About the Final Lab–Senior Design Presentation

Follow the instructions in the Week-11 Assignment.

Notes:

• The lab is due by Saturday 12/6 at 11:59PM. 
  • This is NOT a full week after you attend the presentation.  It’s the same week.
• You may attend a Senior Design presentation in another department if you wish, but you need to submit by the same due date.
• The schedule for presentations in this calendar is NOT official.  It may change
• The CAEE conference room is located on the 2nd floor of AEL – see this map for help.

12/8/2014 Updated due date to 12/6 (incorrectly showed 12/16).  I had announced the correct date in class and BbL showed that as well.

About the Online Final Assessment

Where Do I Find It?

• Click on the “Quizzes and Exams” menu item in the course website in BbLearn

When It’s Available – LAST WEEK OF CLASSES – NOT EXAM PERIOD

• Opens – Midnight Thursday Morning  12/4 
• Closes – 11:59PM Sunday Evening 12/7

How Much Does It Count?

• 18% of the total grade

What is on it?

• 75% Multiple Choice + True/False + Multiple Answers (more than one answer per question possible)
  • These are drawn from the lectures and the labs in the course.
  • A few require you to be careful in your thinking, but most are straightforward.
• 15% – Calculation Questions based on the labs
  • The description and logic for calculating the answer are the same, but each student will see different numbers
• 10% – 200 words or more on the Best or Worst (or Both) Aspects of CAEE-201 – graded on being specific, not on your opinions.

May I take It More than Once?

• Yes, you may take it up to three times – each time you have 3 hours
• You will not receive your score after taking the assessment– not until I have graded the essays after the assessment closes
• You may not save and resume during one instance of the test.
• Each time you take it the numbers for the calculations and the order of the questions will probably be different.
• You should assume that we will use the grade from the last instance that you take the assessment.

IAQ and HVAC Energy Lab–Questions

Question

1.) In the lab for week 8, we are given the formula E(airflow) = m*[0.24T+W(.045T+1061)].

     What are T and W in this equation?

 

Response

T & W are the Temperature and Humidity of the air being considered

 

Question

2.) Next were supposed to calculate electricity consumed by the chiller to provide cooling energy (Ele) and utility cost. How exactly do you do this?

 

Response

See the this post.

IAQ and Energy Lab–Conditions and Units

 

Questions

• For the calculations for mass flow rate of both ventilation air and exhaust air, I’m assuming that the exhaust air uses indoor air temperature and indoor air humidity ratio for calculations because its going from in to out. And I would assume thats the other way for ventilation air, is that correct?
• Also a clarification for the total heating gain, we were given the parameter of 280 kBtu/hr and the Excel file asks for units of Btu/hr, is it meant to be converted to that unit?

Response

• If the room is assumed to be thoroughly mixed then what’s leaving would be at the same conditions as what’s in the room.
• What’s coming in from outside almost certainly has the same conditions as outside.
• If you’re given quantities in different units, then converting between them is highly desirable.

EER Use In Calculations

Question

When I am calculating the energy consumed by the chiller from the cooling energy provided by the cooling coil, should I use the EER value to make that conversion or the basic unit conversion given? 

Response

EER (or SEER) is a mixed units efficiency rating that allows you to know how many watt-hours of energy will be consumed to produce/move a given number of BTUs.  The Wikipedia definition is worthwhile.

Knowing this definition should help you to address the question posed in the assignment.

Printing Revit to PDF

If you are working in the CAEE CadLab printing your Revit Sheet to a PDF.  Is simple.

• Display the sheet on the screen in Revit
• Tell Revit to Print - (Cntrl-P) or From the Revit menu in the upper left corner
• Choose Adobe PDF as your printer from the dropdown in the dialog box that that opens.
• Save the PDF to the desktop so you can access it.

If you’re working at home you’ll need to install a PDF printer.  There are many available.

• TechsupportAlert.com, is an excellent site that lists many free Windows programs.  Here’s their page for free PDF Writer Software
• For what it’s worth, I’ve used Bullzip successfully.
• Once it’s installed than you’ll use the same process as in the lab.

Week-8 - Rec Center Tour - Lab Locations and Times

This coming week we’ll be touring the Rec Center AND having time in the lab to address the calculation assignment of the week.  You should plan to be involved the whole two hours of your lab period.  The sessions in GL-48 are to help you with the lab calculations.

Note that we will meet outside the East entrance to the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (inside if raining).  Here’s a map showing where we’ll meet and where we’ll go.

Wear flat shoes (NOT heels) – we’ll walk on sensitive surfaces.

As was the case last week, if a few of you from section #61  wish to come in the morning during the #60 times there should be space since the afternoon lab is bigger than the morning lab.  If too many show up we'll have to turn away extras.

Time & Location

Time & Location

Lab	Last Name	Time	Location	2nd Hour
060	A-L	10:00	Papadakis ISB	GL-48
060	M-Z	10:00	GL-48	Papadakis ISB
061	A-K	12:00	Papadakis ISB	GL-48
061	L-Z	12:00	GL-48	Papadakis ISB

Revit Lab - Alternate Assignment

Unfortunately we had technical difficulties in the CadLab this morning so some of the students were unable to undertake the Lab using Revit in CAT-167.  We have fixed the problem and will post how to complete the lab using the CadLab machines.

For those students here are your alternatives.  Other students should complete the lab as assigned following the instructions issued in the CadLab.

1. Complete the lab on your own windows machine by downloading Revit 2015 from students.autodesk.com.
2. Use the lab machines later in the week once we have Revit working on them.
1. We'll announce when it is working
2. The videos and instructions for doing it on your own have been found adequate by most students in past.
3. Perform the assignment described below as an alternate. 
1. Be sure to note in your BbLearn submission that Revit wasn't working when you were in the lab so you're performing the Alternate.

Alternate Assignment

You will create a 1,000 word (2pp single spaced) document that addresses the following questions:

1. What is a BIM program?  (20%)
1. Revit is one example of a BIM program
2. How does it differ from a drafting program such as Autocad (20%)
3. What are the advantages of a BIM program (20%)
4. What are the disadvantages of a BIM (20%)
5. Grammar and Spelling and organization (20%)

1. Cite professional level sources (as with the discussions)
2. Be specific in your answers
3. Address all the questions
4. Provide examples for each questions using the literature you've researched.

We suggest that you can complete this assignment effecitvely by writing about 1/2 page single spaced on each of these questions.

Lab-7– Revit –Times and Locations

Location

This week’s lab will again be located in the CAEE CadLab in CAT-167.  It’s on the ground floor in the Southeast corner of the building.  CAT is the building to the North of Ludlow (where the food trucks are located)  - Link to Google Maps

 

Familiarity – Email to Skip Lab Session

If you are already competent with Revit you may send me an email (James.Mitchell@Drexel.edu) BEFORE the lab time saying you know Revit and don’t need to attend the lab.  I’ll mark you present for the lab.

Times

Because there are only a limited number of computers in the lab we’re splitting each section in half, so each comes for only 1 hour.  You may exchange with a student from another section, but except as noted below please do not come at a time different than the one to which you’re assigned.

Note that section 061 is much bigger than Section 060 so some students from 061 may come to the 060 times with a reasonable chance of finding a place.  Those officially in the section will have priority if we exceed the capacity of the room.

Section 060 10:00-12:00

• A-L  10:00
• M-Z  11:00

Section 061 12:00-2:00

• A-K  12:00
• L-Z 1:00

 

Revit

We’ll be using the program Revit in the lab.  You’re welcome to download it for your laptop for free from http://students.autodesk.com.

• It’s a 3GB download and a 5GB Install
• You’ll need to register with Autodesk
• It’s for Windows Machines only
• Be aware you’ll need to copy the files you create in the lab to yourself via thumbdrive, email, DropBox or something similar.  Your files will probably be erased from the machines.
• Also be aware that files created in a newer version of Revit are NOT openable in older versions.

Grading Notes–Attendance and Calculation Method

I’ve brought the attendance grades up to date through week-6.  You should check the attendance score and other grades now rather than at the end of the term.

Notes on the grading:

• Attendance scores are “raw”.  At the end of the term I will make an allowance for one missed lab and two missed lectures – a total of three.  This will improve your attendance score in the final grade calculation.
• Discussion and Lab scores are already adjusted to drop the lowest score in calculating the running total. 
  • HOWEVER.  If you didn’t turn in a lab or discussion that one is not included in the calculation during the term.  IT WILL be included as a “0” at the end of the term so your overall grade could decrease