EaSE Certificate Focus Areas

BIOMASS ENERGY RESOURCES

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
ABE 446 Biological Nanoengineering 3 or 4
ABE 488 Bioprocessing Biomass for Fuel 4
ACE 435  Global Agribusiness Management 3
ACE 446 Modeling Applications in Financial Planning 2
ACE 455 International Trade in Food and Agriculture 3
ACE 562 Applied Regression Models I 3
ACE 563 Mathematical Programming for Applied Economics I 2
ATMS 421 Earth Systems Modeling 4
CHBE 471 Biochemical Engineering 3 or 4
CHBE 478 Bioenergy Technology 3
CPSC 415 Bioenergy Crops 3
GEOG 465 Transportation and Sustainability 3 or 4
IB 421 Photosynthesis 3
GEOG 466 Environmental Policy 3 or 4
GEOG 496 Climate & Social Vulnerability 3 or 4
NRES 516 Ecosystem Biogeochemistry 4

CHEMISTRY, CHEMICAL & MATERIALS ENGINEERING

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
CHBE 422 Mass Transfer Operations 4
CHBE 424 Chemical Reaction Engineering 3
CHBE 431 Process Design 4
CHBE 551 Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis 4
CHEM 444 Physical Chemistry II 4
CHEM 524 Electrochemical Methods 4
CHEM 584 Introduction to Materials Chemistry 4
ECE 535 Theory of Semiconductors and Devices 4
MSE 401 Thermodynamics of Materials 3
MSE 403 Synthesis of Materials 3
MSE 445 Corrosion of Metals * 3 or 4
MSE 460 Electronic Materials I 3
MSE 461 Electronic Materials II 3
MSE 487 Materials for Nanotechnology 3 or 4
MSE 488 Optical Materials 3 or 4
MSE 489 Materials Selection for Sustainability 3 or 4
MSE 500 Statistical Thermodynamics of Materials 4
MSE 501 Kinetic Processes in Materials 4
MSE 582 Surface Physics 4
NPRE 470 Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Sources 3

ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERSION, TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
ECE 431 Electric Machinery 4
ECE 464 Power Electronics 3
ECE 486 Control Systems 4
ECE 476 Power System Analysis 3
ECE 515 Control System Theory and Design 4
ECE 530 Large-Scale System Analysis 4
ECE 553 Optimal Control Systems 4
ECE 568 Modeling and Control of Electromechanical Systems 4
ECE 573 Power System Control 4
ECE 576 Power System Dynamics & Stability 4
SE 424 State Space Design for Control 3

ENERGY MARKETS, RELIABILITY, SAFETY & SECURITY

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
ABE 455 Erosion and Sediment Control 2
ACE 410 Energy Economics 3 or 4
ACE 411 Environment and Development 3 or 4
ACE 510 Advanced Natural Resource Economics 4
ACE 562 Applied Regression Models I 2
ACE 563 Mathematical Programming Applications in Economics I 2
ACE 564 Applied Regression Models II 2
ACE 567 Mathematical Programming Applications in Economics II 2
CEE 460 Steel Structures I 3
CEE 462 Steel Structures II * 3 or 4
CEE 463 Reinforced Concrete II * 3 or 4
CEE 557 Groundwater Modeling * 4
CHLH 469 Environmental Health 3 or 4
CS 461 Computer Security I 4
CS 463 Computer Security II 3 or 4
CS 465 User Interface Design 4
CS 565 Human-Computer Interaction 4
NPRE 441 Radiation Protection 4
NPRE 442 Radioactive Waste Management 3
NPRE 457 Safety Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Systems 3 or 4
NPRE 461 Probabilistic Risk Assessment * 3 or 4
NPRE 561 Advanced Risk Analysis for Technological Systems 4
PS 580 Proseminar on International Relations I 4
SE 411 Reliability Engineering 3 or 4
SE 523 Discrete Event Dynamic Systems 3 or 4
SE 524 Data-Bases Systems Modeling 4
SE 530 Multiattribute Decision Making  

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
CEE 433 Water Technology and Policy 3 or 4
CEE 434 Environmental Systems I 3
CEE 437 Water Quality Engineering 3
CEE 440 Fate and Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants 4
CEE 442 Environmental Engineering Principles, Physical 4
CEE 443 Environmental Engineering Principles, Chemical 4
CEE 444 Environmental Engineering Principles, Biological 4
CEE 446 Air Quality Engineering 4
CEE 447 Atmospheric Chemistry 4
CEE 457 Groundwater 3
CEE 493 Sustainable Design of Engineering Technologies 4
CEE 535 Environmental Systems II 4
CEE 537 Water Quality Control Processes I 4
CEE 538 Water Quality Control Processes II 4
CEE 545 Aerosol Sampling and Analysis 4
CEE 592 Sustainable Urban Systems 4
GEOG 466 Environmental Policy 3 or 4
GEOL 470 Introduction to Hydrogeology 4
UP 446 Sustainable Planning Seminar 4
UP 466 Energy, Planning, and the Built Environment 4
UP 480 Sustainable Design Principles 2
UP 546 Land Use Planning and Policy 4

GEOLOGIC ENERGY RESOURCES

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
ABE 456 Land and Water Resources Engineering 3 or 4
AE 529 Viscoelasticity Theory * 4
ATMS 421 Earth Systems Modeling 4
CEE 450 Surface Hydrology * 3
CEE 452 Hydraulic Analysis and Design * 3
CEE 483 Soil Mechanics and Behavior * 4
CEE 484 Applied Soil Mechanics * 3 or 4
CEE 550 Hydroclimatology * 4
CEE 551 Open-channel Hydraulics * 4
CEE 581 Earth Dams * 4
ESE 445 Earth Resources Sustainability 3
GEOG 406 Hydraulic Analysis and Design 4
GEOG 473 Map Compilation and Construction 4
GEOG 479 Advanced Geographic Information Systems 3
GEOG 489 Programming for GIS 4
GEOG 570 Advanced Spatial Analysis 4
GEOL 411 Structural Geology and Tectonics 4
GEOL 440 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 4
GEOL 460 Geochemistry 3
GEOL 470 Introduction to Hydrogeology 4
GEOL 540 Petroleum Geology 4
GEOL 560 Physical Geochemistry 4
GEOL 561 Geomicrobiology & Geochemistry 4
GEOL 562 Isotope Geology 4
GEOL 563 Analytic Geochemistry 4
ME 472 Tribology 3 or 4
NRES 401 Watershed Hydrology 3
TAM 424 Mechanics of Structural Materials 3 or 4
TAM 435 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics 4
TAM 445 Continuum Mechanics 4
TAM 532 Viscous Flow 4

NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
NPRE 402 Nuclear Power Engineering * 3 or 4
NPRE 442 Radioactive Waste Management 3
NPRE 448 Nuclear Systems Engineering and Design 4
NPRE 455 Neutron Diffusion and Transport 4
NPRE 457 Safety Analysis Nuclear Reactor Systems 3 or 4
NPRE 470 Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Sources * 3
NPRE 501 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering 4
NPRE 511 Nuclear Reactor Heat Transfer 4
NPRE 531 Nuclear Materials 4
NPRE 555 Reactor Theory I 4

SOLAR ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
ATMS 449 Biogeochemical Cycles 4
ATMS 507 Climate Dynamics 4
ATMS 512 Clouds and Climate 4
CPSC 431 Plants and Global Change 3
GEOG 496 Climate and Social Vulnerability 3 or 4
IB 421 Integrative Biology 3
ME 432 Fundamentals of Photovoltaics 3 or 4
ME 522 Thermal Radiation * 4
PHYS 402 Light 3 or 4

THERMAL ENERGY SYSTEMS & COMBUSTION ENGINES

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
AE 412 Viscous Flow and Heat Transfer * 4
ABE 466 Engineering Off-Road Vehicles 3
ME 400 Energy Conversion Systems * 3 or 4
ME 401 Refrigeration and Cryodynamics 3 or 4
ME 402 Design of Thermal Systems 3 or 4
ME 403 Internal Combustion Engines 3 or 4
ME 404 Intermediate Thermodynamics * 4
ME 410 Intermediate Gas Dynamics 3 or 4
ME 412 Numerical Thermo-fluid Mechanics 2 to 4
ME 420 Intermediate Heat Transfer 4
ME 501 Combustion Fundamentals * 4
ME 502 Thermal Systems * 4
ME 503 Design of Internal Combustion Engines 4
ME 520 Heat Conduction * 4
ME 521 Convective Heat Transfer 4
NPRE 470 Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Sources 3
UP 430 Urban Transportation Planning 4
UP 466 Energy, Planning, and the Built Environment 4

WIND ENERGY

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours
AE 410 Computational Aerodynamics * 3 or 4
AE 416 Applied Aerodynamics * 3 or 4
AE 420 Finite Element Analysis * 3 or 4
AE 451 Aeroelasticity * 3 or 4
AE 514 Boundary Layer Theory * 4
AE 515 Wing Theory * 4
MSE 456 Mechanics of Composites 3
NPRE 475 Wind Power Systems * 3 or 4
TAM 470 Computational Mechanics 3 or 4

* - indicates course is available online