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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Introduction to Indoor Air Quality

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology via Coursera

Overview

Course Overview: https://youtu.be/LLVb4FOn4uU
This course provides a basic knowledge of an emerging area – Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in buildings. Learners will realize the importance of maintaining proper IAQ.

Characteristics associated with indoor air contaminants (IAC) are demonstrated, such as
• Particulate matters (PM2.5, PM10)
• Radon
• Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
• Asbestos
• Bio-aerosols, and more

Safe exposure levels, resulting health effects, measurement techniques, mitigate and control measures of these IAC are discussed.

Other important areas related to IAQ such as building ventilation systems, indoor flow characteristics, sick building syndrome, and thermal comfort are also covered in this course.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
    • Why do we care about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)? In the first module, basic concepts of IAQ are illustrated. Besides, Ventilation is effective in improving IAQ in general. We shall look into the ventilation concept, methodologies, and measurement techniques.
  • Radon and Indoor Aerosol
    • In this module, two major Indoor Air Contaminants - Radon and Indoor Aerosol are discussed. Their properties, sources, health impacts, mitigation and control measures are explained. Besides, we will look into another effective method to improve IAQ - Use of Air Cleaners. Some industries, such as pharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturing, require very high cleanliness indoor environments. We will look into how professionals build cleanrooms for these industries.
  • VOCs, Ozone and Combustion Related Pollutants
    • In this module, three other major Indoor Air Contaminants that can easily be found at home and office. - (1) Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), (2) Ozone and (3) Combustion related Air Contaminants (i.e., Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen Dioxide) are introduced.
  • Bioaerosols and Asbestos
    • In the last module of course, we look into the two other major indoor air contaminants - Bioaerosols and Asbestos. Staying in a clean environment does not mean the environment is comfortable. "Thermal Comfort" is also an issue that we need to consider. We also look into "Thermal Comfort" in this module.

Taught by

Christopher Chao and Edwin Tso

Reviews

4.8 rating, based on 90 Class Central reviews

4.7 rating at Coursera based on 598 ratings

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  • Saif Ullah
    It is a very informative course. I highly recommend this course for all and especially for the HVAC and building facilities management related people.
  • Anonymous
    So informative and engaging. The learnings I gained are intended for real life application as intended by the course. The presentations are well-crafted to be suitable to first timers to this body of knowledge. Everything that is essential to indoor air quality has been tackled. The professors clearly delivered the course content. They were able to channel their knowledge to us recipients in the best way possible. The presentation slides and the suggested reading-learning tasks are well programmed and complements to the overall learning mechanism. Thank you professors for sharing your knowledge to us. I am also grateful to the university and coursera for approving the financial aid I applied for this course. I am truly grateful for that.
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  • Anonymous
    It's a very informative course and suitable for beginners. I would highly recommend for those who are working in the green building or operation of building and looking for a very basic course.
  • Joe Adabouk Amooli
    This course was really good. I learnt many things in this course that will help me in my future career as atmospheric scientist.
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    Amin Kooklan
    As I am a Fluid Mechanic engineer and HVAC designer, This course was a fantastic course related to my job and skills.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    The course was informative and useful. The professors did a great job at making us fully understand the concept of IAQ. This is a perfect course for somebody trying to learn something different from the usual stuffs we learn. Also we all might have a small knowledge in the course from our early schooling , thus making the course much more easy. Also this is a real life issue we are learning about which helps us in maintaing a proper IAQ at your home ,thereby protecting the people you care about.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    This course is very helpful for Facility Management professional for implementing the Air quality knowledge.
    During learning process I got huge amount of knowledge regarding our day today usage process which we usually ignore.

    Moreover this course is very nice & helpful to me.
  • Anonymous
    Great course . The course was informative and useful. The professors did a great job at making us fully understand the concept of IAQ. This is a perfect course for somebody trying to learn something different from the usual stuffs we learn. Also we all might have a small knowledge in the course from our early schooling , thus making the course much more easy. Also this is a real life issue we are learning about which helps us in maintaing a proper IAQ at your home ,thereby protecting the people you care about.
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    Anonymous completed this course.

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    i have learned a lot as a student regarding the Indoor air quality course from coursera and i believe this knowledge will help me also during the undertaking of the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning course as well
  • Kishan Sanganal

    Kishan Sanganal completed this course.

    Very good and useful to understand the experience and understand the lesson told by professor the pronunciation was good slow and helpful to understand and learn to study the subject very fast the question in quiz were very easy after to answer
  • Anonymous
    Enjoy the course thoroughly and well presented by 2 lecturers. Keep up the good work.

    I was attracted to this course as I want to find out more about Sick Building Syndrome, and it gave me more than what I needed. It opened my eyes to newer knowledge that I am sure would help me in my future work, or in my own personal home setting. I would encourage people to take this course.

    The 2 lecturers did a good job presenting key concepts.

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    thank you for this pretty nice course.
    I learned a lot of important information that I need on the topic of indoor air quality, And I will continue learning and go forward in it.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    if u want to learn about indoor air quality this course complestes all related topics and gives good discription in details .the mcq nd all test keep student attentive
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    Good lessons for me. Good experience for future plan. Learn skill for my current job.I have enough opportunities to practice for the graded assignments and quizzes.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous is taking this course right now.

    very good. my suggestion to have some calculations in assignments. video appears a little robotic. presenter seems to read from teleporter.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    Its a good short course which can be completed within weeks and can be added to your resume for future uses and also broadens your knowledge.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    the course was just Perfect and easy to follow as well as to complete, i really loved the course and found it really helpful.
    Thank yoh

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