CS 6501

CS 6501 - Smart & Healthy Buildings; co-taught by Arsalan Heydarian and Brad Campbell. This was easily my favorite class from Fall 2021 (the review is filed under Fall 2017 because tCF doesn't handle "Special Topics in ..." very well, sadly). One of the topics we discussed the most was how a building can detect occupants, whether as a boolean value (occupied or not) or an integer (x people in a room). It's an interesting question that gets far more complex than I ever would have considered before. This course did not involve a great deal of work, but was by far the course I learned the most from this semester. It's a great example of how more coursework != more learning. Speaking of coursework, we completed a few lab assignments (not too challenging), a 3 assignments (two individual, research-focused and one group, implementation-focused), led a class discussion on a particular topic from the readings, and a final group project involving sensing a building state (i.e. temperature), processing that state data, and actuating some physical device accordingly.