Energy Engineering, Minor

Program Code: ENENG_UMNR

Program Description

The minor in Energy Engineering is designed to provide students in engineering, science, and energy business and finance (EBF) with additional courses, exposure, and experiences to the principles and applications of energy engineering. Courses available to students include thermal sciences; petroleum and natural gas processing; renewable/sustainable energy; chemistry of fuels; electrochemical, chemical, and nuclear energy conversion processes; physical processes in energy engineering; air pollution; and green engineering and environmental compliance. As a result, the selection of this minor can provide additional career options for students in a wide range of offerings at Penn State.

What is Energy Engineering?

Energy engineers are equipped with required engineering knowledge and skills needed to solve problems in the production, processing, storage, distribution, and utilization of energy. Energy processes include natural resources, such as the extraction of oil and gas, as well as from renewable or sustainable sources of energy, including biofuels, hydro, wind, and solar power.

You Might Like This Program If...

  • You aspire to be a lifelong learner, problem solver, and leader in the energy industry.
  • You excel at math, science, and engineering and seek a broad overview of energy fields.
  • You are interested in a well-rounded education in all facets of the energy market, including renewable energy.

Program Requirements

Requirement Credits
Requirements for the Minor 18

Requirements for the Minor

A grade of C or better is required for all courses in the minor, as specified by Senate Policy 59-10. In addition, at least six credits of the minor must be unique from the prescribed courses required by a student's major(s).

Additional Courses
Additional Courses: Require a grade of C or better
Select 9 credits of the following:9
Principles of Energy Engineering
Heat and Mass Transfer
Energy Science and Engineering Lab
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Introduction to Combustion
Thermodynamics in Energy and Mineral Engineering
Select 9 credits of the following:9
EGEE 433
Design of Solar Energy Conversion Systems
Wind and Hydropower Energy Conversion
Electrochemical Engineering Fundamentals
Energy Conversion Processes
Energy Design Project
Air Pollutants from Combustion Sources
The Chemistry of Fuels
Petroleum Processing

Academic Advising

The objectives of the university's academic advising program are to help advisees identify and achieve their academic goals, to promote their intellectual discovery, and to encourage students to take advantage of both in-and out-of class educational opportunities in order that they become self-directed learners and decision makers.

Both advisers and advisees share responsibility for making the advising relationship succeed. By encouraging their advisees to become engaged in their education, to meet their educational goals, and to develop the habit of learning, advisers assume a significant educational role. The advisee's unit of enrollment will provide each advisee with a primary academic adviser, the information needed to plan the chosen program of study, and referrals to other specialized resources.

READ SENATE POLICY 32-00: ADVISING POLICY

University Park

Eugene Morgan
Program Chair, Energy Engineering
115 Hosler Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-1642
eum19@psu.edu

Joanna Maatta
Academic Adviser
101 Hosler Building
University Park, PA 16802
jum27@psu.edu

Contact

University Park

JOHN AND WILLIE LEONE FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND MINERAL ENGINEERING
113 Hosler Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-3437
eme@ems.psu.edu

https://www.eme.psu.edu