The energy engineering minor provides energy-minded students with a foundational understanding of energy technologies and the energy industry, including technological, policy and economic considerations related to conventional and renewable energy systems.
Required courses include a fundamentals-based energy course, an energy policy/society focused course and 12 credits of energy-focused technical elective courses. Elective courses, selected from across the CU campus, allow students to specialize according to their specific interest in the energy field.
For more information, visit the Mechanical Engineering Department's Energy Engineering Minor webpage.
Requirements
The energy engineering minor requires completion of a minimum of 18 credit hours.
A minor in energy engineering is open to undergraduate students rostered in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Grade Requirements
A minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 is required in the courses used to satisfy the minor requirements. Each individual course that is counted toward this minor must be passed with a grade of D- or higher (note that a minimum grade of C- is required in all prerequisite courses).
Residency Requirements
At least 9 credit hours for the minor must be taken through CU Boulder.
Required Courses and Credits
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals Course | 3 | |
| Choose one of the following: | ||
| Energy Efficient Buildings | ||
| Chemical Engineering Material and Energy Balances | ||
| Electromagnetic Energy Conversion 1 | ||
| Thermodynamics 2 | ||
| Policy Course | 3 | |
| Choose one of the following: | ||
| Sustainable Energy | ||
| Energy Policy and Society | ||
| Energy and the Environment | ||
| Electives | 12 | |
| Choose four of the following: 1,2 | ||
| Circuits for Architectural Engineers | ||
| Energy System Modeling and Control | ||
| Sustainable Building Design | ||
| Aerospace Heat Transfer | ||
| Aerospace Electronics | ||
| Metabolic Engineering | ||
| Chemical Engineering Heat and Mass Transfer | ||
| Energy Fundamentals | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Circuits for Engineers | ||
| Introduction to Mineralogy | ||
| Petrology | ||
| Introduction to Geochemistry | ||
| Introduction to Petroleum Geology | ||
| Circuits and Electronics for Mechanical Engineers | ||
| Heat Transfer | ||
| Renewable Fuels, Fuel Cells and Internal Combustion Engines | ||
| Wind Energy and Wind Turbine Design | ||
| Introduction to Combustion | ||
| Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |
| 1 | There may be special topics or other elective courses offered that are suitable for the requirements of this minor. For an up-to-date listing of elective courses, visit the Energy Engineering Minor Technical Electives webpage. Contact the energy engineering minor faculty director for additional course considerations. |
| 2 | Additional courses completed from the Fundamentals and Policy course lists above also satisfy as electives for the energy engineering minor. |