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Systems class
My systems professor says building 'beeolding'. Also our homework consists of problems like what is a fan? and.. if 60% of the light entering a stain glass window is transmitted, is it translucent or opaque? What are others' experience of their systems classes? I feel mine is way overly simplified, and we learn lots of terms and how to read tables rather than how a system actually fits into a building, which is what architects should know how to do?
-Just curious
your class sounds retarded.
if a fan turns in a room and no one is around, does it make wind?
Seems like a very "philosophical" approach to building systems.
haha, sounds a lot like what my systems class was...
my building systems class met at 8am and the prof sounded like ben stein (bueller... bueiler), so I had a really hard time staying awake.
I kind of wonder about systems classes in general, honestly; i really feel like it's almost impossible to learn *anything* about systems until you literally see them in the field and have conversations with the mep engineer and the tradesmen who deal in it all day. THEN you go back and read your systems books and suddenly it starts to make sense.
Better to learn a holistic approach to overall heating / cooling building so that you know the general framework that the specific details you learn in the field will fit into.
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