Energy Engineering Minor Technical Electives

Twelve credits of technical electives are required for the Energy Engineering Minor. You can select these twelve credits from the courses listed below.

In addition, there may be special topics / new courses offered which are suitable for the requirements of this minor. Contact the Energy Engineering Minor faculty director, Dr. Michael Walker, for information about whether a specific course can serve as a technical elective for the minor.

You may also petition to count up to three credits of an energy-related independent study toward the requirements of the minor. To do so, you must submit a petition to the Energy Engineering Minor committee for review. The petition must include a detailed description of a project you are planning, how it relates to energy engineering, as well as a list of deliverables to be completed during the independent study. Petitions may be submitted to the committee via by emailing the faculty director.

Course NumberCourse Name
AREN 3010Mechanical Systems for Buildings
Circuits for Architectural Engineers
Energy System Modeling and Control
AREN 4110Building Energy Systems Engineering
Sustainable Building Design
Aerospace Heat Transfer
Aerospace Electronics
Metabolic Engineering
CHEN 2120Materials and Energy Balances
Chemical Engineering Heat and Mass Transfer
Energy Fundamentals
CHEN 3670Design of Sustainable Chemical and Material Systems
Solar Cells and Optical Devices for Sustainable Buildings
Electrochemical Engineering
Chemical Process Design
Catalysis and Kinetics
Introduction to Construction
Engineering Geology
Introduction to Circuits and Electronics
Renewable Sources and Efficient Electrical Energy Systems
ECEN 3170Energy Conversion 1
Power Electronics and Photovoltaic Power Systems Laboratory
Principles of Energy Systems and Devices
Introduction to Power Electronics
Renewable Energy and the Future Power Grid
Engineering Economics
Oil and Gas Processing
Interdisciplinary Energy Engineering Projects
Special Topics
ENVS 3621Energy Policy and Society
ENVS/PHYS 3070Energy and the Environment
Circuits for Engineers
Introduction to Mineralogy
Petrology
Introduction to Geochemistry
Introduction to Petroleum Geology
Circuits and Electronics for Mechanical Engineers
Heat Transfer
MCEN 3032Thermodynamics 2
Renewable Fuels, Fuel Cells and Internal Combustion Engines
MCEN 4032/5032Sustainable Energy
Wind Energy and Wind Turbine Design
Introduction to Combustion
Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
MCEN 4228/5228Thermal Systems Analysis and Innovation