air conditioning process This course is designed to tackle the fundamentals of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration as they relate to human comfort in residential and industrial design applications. The main focus of the course will be to examine the fundamental criteria involved in sizing and design of HVAC systems as well as to investigate the equipment used to satisfy the design criteria. The culmination part of the course is the design of air conditioning and ventilation of a commercial or residential building as a final project or case study.