Virtual Laboratories for a Course on Indoor Environmental Quality

Abstract

Abstractâ?? This paper describes a set of software tools developed by the author to support the teaching of a course on Indoor Environmental Quality, given to the Master programme on Energy for Sustainability and PhD programme on Sustainable Energy Systems at the University of Coimbra, which are included on the MIT-Portugal Initiative educational programme. The course includes materials about Thermal Environment, Indoor Air Quality, Noise, Vibration, Lighting and the combined effect of these previous stressors. The software tools were developed both with Microsoft Excel and the programming platform LabVIEW