Architectural Engineering Research Faculty
Dr. Demir specialties include sustainable design, energy efficient buildings, urban building energy modeling, integrating and controlling building loads, building energy modeling and analysis, and climate change.
Dr. Wang specializes in building performance modeling, fault detection and diagnosis for HVAC systems, energy efficiency for indoor agriculture, and resource-efficient and resilient future communities,
Disciplines
Architectural Engineering has two focuses, read more about them below.
Structural Design and Analysis
The structural design option prepares the Architectural Engineer to analyze, design and detail the structural components of building systems. The curriculum builds upon a strong engineering science background of statics, soil and material mechanics and structural analysis to develop competency in steel, timber and concrete design. It also provides many of the concepts that architects use to make a building aesthetically pleasing and functional.
Building Mechanical Systems
Architectural Mechanical Engineers specialize in the design of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, refrigeration (HVAC-R) plumbing, fire protection, and noise reduction for buildings. They are also intimately concerned with the optimal integration of such systems with the architectural, structural and electrical design. Architectural Mechanical Engineers use modern analytical and numerical techniques to predict thermal behavior and to assess operational characteristics of mechanical systems to optimize (minimize) total energy consumption based space use requirements. The analysis and design are grounded in fundamental principles of thermal and fluid sciences, which form an essential component of the engineer's education.
Architectural Engineering faculty in the mechanical option at UW conduct research
in the areas of HVAC-R, geothermal heat exchangers, thermal energy storage, evaporative
cooling, building thermodynamics, thermal systems modeling and simulation, and energy
analysis and management. The laboratories include facilities to test thermal energy
storage and response characteristics of the ground via geothermal heat exchangers
and a HVAC testing and system demonstration facility that is developed around an all-air
HVAC unit with variable frequency fan drives, in-duct heat exchangers, variable air
volume components and a heat recovery.
The mechanical option prepares the Architectural Mechanical Engineer to design, analyze,
detail and specify the components of a building mechanical system. The curriculum
is founded upon a strong engineering science background of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics
and heat transfer along with courses in analysis and design of air and hydronic systems,
which ultimately develop competency in HVAC-R design. The Architectural Mechanical
Engineer also understands, appreciates and enhances concepts that Architects, and
Structural and Electrical Architectural Engineers use to make a building aesthetically
pleasing and functional.
