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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Introduction to Indoor Air Quality

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.

Status: Public Health and Disease Prevention
Status: Environmental Engineering
BeginnerCourse12 hours

Featured reviews

SE

4.0Reviewed May 4, 2019

Great course.Good lecturers.Upgraded my skills on IAQ management. Kudos to Coursera.Kudos to Hong Kong School of Science and Technology

SS

5.0Reviewed Apr 4, 2020

This Course will open new angle for Indoor Air Quality concept. It will help you to understand types of pollutants, Viruses, Ventilation System and Comfort level

KC

5.0Reviewed Jul 6, 2018

Excellent course, very well delivered and very informative. I would love to see it expanded even to a 5 or 6 week course to go a bit more in depth on some of the topics.

BS

5.0Reviewed Aug 3, 2020

first of all i would like to say thanks to the IAQ team and Coursera to avail this course. I learned much more informative things related to this course.

RA

5.0Reviewed Jun 18, 2021

This course helped me a lot, especially in my chosen career. It helped me to understand air quality and how to apply proper ventilation. I enjoyed it!

ST

5.0Reviewed Nov 4, 2020

Effective and worthy to give the time. Recommend for environmental scientist & engineer who require to know Indoor Air Quality

AG

4.0Reviewed Jun 4, 2018

Nice course, cleared basis properly, some advanced should be introduced in terms of sampling, monitoring and modelling for indoor air quality.

SP

4.0Reviewed Jul 2, 2020

This course is very useful for learning the basics of indoor air qualities and factors affecting and their measurement instruments.

PT

5.0Reviewed May 28, 2020

It was great experience studying this course,from this I got to know how much indoor air quality is important and what are the contaminant present.

AY

5.0Reviewed May 8, 2019

Great and concise presentation. Quizzes are really helpful. The final exam is a little bit difficult than the quizzes but it is not that to the extent of extremely difficult.

SB

5.0Reviewed Jul 28, 2020

Learned a lot. The topics were well explained. The quizzes helped me in further clarifying what I have learned. Also there are discussion forums where you can discuss and learn a lot

KH

5.0Reviewed Aug 16, 2020

The course introduced IAQ in a manner that no one can do it better. However, I did not understand the concept behind the grading of the post-course survey.

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