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building exteriors and interiors and ARC 583 - Building Information Bachelor of
apply the different photography Modeling
techniques in photographing Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture +4 Studio) Science in
students’ projects.
Prerequisite: DES 210 or ARC 280
ARC 540 - Sustainable Design This course explores Building Mechanical
Credit Hours: 3 (2 Lecture + 2 Information Modeling (BIM) Engineering
Studio) programs from Preliminary Design
Prerequisite: ARC 420 or ARC 410 through Design Development, and
into Construction Documents. It
This course investigates the theory focuses on streamlining the design
and practice of sustainability and the process with a central 3D model. Degree Requirements
interrelated design methods and
processes for achieving sustainability ARC 590 - Building Economics
at the urban scale of reference. It Credit Hours: 3 (2 lecture+2 Studio)
examines how sustainable theory Prerequisite: IND 460 or ARC 340 MTT 200 - Calculus II
influences practice and informs
design thinking. It raises the urge for This course covers the principles Credit Hours: 3
forwarding a more sustainable way of of economics and its application Prerequisite: MTT 102
designing, living and thinking, given in the construction and building This course is a continuation
the discourse on global warming industry. It conveys an appreciation of Calculus I. The course will
and the UAE’s intricate conditions of macroeconomics, business and concentrate on integral calculus. A
that return us to local solutions, fiscal aspects of engineering practice. recurring theme throughout the
implemented in a contemporary Attention is given to essential topics semester will be the relationship
way. The elements of the Arab such as Market demand, Competition between an approximation and
city are revisited for this purpose. and monopoly, Macroeconomics, the exact value. The topics covered
Hence, the Community part of the Government and fiscal policies, are; The Fundamental Theorems of
Estidama Pearl-rating system will be Labour economics and Building Calculus, Techniques of Integration,
used to evaluate and enhance the obsolescence. Numerical Integration, Improper
sustainability of a given project. That Integrals, Area, Volumes, Arc
Project is consisted of the analysis of Length, and Average Values,
an existing Emirati National Housing Infinite Sequences and Series, and
Project and the design of alternative Applications in the field of science
conceptual proposals. Within this and engineering.
context, both an Environmental MTT 201 - Calculus III
Impact Assessment and a more
practical/business perspective of Credit Hours: 3
sustainability shall also become part Prerequisite: MTT 200
of the process.
This course is a continuation of
ARC 582 - 3D Modeling the study of calculus. The course
provides an introduction to the
Credit Hours: 3 ( 1 lecture design analysis. The topics covered
+ 4 Studio ) are: introduction to vectors, vector
Prerequisite: DES 210 or ARC 280 calculus, partial derivatives, and
This course is designed to teach an multiple integrals.
advanced level of 3D modeling and MTT 204 - Introduction to Linear
animation for architects. Emphasis
will be placed on building 3D world Algebra
space representing various aspects Credit Hours: 3
of the built environment. It will allow Prerequisite: MTT 200
students to build upon concepts such
as complex geometries, light effects, This course is an introduction to
materials, camera settings, physical Linear Algebra and some of its
motion, and modeling techniques, applications. The aim is to teach the
rendering, and post production. fundamentals of linear algebra in a

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