2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Indoor Air Environment
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Naoki Kagi
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Tue
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- UDE.E502
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The air environment in urban and buildings can affect human health. It is necessary to know the Influence of urban and buiding environments to human beings and the countermasure for better environment.
This course of air environmental engineering focuses on the air environment in urban and building environment, and can supply the latest information for your major.
Course description and aims
This lecture will be able to understood about not only urban and building air environment but also environmental quality, such as temperature, relative humidity, and so on.
Furthermore, you will be able to examine problems and solutions for urban and building environment in your research field.
Keywords
environmental engineering, indoor air environment, air quality
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In the first half of the course, lectures about urban and built environments are given. In the latter half, students should find out the research paper related your major about air environment, make a presentation and review.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Outline of this course | Understand the outline of this course. |
| Class 2 | Building environmental engineering | Understand the course objectives. |
| Class 3 | Building maintainace of sanitation | Understand the building maintainace of sanitation. |
| Class 4 | Indoor environment | Understand the indoor environment. |
| Class 5 | Latast research of indoor environments | Understand the latest research of indoor environmen. |
| Class 6 | Presentation (thermal environment, Light environment) | Introduce and discuss about thermal and light environments. |
| Class 7 | Presentation (Air environment) | Introduce and discuss about air environments. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None required.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Presentation
Related courses
- ARC.E423 ： Air Quality Engineering
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.