration, scheduling, safety, and project closeout, all from a speciality contracting perspective.

Description: Design and analysis of lighting systems; the integration between the lighting design process and the technical foundations for building lighting; design criteria; lighting design procedures lighting modes and subjective effects; and calculation tools.

Description: Design and analysis of lighting for outdoor sports, floodlighting and interior applications; economic analysis; modeling algorithms; advanced photometrics.

Description: Power systems analysis and design, integration of electrical system components into functional, safe and reliable power distribution systems for commercial and industrial facilities. Per unit analysis, fault analysis, power quality, grounding, overcurrent protection coordination and complete power system design.

Description: Fundamental science and principles of light generation in modern electric light sources; characteristics that influence applications of light sources.

Description: Critical survey and application of measures developed to characterize the effects of lighting systems on human perception and performance. Contrast, visibility, visual performance (Relative Visual Performance, Visibility Level); visual comfort probability; discomfort glare rating system; and unified glare rating system.

Description: Use of natural light in building design. Solar position, sky luminance, distribution models, daylighting equipment, calculation methods, and psychological concepts. Extensive use of computer modeling and scale models.

Description: Integration of voice, data and video systems into overall building design. Scalability; wireless systems; interference; project management; current industry standards and protocols.

Description: Introduction to integration of renewable energy sources in the electric grid and built environment. Study of various renewable energy sources with a focus on photovoltaic (PV) systems detailing theory of operation, design methodologies, system components, NEC requirements and simulation software for stand-alone, utility-interactive and multi-mode systems.

Description: Characterization of acoustic sources; use and measurement of sound power and intensity; sound-structure interaction; acoustic enclosures and barriers; muffling devices; vibration control; and active noise control.

Description: Advanced study of the behavior of sound in rooms. Design of acoustical spaces; physical and computational modeling; measurement techniques; and introduction to sound reinforcement in rooms.

Description: Electrical-mechanical-acoustical circuit analogies; transducers, loudspeakers, microphones, and accelerometers; directivity; calibration techniques; and sound reinforcement systems in rooms.

Description: Building energy and acoustical systems: energy systems, including psychometric processes and applications; load calculations; distribution systems; acoustic fundamentals; room acoustics; and noise control.

Description: Introduction to the design and construction of healthcare facilities. Healthcare regulations and standards, infection control, interim life safety measures, code requirements, medical equipment selection and coordination, healthcare design and construction techniques, and best practices will be addressed. Provides guidance in preparation for the Certified Healthcare Constructor credential offered by the American Healthcare Association.

Description: Masonry as a structural material, Unreinforced Masonry Design, Reinforced Masonry Design, State-of-the-art Assessment methods for Existing Masonry Structures, Timber as a structural material, Timber Design.

Description: Principles of modeling, interfacing and signal conditioning of sample building sensors, and acquisition of sensor data utilizing an engineering programming language such as LabVIEW and analysis of data from different types of building sensors. Overview of current sensing technology and control in buildings.

Description: Study of the dynamics of Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) beam-structures. Modeling principles and data analysis from different types of MEMS will be explained along with deep theoretical and experimental investigation of nonlinear MEMS dynamics. Learn to conduct experiments using state-of-the-art MEMS characterization tools.

Description: The objectives of this course are to broaden student knowledge on engineering topics, improve presentation and professional skills, as well as learn about professional development resources available on campus. To pass the course, a student must attend a minimum of 15 Durham School Graduate Student Seminars, MAE project presentations, and/or MS/PhD thesis presentations in the College of Engineering. The student must also present one seminar within the Durham School Graduate Student Seminar series, prior to the final oral examination. All MS and PhD graduate students in architectural engineering must enroll within their first 3 semesters of matriculation.

Description: Individual instruction in Architectural Engineering at the graduate level in a selected area, under the supervision and guidance of an Architectural Engineering faculty member.

Description: Concepts and implementation of dynamic programming for building optimal and adaptive control. Deterministic shortest-path applications and continuous-time optimal control, inventory control, perfect and imperfect state information, suboptimal and adaptive control, discounted infinite horizon and stochastic shortest-path problems including Q-Learning.

Description: Neuro-dynamic programming/reinforcement learning methodology, fuzzy logic methods, and evolutionary/genetic algorithms (GA) to building control problems. Concepts applied to case studies from problem areas.

Description: Modeling, control, and optimization of the secondary building energy systems: building envelope, room comfort zones, air handling units, cooling and heating water loops.

Description: Modeling, control, and optimization of the primary building energy systems: central distribution systems, chiller systems, boiler systems, central coding plants, central heating plants, and thermal storage systems.

Description: Application of computational fluid dynamics software to modeling of indoor environments. Turbulence modeling, boundary conditions, natural and forced convection flows, species transport, and fire modeling.

Description: Theories of color vision; theoretical and mathematical basis for chromaticity, color temperature, color rendering metrics, color matching functions, and color spaces; spectral weighing functions; and measurement of color.

Description: Current topics in architectural acoustics. Objective versus subjective measures in performance spaces, electronic enhancement of rooms, advanced computational modeling techniques, and auralization.

Description: Supervised non-thesis research and independent study.

Description: Advanced topics in architectural engineering.