The main goal of this project was to evaluate the indoor environment created by the Mount Shasta Institute for Job Creation and Restorative Technology, a proposed net-zero building using no mechanical heating or cooling, to be built in Mount Shasta, California. To do this, we modeled the building in DesignBuilder and ran several simulations. This […]
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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023–2024 ASHRAE Southern California Chapter Student Scholarships. These scholarships recognize exceptional students from four-year engineering programs who have shown a commitment to advancing their knowledge and careers in the HVAC&R industry. Katherine Hennig has been awarded the ASHRAE Engineering Scholarship, receiving $3,500 for her outstanding academic […]
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The Net-Zero Design/Construction-A-Thon had students teams compete on an engineering project with mentors from the industry at Cal Poly from January 26 to 28. There was a high level of student interest in the competition, as evidenced by the 75 applications we received for the 42 available spots. View pictures from the event here. […]
Dr. Mott along with her students was awarded $2,000 for their pioneering project, “Sustainable Energy From Organic Waste: Anaerobic Decomposition and Thermoelectric Generation.” In a competitive field of 43 outstanding submissions, 9 ASHRAE chapters, including the Southern California Chapter in collaboration with Cal Poly’s Student Branch and the San Jose Chapter, were selected to receive […]
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We had a strong representation at the 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Chicago, with nine dedicated students proudly representing our HVAC&R Program. […]
Our senior design students were honored at 2024 ASHRAE Winter Conference for placing 2nd and 3rd in the 2023 ASHRAE Student Competition. […]
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We visited Western Allied Mechanical in the Bay Area, including a tour of their shop as well as a job site. On November 1st we attended the ASHRAE San Jose Chapter student night. Here are some of the student reactions: “Thank you Western Allied Mechanical! It was so kind of you all to allow us […]
We had a phenomenal Annual Event this October! We kicked off the our three day event on October 5th with a Women in ASHRAE dinner for our students. Our special guest was Karine Leblanc, author of “How to be Human in a Technical World”. On October 6, we had the HVAC&R career fair and industry […]
We kicked-off our Annual HVAC&R Event 2023 with the Women in ME dinner! Karine Leblanc presented The Power of EQ: bridging the gap between technical brilliance and human connections. Over 50 women students attended the dinner and made connections with one another, as well as with industry and faculty. […]
Click the link here to view the Cal Poly HVAC&R second and third place winners for the 2023 ASHRAE Competition. […]
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A total of 319 new students have used the three new refrigeration units in their first-year lab. Thanks to the HVAC&R IAB for sponsoring these units! The Building Automation System of the AHU in the HVAC&R lab will be upgraded to the newest state of the art hardware and software. The planning phase for the […]
A senior project team of four HVAC&R mechanical engineers were tasked with the design of a walk-in, partitionable climate chamber running with a transcritical CO2 refrigeration cycle. The chamber design is to be constructed as a future project, and then the chamber would be used for years to come to give students hands-on experience with […]
Design a portable IAQ health meter that will detect contaminants in a space and display the levels of different toxins to the user. The system should identify related IAQ issues and provide solutions and/or next steps to solve these problems. The system shall consider multiple system variables, including space temperature, humidity, contaminant level (as outlined […]
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Students were tasked to present the methods and decisions that went into selecting an HVAC system for a single-story laboratory facility in Cairo, Egypt. This 2,515 m2 (27,000 ft2) new construction contains a variety of rooms, including wet bench labs, dry bench computational labs, research support offices, a common area for circulation, a break room, […]
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This project involves a new 5-story (around 500 bed) student housing building on the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) campus which has net-zero energy usage. For this project, students worked directly with Glumac – an MEP firm specializing in cost effective sustainable building design – to influence building massing and orientation and select an […]
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The Anderson Hotel is a 5-story historic hotel in downtown San Luis Obispo on the corner of Monterey and Morro. This building is set to be modernized and converted to a mixed-use low-income housing building while maintaining the historic architectural elements. The first floor will have retail tenants and the upper 4 floors will be […]