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Major: Bachelor of Science
MajorOverview
The four-year program leading to the BS degree provides a foundation for careers in many facets of the energy industry. The curriculum includes basic science and engineering courses that provide sufficient depth for a broad spectrum of energy, engineering, and environmental careers including sustainability.
One of the program’s goals is to provide experience integrating the skills developed in individual courses to address a significant design problem. In the Senior Project and Seminar in Energy Science and Engineering, taken in the senior year, student teams identify and propose technical solutions for an energy-resource-related problem of current interest.
The Energy Science and Engineering undergraduate curriculum is designed to prepare students for participation in the energy industry or for graduate studies while providing requisite skills to evolve as the energy landscape shifts over the next half-century. The program provides a background in mathematics, basic sciences, and engineering fundamentals such as mass and heat transfer in porous media ranging from batteries to geothermal resources. In addition, the curriculum is structured with a flexibility that allows students to explore energy topics of particular individual interest and to study abroad.
