Undergraduate Degree Programs

Energy Engineering Minor

Energy is an important subject of current interest that involves many engineering and non-engineering disciplines. Technical courses of engineering content are currently being taught in many departments of the College of Engineering. This minor will identify these courses for the students, and will enable them to get a stronger background and better preparation for professional jobs or higher studies in the area.

Course Work:

Students must take five three-credit courses from the list below to qualify for the minor. At most, one of these five can be a requirement in the student’s major. Some of the courses listed may not be offered every year, and some may have pre-requisites that must be respected. Specifically, many of these courses have Thermodynamics as a pre-requisite. Students outside the departments of aerospace and mechanical engineering or chemical and biomolecular engineering will be expected to complete that pre-requisite before taking the more advanced courses. That pre-requisite may count toward technical elective credits required for the student’s major degree if approved by the student’s degree program.

  • AME 20231, Thermodynamics1,2
  • AME 40401, Energy Technology and Policy
  • AME 40431, Gas Turbines and Propulsion2
  • AME 50531, Intermediate Thermodynamics
  • AME 50532, Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • AME 50535, Energy Systems
  • AME 53631, Molecular Thermodynamics
  • AME 60634, Intermediate Heat Transfer
  • AME 60636, Fundamentals of Combustion
  • AME 60638, Gas Turbine Components
  • ARCH 40411, Environmental Systems
  • CBE 20260, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics1
  • CBE 40435, Electrochemical Energy and Storage
  • CBE 40498, Energy and Climate
  • CBE 40911, Fuel Cells Science & Technology
  • EE 30372, Electric Machinery and Power Systems
  • EE 47007, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
  • EE 47008, Electrical Energy Extraction
  • EE 47010, Alternative Energy Devices and Materials
  • PHYS 30461, Thermal Physics

1 Only one of AME 20231 or CBE 20260 may be counted toward the minor.
2 Aerospace engineering majors take both AME 20231 and AME 40431 to satisfy degree requirements; only one of these may be counted toward the minor.