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associated with systems modeling for selecting passive strategies
Elective Courses and simulation using contemporary appropriate to local climate, site
simulation software ARENA. conditions and user needs. It will
also introduce simple methods for
ARC 620 - Efficient Building assessing the effectiveness of design
Systems decisions.
MEM 504 - Quality Engineering
Credit Hour: 3 ARC 635 - Professional
Credit Hour: 3 Prerequisite: Core Courses Responsibilities in Sustainable
Prerequisite: Core Courses Completion Environmental Design
Completion
This course investigates buildings Credit Hour: 3
This course covers statistical and their systems to satisfy the Prerequisite: Core Courses
approaches such as regression, requirements for a comfortable, Completion
design of experiment, non healthy, and productive indoor
parametric statistics, Taguchi environment. It will focus on the This course aims to expose graduate
method, etc… that are useful to influences of energy, human comfort, students to the importance of
Quality Engineering. It also covers climate, context, heating, cooling and understanding the history of the
process and product quality; quality water on the design of buildings and notion of sustainable development
assurance and standards (Six- sites. The design of environmental and design in order to assess the
Sigma, Lean Engineering, ISO9000); systems with continued emphasis importance of concept and policies
quality planning; quality control; on day lighting, acoustics and design attached to it. This course aims
measurement and metrics, sampling strategies for sustainability, and also at helping students to have
and quality audit, as well as process issues of green construction relating a careful overview of both large
improvement. The project and to energy in buildings. Students and small scales, in understanding
assignments are key components will use their individual building environmental issues as well as
of this course. These include quality evaluations to develop a small area societal and economic imperatives.
systems design and management, climate action plan as part of team The overarching goal is to
application of effective design for assignment. This course explores illustrate that it is the professional
quality management standards, the principles behind current low responsibility of architects to act
tools and techniques in real world energy solutions, and deals with as informed decision-makers
organization. Ethical issues related basic application information and and provide planning and
to sampling and quality audit and strategies. Students will have an design solutions to a number of
process will be emphasized. opportunity to extend their use of environmental concerns. The course
environmental design software. The rely on debate around notion of
MEM 506 - Operations Research course is designed to complement sustainable development, in different
and Simulations information provided in other geographical contexts, in order to
Credit Hour: 3 courses build on cases studies and theoretical
Prerequisite: Core Courses ARC 630 - Passive Design approaches. Students will understand
the need of continuously assimilate
Completion Strategies information from various scientific
This course covers computer Credit Hour: 3 disciplines in their professional
simulation concepts and operations Prerequisite: Core Courses development
research modeling techniques, Completion
including problem formulation and
discrete event simulation modeling. In this course students will learn how
It include the formulation of to arrange and integrate the form,
mathematical models, solutions using fabric and systems of a building to
linear programming, sensitivity and maximize the benefits of ambient
cost analysis of developing alternative sources and sinks of energy for
optimum solutions, transportation heating, lighting, ventilation and
and network analysis, forecasting cooling in order to achieve higher
and stochastic modeling. The course levels of human comfort and reduce
includes case studies related to the consumption of conventional
the topic and a term project. It also fuels and the emission of greenhouse
applies the concepts and principles gases. It will demonstrate techniques

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