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Graduate Courses in Energy and the Environment

Graduate Courses

Energy Efficiency

  • ARC 514 Environmental Engineering of Buildings – Part I (fall)
  • ARC 515 Environmental Engineering of Buildings – Part II (spring)
  • ARC 519 Climate Change, Adaptation and Urban Design
  • ARC 521 Elemental Building Function
  • CEE 518/ENV 518 Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis
  • ECE 581/ENE 581 Advanced Power Electronics

Renewable Energy

  • CEE 566 Wind Engineering and Structural Dynamics
  • ECE 557/ENE 557 Solar Cells: Physics, Materials, and Technology

Atmospheric, Terrestrial, and Oceanic Processes

  • AOS 527/GEO 527 Atmospheric Radiactive Transfer (fall)
  • AOS 537/GEO 537 Atmospheric Chemistry (spring)
  • AOS 547 Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Convection (spring)
  • AOS 571 Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (fall)
  • AOS 572 Atmospheric and Oceanic Wave Dynamics (spring)
  • AOS 573 Physical Oceanography (spring)
  • AOS 575 Numerical Prediction of the Atmosphere and Ocean (fall)
  • AOS 578/GEO 578 Chemical Oceanography
  • CEE 571 Environmental Chemistry 
  • CEE 576 Water Quality Modeling and Analysis (spring)
  • CEE 586 Physical Hydrology (spring)
  • CEE 588 Boundary Layer Meteorology (spring)
  • CEE 593/AOS 593 Aerosol Chemistry and Physics (fall)
  • CEE 599 Special Topics in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources – Environmental Field Design and Sampling (fall), Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization (spring)
  • GEO 505 Fundamentals of the Geosciences I (spring)
  • GEO 506 Fundamentals of the Geosciences II (fall)
  • GEO 523/CEE 572 Geomicrobiology
  • GEO 538 Paleoclimatology

Social Science of Energy and Environment

  • ENE 549/SPI 583 Integrated Assessment Modeling for Climate Policy Making (fall)
  • ENE 522/MAE 533 Introduction to the Electricity Sector-Engineering, Economics, and Regulation (spring)
  • ORF 455/ENE 455 Energy and Commodity Markets (fall)
  • SPI 581C Topics in Economics – Energy Economics (fall)
  • SPI 594R Topics in Policy Analysis (half term): Behavioral Science in Environmental Policy

Nuclear Energy

  • AST 551/MAE 525 General Plasma Physics I (fall)
  • AST 555 Fusion Plasmas & Plasma Diagnostics
  • AST 558 Seminar in Plasma Physics (fall)
  • PHY 529 High-Energy Physics (spring)

Clean, Efficient Fuel Combustion

  • MAE 527 Physics of Gases (spring)
  • MAE 531/ENE 531 Combustion
  • MAE 532 Combustion Theory (spring)

Energy Systems Analysis

  • ENE 570 Advanced Optimization Methods for Energy Systems Engineering
  • MAE 573/ENE 539 Applied Optimization for Energy Systems Engineering (fall)

Green Technology

  • CEE 564/ENE 564 Biology, Electrochemistry and Technology
  • ECE 545 Electronic Devices
  • ENE 504/CEE 504 Membrane Separations for Energy and the Environment
  • ENE 506/CEE 506/CBE 566/MAE 536/MSE 586 Synchrotron and Neutron Studies of Materials
  • MAE 518/ARC 516/ENE 528 Virtual and Augmented Reality for Scientists, Engineers, and Architects
  • MAE 538/ENE 538 Electrochemical Engineering for Decarbonizing Energy Systems