ME 525 Advanced Topics in Building Science
Indoor environmental quality and sustainable built environments. Material balance principles applied to fate and transport of pollutants in urban and indoor environments; approaches for quantifying and characterizing sources, transport, transformation, and control of indoor air pollutants; energy conservation and indoor air pollution; quantifying human exposures to air pollutants. Course includes assembly of building science sensors on Arduino platform, calibration, and collection and analysis of primary data. Familiarity with differential equations and intro-level chemistry and fluid mechanics is recommended.
Slash Listed Courses
Also offered for undergraduate-level credit as
ME 425 and may be taken only once for credit.