Clarkson University offers a minor in sustainable energy systems engineering to all students who meet the prerequisite requirements.
Our reliance on energy-rich sources of fossil fuels has enabled growth of modern society, increasing our mobility, industrial growth, domestic comfort, abundant food supply and economic prosperity. This fossil fuel combustion though also generates over three-quarters of the worlds’ carbon dioxide emissions and contributes to other air pollutants that are harmful to public health. Engineers are among the many types of professionals that need to understand the limits of our present energy systems and lead us to a future in which we can continue to provide reasonable energy resources for human quality of life.
This minor emphasizes that all engineering disciplines are necessary to develop and assess technologies to both increase the efficiency of our energy use and advance renewable and alternative energy sources.
Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering Minor Core I
For more information, view the course catalogue for current program requirements, course numbers and credit hours
Course Catalogue
Students are required to complete the following courses:
Energy
- Introduction to Energy Systems
- Thermodynamics or CH260 Thermodynamics & Energy Balances
Capstone Design
Students are required to complete one of the following Capstone Design Course or energy related research:
AE451, CE490, CE491, CE492, CH420, EE412, EE416, EM456, ME446, or ES443
Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering Minor Core II
Students must complete one course from each of the following areas:
Policy Choice
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Economics
- Energy Policy
- Environmental Ethics
- Earth's Dynamic Climate: Science & Impacts
- Industrial Ecology
- Global Climate Change: Science Engineering and Policy
- Sustainability and the Environment
Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering Minor Core III
Students must complete two of the following courses:
- Fundamentals of Building Systems
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Building
- Industrial Ecology (1)
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- Energy Conversion
- Power Systems Engineering
- Alternative Energy Systems
- Global Climate Change: Science Engineering and Policy (1)
- Energy technology as related research project e.g. ES443
- Electrochemistry for Sustainability
- Sustainability Project Experience (2)
- Thermodynamic System Engineering
(1) If this class is not taken as an environmental impacts choice.
(2) Applicability of this class changes annually based on specific class topic.
