COMBINING THE ATC: With The FPT.

The author discusses their group's approach in designing heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and automatic temperature controls systems using the combined sequence-FPT format. According to him, the approach enables the engineer to think through the system concept earlier in the project to clearly understand the design. He noted that it is better to have error in the paper early in the design than to have a problem with the system existing at zero degrees Fahrenheit.