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Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Certificate Program
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SUNY ESF COURSES

Special Topics: Economics and Management of High-Performance Buildings
(ERE596)

Lectures, conferences, discussion and laboratory. Topics in environmental and resource engineering not covered in established courses. Fundamentals of the economics of high performance buildings from design through operations, to maintenance. Existing building samples will be used as case studies to develop life-cycle cost analyses, calculate return-on-investment ratios and estimate human health and productivity benefits.
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Advanced Topics (ERE796)
Current and emerging professional practices in applied energy conservation design of high-performance buildings and indoor environments for human health and comfort; extensive research into existing precedents and products; business writing; the development of an original idea through completion of an independent project. For unemployed program participants or participants seeking a career change, an internship assignment for a local company may be arranged.
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COURSES

Building Environmental Measurements and Controls (MAE552)
Fundamental concepts and principles of building environmental systems design and operation including thermal comfort and indoor air quality criteria. Latest industrial standards for building ventilation and environmental measurements will be discussed.
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Building Materials and Envelope Systems (MAE600)
Fundamentals of assembly structure design and analysis based on energy conservation and IEQ comfort; site resources related to energy conservation strategies for initial program design; envelope and double skin systems; the potential of thermal mass to store energy.
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Building Environmental Modeling and Simulation (MAE658)
Building environmental analysis, containment source and sink models: single zone, multi-zone, and computational fluid dynamic models.
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