Contact: My name is Edward Brzezowski, with my background as a licensed professional engineer, I am focused on mechanical engineering, specializing in the area of buildings, energy and control systems. When I started at the County College of Morris for a new program called “MechTech” back in 1973 the first semester we used slide rulers. During the second semester calculators became available and I became a HP RPN user from that point on, even with the emulator I continue to use on my iPhone today. While in college I became interested in energy, and heat transfer, along the way the first microcomputers started to arrive. I purchased my first one, an Exidy Sorcerer around 1978-79. I continued to use that system while a graduate research assistant at NJIT to create a graphical “f-chart“, hour-by-hour simulation of a residential solar domestic hot water system, I received credit for an entire semester from a couple of nights of hard work.
Since that time and throughout my career I’ve applied computers to my work on numerous projects and ideas. One common theme in the background is what I envisioned as EnergyLab. It has taken various forms over time from table top and mobile energy simulators, helping startup companies, to using “Buildings as Learning Tools” for Science, Math, Engineering and Technology for all life long learners.
Background/Experience: One of the first things as I started to ramp up this effort was a way to document my work in a journal since it will cover many areas to implement. Ironically I still have spiral and 3 ring design and construction note books that I periodically reference. This includes developing and using a Epson HX20 as a data acquisition system to document the #2 fuel oil use minute-by-minute before, during a residential 2 family rehab in 1983. I saw first hand hourly fuel uses, impact of equipment sizing, insulation, new windows, heat circulating fireplaces and results from testing one of the first MagicStat (1983) adaptive control thermostats.
