Advanced Energy Innovations Ontario

AEIO delivers and licenses a course on heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC). The course is suitable for in-class and online delivery by universities as an undergraduate, graduate or professional development course (further explained below).

This is an applied course that focuses on how HVAC systems work and how they can be made more energy-efficient. The logical stepwise approaches to analyzing HVAC systems are illustrated with many detailed examples.

The course developer, Thomas Simko, PhD, PEng, has taught this subject at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as a professional development course. He has received nine university teaching awards.

No prerequisite is required. Although some background in thermodynanics could be helpful, all of the necessary basic concepts are introduced at the start of the course. This course has been delivered to mechanical and civil engineers.

The available topics are listed below. We will customize the course according to the needs and interests of your department.

Thermodynamics Background	Enthalpy, temperature-volume diagrams and units
Air Conditioning Systems	All-air, air-water and all-water systems
Psychrometrics	Fundamentals and the psychrometric chart
Basic Air Conditioning	Humidification and dehumidification
Advanced Air Conditioning	Mixed air streams, sensible heat factor, realistic applications
Indoor Air Quality	Comfort, contaminants, contaminant control
Heat Transfer Modes	Conduction, convection and radiation
Heat Transfer in Buildings	Walls, ceilings, windows, doors, slabs and basements
Infiltration & Exfiltration	Crack method, wind pressure and stack pressure
Heating Load	Heat conduction and infiltration loads and the calculation of the heating load
Cooling Load	Concepts including thermal mass, conduction through walls and windows, solar heat gain, internal gains, infiltration, delays in heat flows becoming part of the load, and the radiant time series method
Solar Energy	The solar spectrum and solar heat gain calculations
Advanced HVAC Systems	Heat recovery systems and dedicated outdoor air systems

Revenue Opportunities	This is a versatile multi-use course that offers your department multiple revenue streams (described in the next section).
Awarded Faculty	Developed by an award-winning university instructor, this is a high-quality course which, if well-presented, can result in outstanding student satisfaction and award opportunities for your faculty.
Low Maintenance	The comprehensive slides present clear explanations and many detailed examples laid out in logical steps. Instructors can therefore expect fewer emails and requests for after class help.
Sub-contractible	That same comprehensive nature makes this an easy course to turn over to someone with a limited background in the field (e.g., a graduate student) for short periods or subcontracted for a term.

Without any modification, this course can be delivered to university students in a traditional in-class format or as an online course. The clear explanations and detailed examples of the lecture slides facilitate at-home online learning. The course is so comprehensive it can effectively teach itself.

The clarity of the curriculum together with no required background also makes this an ideal professional development course. Without modification, it can be delivered to professionals in-class or online. Recognizing that universities are moving into this lucrative and growing field of educatiosn, we would like to highlight this additional opportunity for your department.

More information about how this could also serve as a professional development course - specifically how it can appeal to industry and practicing engineers - is presented at: HVAC-Corporate .

Personal delivery	Three or four days of instruction, slides created with Powerpoint(R)
Slides in hardcopy	Bound printouts of the slides
Summaries	Summary sheets for the equations and symbols
Follow-up	The instructor will remain available to answer questions by email.

The graduate version of this course comes with more challenging assignment and exam questions as well as a project (a building energy audit). With separate evaluative materials, this course can be offered concurrently to undergraduate and graduate students.

The following textbook has been adopted for this course and is a required purchase for students:

McQuiston, F., Parker, J, Spitler, J. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, 6th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

Please contact us to discuss how we can customize and schedule this course to meet the needs of your company.

Advanced Energy Innovations Ontario

hVAC COURSE FOR UNIVERSITY CLIENTS