Prince Sultan University TLC 2024 Form 12 /Institutional
College/ Department Course Syllabus Template
Semester 2, 2024– 2025
INSTITUTIONAL COURSE SYLLABUS TEMPLATE
Course Code: ARCH 364 Course Title: Environmental Control I
Course Instructor: Email:
Dr.Humera Mughal (Coordinator) hmughal@psu.edu.sa
Credit Hours: Course Location:
2(2,2,0) N308-Dr Humera
W132-Dr Humera
Scheduled Office Hours: By Appointment
Refer to the instructor's schedule.
Office Location:
Dr.Humera Mughal (R111)
Co-Requisite: ARCH311 Pre-Requisite: ARCH251
On Campus or Online:
On Campus
Mission Statement
The mission of the AE program at PSU is to provide our students with high quality education
that meets international standards. This is achieved through enriching their knowledge,
motivating them to research-oriented lifelong learning, enhancing their critical thinking, and
applying modern technologies in their courses. Our team of qualified faculty aims at: preparing
students to lead a successful career in the professional field, encouraging them to create an
architecture that develops their environment and community, and boosting up their social
responsibility, involvement of sustainable designing and building for the future.
I. Course Description: This course covers a vast array of energy-related issues as they apply
to site planning and architectural design. Topics include thermal design comfort, site climate
analysis, building thermal response, and solar system design; air treatment, distribution
systems, and related energy systems; water resources supplies and treatment, distribution
and disposal systems; together with electrical, vertical transportation, communication,
security, and fire protections systems.
II. Course Learning Outcomes: (A summary of intended learning outcomes of the course
in each domain of learning). On the successful completion of this course, students will be
able to demonstrate the following
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Skills Course Learning Outcomes
Knowledge & understanding NA
Skills B.3. Codes and Regulations: Ability to design sites, facilities, and
systems that are responsive to relevant codes and regulations and
include the principles of local life-safety and accessibility standards.
(PLO4)
B.9. Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic
principles and appropriate application and performance of building
service systems, including lighting, mechanical, plumbing,
electrical, communication, vertical transportation, security, and fire
protection systems. (PLO4)
B.6. Environmental Systems: Ability to demonstrate the principles
Values of environmental systems’ design, how design criteria can vary by
geographic region, and the tools used for performance assessment.
This demonstration must include active and passive heating and
cooling, solar geometry, daylighting, natural ventilation, indoor air
quality, solar systems, lighting systems, and acoustics. (PLO6)
B.7. Building Envelope Systems and Assemblies: Understanding
of the basic principles involved in the appropriate selection and
application of building envelope systems relative to fundamental
performance, aesthetics, moisture transfer, durability, and energy
and material resources. (PLO6)
III. Tentative Weekly Course Schedule: (Should mention the specific course topics to be
covered within the semester) May change to accommodate guest presenters & student
needs.
WEEK UNIT/ TOPIC CLO(s) STUDENT TASKS Number
alignment (assignments, of
readings, exams, Contact
quizzes, hours
presentations,
etc…)
Week 29-02 4 hours
Syllabus discussion
1 Dec/Jan
Entrance Exam
Week 05-09 Lecture 1: B7, B6, 4 hours
2 Jan B3
● Energy sources
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● Building Form and
Orientation
● Climatic analysis
Week 12-16 Lecture 2: B6, B3 Assignment 4 hours
3 Jan ● Climatic analysis Introduction
● Solar geometry
● Shadow analysis
Week 19-23 Lecture 3: 4 hours
4 Jan ● Passive Design Working on
strategies (Heating assignment 1
and cooling) B6, B3
● Daylight (Window
size location,
shading devices)
Week 26-30 Major 1 (20%) Working on 4 hours
5 Jan CLO 1-4 assignment 1
Week 02-06 Lecture 4: 4 hours
6 Feb Working on
● Passive Design
B6, B3 assignment 1
strategies
● Natural Ventilation
Week 09-13 Working on 4 hours
Lecture 5: Active
7 Feb B6, B9 assignment 1
Design Strategies
Week 16-20 Lecture 6: Green Introduction to Term 4 hours
8 Feb building design Project
Submission of B9, B7 Working on Term
Assignment-1 project
Week 23-27 Lecture 7: Thermal B6, B7 Working on Term 4 hours
9 Feb Design Comfort project
Week 2-6 28 FEB - 5 APR EID ALFITR HOLIDAY
10 March
Week 9-13
11 March
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Week 16-20
12 March
Week 26-30
13 March
Week 30-03
14 March/Apr
Week 06-10 Major 2 (20%) CLO 1-4 Sunday, 6th Apr. 4 hours
15 April 20% Grade
Submission
Week 13-17 Lecture 8 B6, B7 Working on Term 4 hours
16 April ● Thermal Design project
Comfort
● Thermal Envelope
Week 20-24 Submission of Term Presentations 4 hours
17 April Project
Week 27-01 Lecture 9 B9 4 hours
18 April/May Rainwater harvesting
Week 4-08 Revision 4 hours
19 May
Week 11-15 Tuesday 13 May 4 hours
20 May Q & A session 60% grades
submission
Week 18-22 Final Exams (20-05-2025)
21 May Total 60
hrs
IV. Student Assessment & Teaching Strategies:
Domain Assessment Task Teaching Strategy
Knowledge
NA NA
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Skills Lectures, Class activities
Exam, Assignments (Research, Project Follow-up
& in class participation)
Competencies Class activities (Presentation,
Project Presentation, Assignments
Class Participation)
V. Course Requirements The tasks and assignments included in the course are aligned with the
specified learning outcomes.
Assessment C CLO1: B3 CLO2:B9 CLO3:B6 CLO4:B7
# Task L
O
1 Assignment 1 I A
2 Major I I I
3 Major II K A
4 Term Project K I A
5 Final Exam I K I A
Week Proportion of Final
# Assessment Task Associated CLO’s
Due Assessment
1 Attendance - - 5%
2 Assignment 1 8 B6,B7 5%
3 Major I 5 B3, B6 20%
4 Major II 15 B7, B9 20%
5 Project Presentation 17 B6, B7, B9 10%
6 Final Exam 21 B3, B6, B7, B9 40%
Total 100%
VI. Schedule of Assessment
# Assessment Task Week Due Proportion of Final Assessment
1 Attendance - 5%
2 Assignment 1 8 5%
3 Major I 5 20%
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4 Major II 15 20%
5 Project submission and Presentation 17 10%
6 Final Exam 21 40%
Total 100%
VII. Learning Resources
● A. References Sun, Wind & Light architectural design strategies,
Mark Dekay & G. Z. Brown., 3rd edition, Wiley, 2013.
● The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic
Design, Alison Kwok & Walter Grondzik, 3rd edition, Architectural Press,
2011
● Heating, cooling, lighting: sustainable design methods for architects,
Norbert Lechner, Wiley 2014
B. Facilities Required
The course requires
● Classroom
● enough plugs in the lecture room for students to carry out their class tasks
C. EDU-HUB Platform
● Moodle: grades will be published on Moodle. every week there will be studying
resources to view. Every student must check the course on Moodle weekly.
● Google drive: students are required to create a folder for this course and share it
with the instructor. All students need to upload their progress during class time
to this folder twice weekly at the end of each class (this folder will be graded).
VIII. Classroom Policies
A. Academic Integrity Policy
“Plagiarism can be defined as unintentionally or deliberately using another person’s writing
or ideas as though they are one’s own. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, copying
another individual’s work and taking credit for it, paraphrasing information from a source
without proper documentation, and mixing one’s own words with those of another author
without attribution. In addition, buying a paper or project, or downloading a paper from the
Internet, and submitting them as your own is also plagiarism. The penalty for academic
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dishonesty will bring course expulsion and failure, or even suspension” (Academic Integrity
and Syllabus Acknowledgement Form).
All students are expected to submit their ‘own’ work and not the work of others.
B. Attendance Policy
The University attendance policy will be strictly followed. In this course, absence of 25% of
Contact hours results in a Denied Notice (DN).
(Refer to the student regulation handbook for further details.)
Please Note: IT IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STUDENT TO KEEP
SATISFYING their level of attendance. Otherwise, a “DN” grade will be granted automatically
during any time in the semester without any notice from the e-register system. No make-up
exams will be allowed except for university accepted documents.
(Refer to the student regulation handbook for further details.) In any case, all special cases
should be referred to student’s affair and the Department Chairperson, who will make the final
decision together with the instructor. It is the sole responsibility of a student to keep satisfying
level of attendance. Otherwise, "DN" grade will be granted automatically during any time in the
semester, without any notice.
1. No make-up exams will be allowed except for university accepted documents. (Refer to
the student regulation handbook for further details.)
2. No make-up exams will be allowed except for university accepted documents. (Refer to
the student regulation handbook for further details.) students are expected to arrive on time and
will not be excused at any time unless instructed by the instructor. The attendance is taken within
15 minutes from the beginning of the lesson.
3. Arriving late or leaving early is both unprofessional and unacceptable, and in such cases,
students will be counted absent. Attending classes on time should be viewed no differently than
arriving to work on time. Therefore, students will not be allowed to enter class once the classroom
door is closed. It is disrespectful to both faculty and students and students and latecomers will not
be allowed to enter the class until there is a break. For every hour, or fraction of an hour, the
students wait to enter the class will be counted as an absence.
4. Students are responsible for obtaining information missed in conjunction with an absence
and the faculty will not recap information to student on a one-to-one basis. Missing class due
personal and/or family related illness must be accompanied by the appropriate documentation.
This is to insure an atmosphere of fairness with regards to late work and/or project extension.
C. Homework Submission Policy
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The issue and submission date for the assignment shall be as stated in the assignment brief. It
shall; however, be the responsibility of the student to ensure that:
• All work is submitted on time unless a written request in advance of the due date is made
and agreed with the module tutor.
• Where no request for extension is made or approved before the due date, late submissions
shall be subject to a penalty 10% of grade for each day. Submission will not be accepted
after 1 week from announced due date.
• Copying other student’s work is strictly prohibited, any copied work will be marked as
ZERO for both students.
• Missing any class assignments will be marked as ZERO. [NO MAKEUP
ASSIGNMENTS]
IX. My Assumptions
• It is student responsibility to check Moodle/mail/drive for any announcements before the
class, and for following up the update course timeline and syllabus.
• No change of grade requests will be accepted.
• No individual submissions are accepted for any group assignments and vice versa.
• It is the responsibility of the students to check updates to the Syllabus posted on
Moodle/Drive.
• Course syllabus might be having slight changes upon any updated announcements at the
department level. Students will be informed in all possible ways.
• Some lectures will be paired with audio-visual references. All references uploaded on
Course folder are mandatory to watch and study for exams
• Some supplementary readings will be available on drive on some topics • No submission
will be accepted in personal or professional email.
• The assignment or project will not be accepted by the instructor if the students fail to have
a prior discussion during the classes assigned to work on them.
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