Courses Taught
Course Description
This course is a building mechanical system design course. It is required for
Architectural Engineering students at the University of Oklahoma but is an elective course for
Mechanical Engineering students. The course was designed in Fall 2009 and was offered in Spring 2010. The course is designed to prepare students with the theory and design knowledge of building mechanical systems, which is necessary for human comfort or to create a specified indoor environment for production and/or research. Properties such as temperature, humidity, air purity, air distribution and noise in are discussed and appropriate ways of controlling them are presented.
My contribution
I offered this course as brand-new course in AME since Spring 2010 until present, once a year. Enrollment has gone from initial 10 students to currently close to 50 students.
Course Description
This is a graduate course. It is designed to prepare students with the analytical analysis skills to design energy efficient systems for buildings. The topics include building HVAC control principles and understanding of the control and mechanical elements (control valves, dampers, fans and coils) and methods of modeling them and their energy consumption for different types of systems. Further, methods for identifying optimal solutions to minimize energy consumption will be covered. At the end of the course, students will attain the skills to design energy efficient HVAC systems and will also gain an appreciation of the relative contribution of each component to the total building energy consumption.
My contribution
I offered this course as a brand-new course in AME since 2010 until present, once a year.
Course Description
It focuses on properties of pure substances, ideal gas behavior, first and second law analysis and application to energy conversion and power cycles.
My contribution
This course is a fundamental course in AME.
Course description
It focuses on development of student’s ability to apply his/her acquired knowledge to solve engineering problems and to design realistic systems, components and/or processes and the development of student’s ability to function in a team environment to gain organization and communication skills to understand professional and ethical responsibilities, to promote initiative, innovation and excellence and to foster life-long learning.
My contribution
This course is a senior design course in AME. I established a project management scheme and a brand-new rubric to quantitively evaluate student performance throughout the semester
