This course explores how a building’s operational efficiency as well as occupants’ productivity and safety can be improved through the use of advanced and smart technologies. Students will be introduced to principles of smart systems and green building systems, in addition to how these principles integrate and interact.

presenting the practice of creating sustainable building structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient. It addresses the full range of issues associated with sustainable buildings, including energy consumption, use of materials, building systems, users’ behaviours and environment concerns.

Course Description: The course teaches theoretical foundations and concepts of digital systems and applies these concepts with design problems and projects. Students are exposed to the design and engineering of digital computers and subsystems.

Course Description: This course is a hands-on introduction to microcontrollers using the Arduino platform. Fundamentals of computer programming will be covered, as students will learn to program the Arduino microcontroller platform. Students will be able to create a variety of projects by using analog and digital I/O and interfacing electronics and computers. Course experiments are designed to explore microcontroller basics, covering LEDs, transistors, motors, integrated circuits, pushbuttons, variable resistors, photo resistors, temperature sensors, and relays. In addition, the course explains the concept of real-time systems and why such systems are usually implemented as concurrent processes. The course describes the process for real-time systems and overviews the role of a real-time OS. It introduces the generic process architectures for monitoring and control and data acquisition systems.

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