Course Syllabus
AE 380
Spring 2
00
7
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1
of
4
AE
430
:
Control Systems for
HVAC
Syllabus for
Spring
200
7
(Tuesday/ Thursday:
11:00
–
12:30
)
Room:
Curtis 352A
Instructor:
Dr. Jin Wen
Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
Alum Engineering 270
-
H
Phone:
215.
895
.
4911
Email
:
jinwen@drexel.edu
Office Hours:
Instructor:
Tue/Thur 1
4
:00
–
1
5
:00
or by appointment
Purpose:
-
Introduce
the
basic
concepts of
control
s applied
to HVAC system
:
D
irect digital control
system
C
ontrol
loop
S
y
st
em modeling for control purpose
Transferring function
S
electing and
locating sensors and actuators
-
Design tuning control algorithms
-
D
esign and program con
trol sequences for HVAC systems
Objectives:
By the end of the term, the s
tudents
of this cla
ss
should:
1. Understand the basic
concepts of control loop
2. Understand the basic
structure of
direct
digital control system
3. Get
familiar with the sensor
s
, actuator
s
, and control algorithms
commonly used
in HVAC systems
4. Be able to design a simp
le control algorithm
for
a
HVAC system control
5. Be able to select, locate, and size most commonly used sensor
s
and actuator
s
in HVAC systems
6. Be able to design and program control sequences for HVAC system
s
Prerequisites:
1)
AE 220 or
2) MEM 41
4
or
3) Approval by
the i
nstructor
Textbooks:
“Control Systems and Applications for HVAC/R”, Thomas Horan,
XanEdu, 2005
Additional handouts as required
Reference
:
“
Electromechanical and Electronic Controls for HVAC/R”, Billy C. Langley, Prentice Hall,
1999
Course Syllabus
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Spring 2
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Course Evaluation
Policy:
Homework:
15
%
P
roject
I
2
5
%
Project II
2
5
%
Comprehensive
exam
3
0
%
Class attendance
5
%
(on class quiz and question)
Important:
Earning a final grade less than 50% will fail to pass this course.
Homework:
-
A
ssignments
, each consisting of a number of proble
ms, will be given on the day of each
class and due at
the
beginning
of the next class on Tuesdays.
-
Your solutions
can be either typed or handwritten
. But, losing credits due to the illegibility of you
r
solutions
is
your
sole
responsibility.
-
No assignments submitted via WebCT are accepted
.
-
Late due assignments are generally
NOT
accepted.
-
A late due assignment may receive up to 70% of the actual credits earned on this assignment with a
rea
sonable excuse, which is subject to the instructor's judgment.
-
Solutions will be posted on the course homepage (WebCT).
-
No assignments are accepted
, by any excuse, after the corresponding solutions are posted on WebCT.
-
The office hours are your re
source to accomplish these assignments
and this course. Please stop by and
bring in any of your questions in conjunction with your assignments and this course.
Handouts
:
-
The
class
note
s
and
other
pertinent
material
s
will be
posted on
the course home
page (WebCT)
.
The
c
opyright of the
se
material
s shall be
respected.
Exams
:
-
A final comprehensive exam
, accounting for 30% of your final grade of this course,
will be given
in the
final week. You have 100 minutes to finish this exam with open book an
d
closed notes
.
-
Incompl
ete solutions, lack of work
-
out steps toward answers
, and illegible handwriting will cause
you to
lose partial or full credits on your solutions.
-
Exam problems are derived from your reading assignments, class notes and hom
ework assignments.
Study and review of these materials before the exam will help you to crash the exam.
-
Please be advised that there
will be NO ti me for you to dig in the book for solutions
during the final
exam
, because the exam is well designed for a
full
working load of 100 minutes solely in solving problems.
The open book is for you to
refer to equations, charts and tables
i
n the book i
n assistance to solving
problems.
-
No make
-
up exam will be granted unless:
1.
A student
is deeply sick on the day
of exam with a doctor's written proof; or
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2.
A student runs into a family emergency, involving an immediate family member,
on the day of
exam with
a proof letter from either a parent or guardian of such a student.
-
A petition of a make
-
up exam must be se
nt to the instructor
within three days
following the exam day.
Class attendance:
Class
attendance
will be randomly checked. Each
absence
caught will cause losing
2 %
of the
points
, up to
the maximum of
5
% points for class attendance.
WebCT:
The
course syllabus, class notes, assignments and other reading materials will be posted on
WebCT
for you
to access and obtain. All important class announcements will be published and communicated via WebCT.
It is the sole responsibilit ies of the students
to get used to using WebCT. For those of you, who
are not
familiar with the WebCT environment
, please resort to any available resource to l
earn and
cope with it.
For WebCT related questions, please check the student WebCT manual
at
http://webct.drexel.edu/web
-
ct/help/en/mywebct/StudentManual/index.html
, or
Contact the WebCT Support Group at
webct@drexel.edu
To access your WebCT courses, log on to Drexelone,
click Student Service tab, then click My Course, click
the course that you want to access from the list.
Once you
log on to WebCT
, select the course that you want to access.
Email:
Students' email r
elated to this course and sent
to the instructor wi
ll
be
replied
on every Tuesday and
Thursday. Please check your Drexel email accounts on a regular basis for class updates.
For the benefits of students, the q
uestions that
demand a rather complex
explanation
shall be asked in
person during the office hou
rs.
Schedule:
Week
Date
Topic
Reading
1
4
/
3
Introduction to
C
ontrol
S
ystem
Chap. 1
-
4
4/5
Building Intelligent System I
Handout
2
4/10
Building Intelligent System II
Chap 13
4/12
Sensor and Actuator Transfer Function
Chap 5, 6, handout
3
4/17
B
uilding and HVAC Modeling
4/19
Control algorithm I
Chap 8
4
4/24
Control algorithm II
Chap 11,12
4/26
Project I
5
5/1
Design of Control Sequence
Chap 14
5/3
AHU Control Strategies I
Chap 15
6
5/8
AHU Control Strategies II
Chap 16, 17,19
5/10
Z
one Terminal Device Control I
Chap 20
7
5/15
Zone Terminal Device Control II
Chap 20
5/17
Project II
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5/22
Project II
5/24
Sensors
Chap 7
9
5/29
Field Visit
5/31
Actuators
Chap 9
10
6/5
Cooling Plant Control
Handout
6/7
Comprehensive
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