Minor Requirements

Minimum Credits Required: 18

This minor can be completed with a single energy certificate (Track One) approach or a two energy certificate (Track Two) approach.

Track One - Single Energy Certificate Approach

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Required Course
ME 350	Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer	3
or ME 351	Thermodynamics I
Select one Energy Certificate from the following:		9
UG Cert Energy Engineering - Buildings
UG Cert Energy Engineering - Generation
UG Cert Energy Engineering - Vehicles
Complete two courses from the following:		6
ABEN 444	Transport Processes
ABEN 452	Bioenvironmental Systems Design
ABEN 456	Biobased Energy
ABEN 473	Agricultural Power
ECE 431	Power Systems
ECE 432	Computational Methods in Power Systems
ECE 433	Power Systems Design
ME 469	Energy Storage Technology
ME 470	Renewable Energy Technology
ME 481	Fundamentals of Energy Conversion
ME 484	Aerospace Propulsion
ME 487	Internal Combustion Engines
ME 482	Fuel Cell Science and Engineering
ME 485	Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
CM&E 431	Sustainable Design and Construction
ME 397	Fe/Coop Ed/Internship 1
or ABEN 496	Field Experience
or ECE 397	Fe/Coop Ed/Internship
Total Credits		18

Track Two - Two Certificate Approach

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Complete two Energy Engineering Certificates		18
UG Cert Energy Engineering - Generation
UG Cert Energy Engineering - Vehicles
UG Cert Energy Engineering - Buildings
Total Credits		18

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The company or co-op project must be energy or energy-related and should be related to the focus area of the certificate. Approved by the Energy Stewardship Professor is required. The co-op must meet the requirements for 'co-op as a technical elective.'

Program Notes

• Students must be aware of all course per-requisites for courses listed in this program.
• A course applied to one certificate cannot also count toward a second Energy Engineering certificate.