Undergraduate Courses
- EBF 200 - Introduction to Energy and Earth Sciences Economics: The course explores resource use decisions and their impact on local, national, and global development, addressing the challenges and opportunities of increasing energy demand and limited resources in the 21st century through economic analysis and real-world examples.
- EBF 301 - Global Finance for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries: This course introduces fundamental concepts of financial management and illustrate their global applications.
- EBF 304W - Global Management for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries: This course aims to teach students how to structure complex environmental and energy problems involving business decisions by developing analytical tools such as benefit-cost analysis, risk assessment, and decision-making under uncertainty.
- EBF 401 - Strategic Corporate Finance for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries: This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of financial management tools, including time value of money, risk-return trade-offs, CAPM, debt and equity valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital, cash flow estimation, real and financial options, company valuation, and capital structure decisions.
- EBF 402 - Energy Law and Contracts: This course covers energy law and contracts related to acquiring property rights for exploration and drilling of energy sources, including ownership rights, land types, the law of capture, real estate law, oil and gas leases, environmental regulation, regulatory compliance, corporate liability, and environmental due diligence.
- EBF 404W - The Great Energy Transition: Law, Economics, and New Frontiers: This course examines the transformation of the U.S. energy sector through evolving policies, market deregulation, shale gas development, and renewable energy generation, with a focus on lower carbon emissions, and aims to prepare students to engage with energy topics from a law, policy, and economics perspective.
- EBF 473 - Risk Management in Energy Industries: This course focuses on teaching quantitative techniques for financial risk management, with a particular emphasis on using financial instruments to hedge against threats to financial viability from weather-related risks, such as fluctuations in commodity prices, through the use of options and futures.
- EBF 483 - Introduction to Electricity Markets: This course covers the structure and regulation of the electricity industry, focusing on the U.S. market with an emphasis on events in the Mid-Atlantic region, discussing cost models, rate of return regulation, electricity restructuring, Locational Marginal Pricing, financial risk management, and market power mitigation.
- EBF 484 - Energy Economics: This course examines how wholesale energy markets and related financial markets work. Topics include the growing interdependence of natural gas and electric systems, and the trading of physical and financial contracts for oil, natural gas and electricity.
- EGEE 101 - Energy and the Environment: Energy and the Environment explores energy utilization, technological development, resources, conversion, and consequences on the environment, while also discussing future energy alternatives and their impact on global climate change, providing students with the knowledge to make informed decisions and evaluate energy-related concerns in society.
- EGEE 102 - Energy Conservation for Environmental Protection: This course provides essential knowledge on energy efficiency and principles of energy conversion devices to help individuals make environmentally-responsible choices in their daily lives.
- EGEE 110N - Environmental Health and Safety Science: This course covers the applied field of environmental health and safety, including engineering, science, psychology, and management components, to provide students with an understanding of how science and engineering principles are applied to common hazards encountered in daily life.
- EGEE 120 - Oil: International Evolution: This course explores the historical, economic, and strategic importance of oil, including its impact on global relations, domestic politics, and international terrorism, with a focus on the evolution of the oil industry, the formation of OPEC, and the development of oil reserves in deep water and Africa.
- EGEE 302 - Principles of Energy Engineering: This course covers basic engineering calculations and mathematical methodologies related to material and energy balances, reaction rates, and energy transformations in energy systems, with a focus on principles of chemistry, physics, and mathematics applied to energy and fuels.
- EGEE 304 - Heat and Mass Transfer: This course introduces the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer, emphasizing conduction, convection, radiation, and diffusion mass transfer in energy engineering systems, with a focus on solving heat transfer problems and understanding the design and operation of heat exchangers in various energy systems.
- EGEE 401 - Energy in a Changing World: This course addresses the transition of energy due to increased demand and environmental pressures, evaluating existing infrastructure, technologies, and challenges in meeting energy demands while considering legislative, environmental, and international factors.
- EGEE 405 - Renewable Energy in Electricity Markets: This course covers the structure and economics of the US power grid, focusing on the role of renewable generation and its impact on transmission, pricing, challenges, and future drivers in the marketplace through analysis methods and case studies.
- EGEE 411W - Energy Science and Engineering Lab: A comprehensive introduction to classic and modern laboratory skills and experimentation of relevance to energy science and engineering practice.
- EGEE 420 - Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells covers the fundamental principles of electrochemical engineering, hydrogen production and storage, and the design and application of various fuel cells, with a focus on understanding and analyzing fuel cell systems and differentiating between types of fuel cells.
- EGEE 430 - Introduction to Combustion: Introduction to combustion science covering concepts related to laminar and turbulent premixed and nonpremixed combustion, including combustion kinetics, thermochemistry, flame dynamics, stability, and pollutant formation, with applications to propulsion and stationary systems.
- EGEE 437 - Design of Solar Energy Conversion Systems: This course provides a comprehensive overview of solar energy conversion, covering photovoltaic and solar thermal systems, principles of solar radiation, PV system design, solar thermal engineering calculations, and thermal power plants for electricity generation.
- EGEE 438 - Wind and Hydropower Energy Conversion: This course covers sustainability and renewable energy, emphasizing wind and hydrokinetic resources, technology, economics, and environmental impacts, with team projects, papers, presentations, and field trips.
- EGEE 439 - Alternative Fuels from Biomass Sources: This course will examine the chemistry of technologies of bio-based sources for power generation and transportation fuels.
- EGEE 441 - Electrochemical Engineering Fundamentals: EGEE 441 covers the fundamental principles of electrochemistry and their applications in fuel cells, batteries, and photovoltaics, with a focus on efficiency analysis and performance criteria, and includes a laboratory demonstration of an electrochemical converter.
- EGEE 451 - Energy Conversion Processes: This course focuses on the principles of chemical and nuclear reactions in energy conversion processes, including the conversion of fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and biomass into transportation fuels and electricity, with an emphasis on practical applications and case studies.
- EGEE 464W - Energy Design Project: A team and capstone design project on an industrial energy-related problem.
- EGEE 470 - Air Pollutants from Combustion Sources: Generation of pollutants in combustion chambers; reduction by combustion control; pre- and post-combustion treatment of fuels and effluents.
- EME 210 - Data Analytics for Energy Systems: This course teaches introductory statistics and coding skills through simulation-based inference, focusing on data from the energy industry and sustainability challenges, covering data manipulation, visualization, hypothesis testing, regression, neural networks, random forests, and basic probability.
- EME 301 - Thermodynamics in Energy and Mineral Engineering: Treatment of classical thermodynamics targeted to the needs of students in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering.
- EME 303 - Fluid Mechanics in Energy and Mineral Engineering: Treatment of fluid mechanics targeted to the needs of students in the Department of EME.
- EME 407 - Electrochemical Energy Storage: Electrochemical concepts in energy storage devices, cell construction and materials involved in batteries and capacitors, electrochemical testing methods and applications.
- EME 432 - Energy Policy: Analysis, formulation, implementation, and impacts of energy-related policies, regulations, and initiatives.
- EME 444 - Global Energy Enterprise: Global Energy Enterprise offers a comprehensive study of the influence of public and private nonmarket actors on contemporary energy markets, including case studies and analysis of energy policies, technical, environmental, economic, and sociopolitical aspects of energy sources, and international energy and policy regimes.
- EME 450 - Energy Crisis Leadership: Energy Crisis Leadership is an interactive class that uses case studies and guest speakers to prepare students to lead in high-pressure environments in the energy and natural resource industries, culminating in a competition to formulate a crisis management plan.
- EME 460 - Geo-resource Evaluation and Investment Analysis: The course covers engineering evaluation of geo-resources, present value and rate of return analysis, mineral property and reserve estimation, and cost estimation and engineering economy concepts applied to geo-resources including energy and minerals.
- EME 466 - Energy and Sustainability in Society: EME 466 is a capstone course for Energy and Sustainability Policy majors where students work on individual projects addressing local sustainability issues, focusing on policy solutions.
- EMSC 240N - Energy and Sustainability in Contemporary Society: This course covers how concepts related to energy or sustainability appear in popular media and culture through an exploration of contemporary films, writings, and other media.
- EMSC 302 - Orientation to the Energy and Sustainability Policy Program: This is a one credit required orientation course for students in the ESPBA and ESPBS majors to introduce them to the university, department, and major.
- ENVSE 400 - Safety Engineering: An introduction to the application of engineering principles for the promotion of safety for workers, consumers, and the public.
- ENVSE 404W - Surface and Interfacial Phenomena in Environmental Systems: Principles underlying surface and interfacial phenomena with application to mineral processing and environmental systems.
- ENVSE 406 - Sampling and Monitoring of the Geo-Environment: Issues of sampling, analysis, monitoring and control techniques for effective environmental management in the extractive industries.
- ENVSE 408 - Contaminant Hydrology: Mobility of contaminants in aquifers; multiphase flow, transport, retardation and attenuation, vapor mobility, aquifer characterization, mathematical models and aquifer remediation.
- ENVSE 412 - Environmental Systems Engineering Laboratory: A laboratory study of the principles involved in the characterization and remediation of process wastes with an emphasis on physical separations.
- ENVSE 427 - Pollution Control in the Process Industries: This course teaches design principles for unit operations in environmental pollution control, focusing on applying engineering, science, and mathematics principles to solve complex problems and develop engineering design solutions that consider various factors.
- ENVSE 440 - Industrial Ventilation for Contaminant Control: Ventilation system design and analysis for control of industrial contaminants; measurements, dilution and local exhaust ventilation strategies; laboratory demonstrations included.
- ENVSE 450 - Environmental Health and Safety: Overview of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, industrial hygiene, environmental laws, and engineering approaches to protecting workers and the environment.
- ENVSE 457 - Industrial Hygiene Measurements: This course covers industrial hygiene, focusing on methods for evaluating and controlling workplace exposure to chemical, physical, and biological hazards using sampling, analysis, and statistical tools.
- ENVSE 470 - Engineering Risk Analysis: Quantitative methods of systems analysis, probabilistic risk and reliability analysis, as well cost-benefit, and value of information analysis.
- ENVSE 480 - Environmental Systems Engineering Process Design: Culminating design experience where they develop skills in managing and executing engineering design projects focusing on treatment and remediation processes in various industries, such as energy and mineral resources, to address environmental challenges.
- FSC 431 - The Chemistry of Fuels: The course covers the nature, properties, and analysis of fossil fuels, including their formation, composition, refining, and use as energy sources and chemical feedstocks, with a focus on petroleum, natural gas, coal, and liquid transportation fuels, and is required for the Energy Engineering Major.
- FSC 432 - Petroleum Processing: This course examines petroleum refining and natural gas processing, focusing on crude oil properties, refining objectives, market drivers, process integration, and environmental regulations.
- MNG 230 - Introduction to Mining Engineering: Examination, development, and exploitation of mineral deposits; mining methods; unit operations; mining equipment; fundamentals of explosives.
- MNG 331 - Rock Mechanics: This course covers experimental stress analysis, rock properties, and mine design, with field applications in engineering and geoscience, culminating in a technical paper and lab sessions.
- MNG 401 - Introduction to Mining Operations: This course introduces mining operations, exploring the role of minerals, the mining industry’s structure, mine development stages, and selecting appropriate mining methods based on geological and deposit conditions.
- MNG 404 - Mine Materials Handling Systems: This course provides students with the basic principles and methodology involved in design of material handling systems used in the mining industry.
- MNG 410 - Underground Mining: This course covers underground mine design, extraction techniques, and description of auxiliary operations as they relate to the mining methods.
- MNG 411 - Mine Systems Engineering: This course is aimed at applying operations research and systems methods for decision making in mine operations to improve productivity.
- MNG 412 - Mineral Property Evaluation: This course covers resource assessment in mining using geostatistics and engineering economy concepts. Students learn exploration techniques, reserve evaluation methods, project reporting, financial analysis, and risk assessment for informed decision-making in mineral development
- MNG 422 - Mine Ventilation and Air Conditioning: This course provides a thorough understanding and working knowledge of the health, safety, legal, economic, and reliability aspects of mine ventilation and air conditioning systems and their design and analysis.
- MNG 441 - Surface Mining Systems and Design: Design of surface mining for non-coal and coal minerals, emphasis on open pit, quarry and surface mining planning parameters: unit operations, systems, haul roads, draglines, spoil stability, reclamation, legal requirements, and health and safety.
- MNG 451W - Mining Engineering Project: Independent and integrative design and report of specific mine evaluation, layout, equipment selection, environmental control, permitting, and financial analysis.
- MNPR 301 - Elements of Mineral Processing: Introduction to mineral process engineering. Sampling, sizing, comminution, physical and chemical processes, applications to industrial practice. Pollution control.
- MNPR 401 - Mineral Process Engineering: Unit operations for processing particulate materials: comminution, screening, classification, slurry pumping, thickening, filtration, etc.; application to mineral processing plant design.
- MNPR 413 - Mineral Processing Laboratory: A laboratory study of the chemical and physical principles involved in practical mineral processing operations.
- MNPR 426 - Aqueous Processing: A study of the chemical and engineering principles pertinent to metal processing in aqueous systems: hydrometallurgical extraction, plating, materials preparation
- PNG 301 - Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering: This course covers oil and gas extraction system design, including key petroleum engineering disciplines, reservoir types, industry history, and introductory statistics, and programming.
- PNG 405 - Rock and Fluid Properties: This course introduces students to basic reservoir rock and fluid properties, including porosity, permeability, multi-phase flow, and fluid behavior.
- PNG 406 - Rock and Fluid Laboratory: Experimental study of oil reservoir rocks and fluids; their interrelation applied to petroleum engineering.
- PNG 410 - Applied Reservoir Engineering: This course teaches reservoir performance analysis using material balance and flow equations, focusing on drive mechanisms and various reservoir types, including shale, dry gas, gas condensate, and undersaturated oil.
- PNG 411 - Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction: Introduction to the design and implementation of the systems used in the extraction of oil and gas. Not intended for petroleum and natural gas engineering majors.
- PNG 420 - Applied Reservoir Analysis and Secondary Recovery: This course addresses water influx and water flooding in petroleum engineering, utilizing analytical and numerical methods to understand and predict cases, as well as studying displacement theory and practice with various geometrical patterns and strategies for selecting patterns for special cases.
- PNG 425 - Principles of Well Testing and Evaluation: This course covers the mathematical foundations and practical applications of pressure analysis, including well testing techniques, formation parameter estimation, pressure transient problem solving, error sources and assumptions, and well test evaluation for tight and conventional reservoirs.
- PNG 430 - Reservoir Modeling: This course covers hydrocarbon reservoir simulation, including numerical methods, flow modeling, and advanced techniques like black-oil and compositional modeling.
- PNG 440W - Formation Evaluation: This course covers the interpretation of wireline logs for characterizing oil and gas reservoir formations, quantifying hydrocarbon resources, understanding well log tools and their physical principles, and developing technical writing skills through written analyses of field data.
- PNG 450 - Drilling Engineering: This course focuses on designing and analyzing oil-field drilling operations, covering drilling fluids, hydraulics, casing, bit design, and directional well techniques for resource optimization.
- PNG 451 - Drilling Laboratory: This lab is a hands-on course that complements PNG 450 by teaching students well-control procedures, drilling fluid properties measurement, and practical problem-solving skills using state-of-the-art equipment in oil and gas.
- PNG 458 - Assessment, Classification, and Reporting of Reserves and Resources: Industry professionals teach how to define and estimate reserves.
- PNG 475 - Production and Completions Engineering: The course covers single and multi-phase flow in porous media and pipes, requiring a basic understanding of fluid flow and stress concepts, with a focus on compressibility and stress analysis in rock, tubing and casing design, and well construction.
- PNG 480 - Surface Production Engineering: This course covers the analysis and evaluation of various processes and operations involved in the extraction, treatment, and transportation of reservoir fluids to market, with a focus on equipment design and operational principles to ensure efficient and environmentally responsible handling of petroleum production fluids.
- PNG 482 - Production Engineering Laboratory: This laboratory course focuses on measuring and analyzing the physical and chemical properties of hydrocarbon fluid systems in a production environment, providing students with hands-on experience in conducting experiments, operating equipment, and writing technical reports to optimize extraction, treatment, and delivery rates of hydrocarbons.
- PNG 488 - Unconventional Wells: The course covers unconventional reservoir types, natural fracture characterization, drilling and completion techniques, hydraulic fracturing design, fracture assessment, and well productivity analysis in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.
- PNG 490 - Petroleum Engineering Capstone Design: This course integrates petroleum and natural gas engineering concepts into project design, utilizing knowledge gained from previous courses and focusing on the interpretation of field data, use of software, economic analysis, and risk analysis in team-based projects.
Graduate Courses
- EME 501 - Design Under Uncertainty in Energy and Mineral Systems: This class covers a variety of tools for evaluating energy projects, technologies, and systems, including project evaluation methods, decision-making under uncertainty, optimization techniques, and economics/markets/regulation concepts.
- EME 504 - Foundations in Sustainability Systems: Theoretical background of sustainability issues and studies of sustainability systems.
- EME 511 - Interfacial Physical-Chemical Systems, Processes, and Measurements: The study of interfaces between phases in engineering processes is important for understanding transport, reaction, and accumulation phenomena, with applications in energy conversion, mineral extraction, and oil recovery, drawing on physical and interfacial chemistry principles to address various engineering and applied science needs.
- EME 521 - Mathematical Modeling of Energy and Mineral Systems: This class focuses on modeling methods for physical and chemical phenomena in energy and mineral engineering systems, covering solid and fluid systems with reactive components using finite element and other continuum methods, and includes developing programming modules for interactive physical system models.
- EME 523 - Stochastic Optimization Methods of Energy and Environmental Systems: This course focuses on the theory and application of computational methods for stochastic simulation and optimization in various engineering and economic fields, covering topics such as Monte Carlo simulation, Markov Chains, Dynamic Programming, and Stochastic Programming.
- EME 524 - Machine Learning for Energy and Mineral Engineering Problems: This course introduces the application of machine learning algorithms in energy and mineral engineering, focusing on regression, classification, design optimization, and risk analysis for students with a statistics background but no prior machine learning experience.
- EME 531 - Thermodynamics of Energy and Mineral Systems: This course examines the interplay between physicochemical, kinetic, and transport processes through irreversible thermodynamics, highlighting phenomena such as the Seebeck, Peltier, and Soret effects, alongside concepts like bifurcation, self-organization, and dissipative structures, with applications extending to natural systems and economic dynamics.
- EME 541 - Electrochemical Science and Engineering Fundamentals: EME 541 covers the basic principles of electrochemical science and engineering, emphasizing thermodynamics and kinetics, and their application in various industrial processes.
- EME 551 - Safety and Environmental Risk Analysis for Energy and Mineral Engineering Systems: This course emphasizes integrating environmental health, safety, and risk management into energy and mineral engineering using quantitative analysis and mitigation strategies.
- EME 570 - Catalytic Materials: This course covers the preparation and characterization of solid catalytic materials and explores the relationships between surface, defect, and electronic properties and catalytic activity, with a focus on various materials and their applications in industries for environmental protection.
- EME 589 - Management and Design of Renewable Energy and Sustainability Systems: This course provides hands-on experience managing interdisciplinary teams to solve complex renewable energy and sustainability challenges, incorporating project management, leadership, and techno-economic analysis.
- EME 801 - Energy Markets, Policy, and Regulation: Structure and function of energy markets; existing and emerging environmental regulations; decision-making by energy companies.
- EME 802 - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems: An overview of renewable energy technologies and sustainable energy system analysis.
- EME 803 - Applied Energy Policy: Provides in-depth exploration of energy policy development, implementation, and assessment at multiple governmental and corporate scales with emphasis on energy markets.
- EME 805 - Renewable Energy and Nonmarket Enterprise: Industry perspective on the resources, technologies, engineering approaches and externalities involved in deploying renewable energy businesses profitably and sustainably.
- EME 807 - Technologies for Sustainability Systems: This course examines strategies and applications of sustainable technologies in manufacturing, energy, water, transportation, food, and building systems.
- EME 810 - Solar Resource Assessment and Economics: Methods, economic criteria, and meteorological background for assessing the solar resource with respect to solar energy conversion technologies.
- EME 812 - Utility Solar Power and Concentration: Technical and theoretical background for utility scale solar energy conversion technologies to generate electric power.
- FSC 503 - Analytical Methods in Fuel Science: Analytical Methods in Fuel Science emphasizes analytical and characterization methods applied to fuel processing, combustion, and conversion, focusing on techniques such as chromatography and spectrometry with discussions on data analysis and error management.
- FSC 504 - Problems in Fuels Engineering: A problem-based, active learning course on the utilization of fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- FSC 506 - Carbon Reactions: Current approaches to heterogeneous reactions in combustion and gasification of carbonaceous solids, including those derived from coal and petroleum sources.
- MNG 541 - Surface Mine Equipment Selection Analysis: Design analysis and selection criteria for principal surface mine equipment, their interaction in operation, and auxiliary equipment requirements.
- MNPR 505 - Particle Separation: This course covers fundamentals and state-of-the-art techniques in particle separations for recovery of minerals and elements from primary and secondary sources, including topics such as data evaluation, gravity concentration, flotation, dry separations, dewatering techniques, classifications, magnetics, clarification, and recycling.
- PNG 501 - Flow in Porous Media: This course teaches students essential skills for analyzing fluid flow in porous media for reservoir engineering, focusing on petrophysical properties, characterization methods, equation formulation, and analytical solutions for steady-state flow problems.
- PNG 502 - Coupled Flow and Deformation in Porous Media: This course covers the study of unsteady problems in porous media, focusing on continuum mechanics formulation, mathematical solution techniques, and advanced modeling tools such as dual-continuum method and porochemoelasticity.
- PNG 512 - Numerical Reservoir Simulation: Mathematical analysis of complex reservoir behavior and combination drives; numerical methods for the solution of behavior equations; recent developments.
- PNG 518 - Design of Miscible Recovery Projects: Theory and design of miscible methods of oil recovery, current field applications, including hydrocarbon, CO2, micellar/polymer, alkaline, and inert gas.
- PNG 520 - Thermodynamics of Hydrocarbon Fluids: Thermodynamic science applied to hydrocarbon mixtures and problems in petroleum and natural gas engineering. General topics include study of phase diagrams of hydrocarbon fluids and application of thermodynamic rigor to phase equilibrium problems in the petroleum and natural gas industry.
- PNG 526 - Well Stimulation: Causes and identification of oil and gas wells with low productivity and or recovery; design and evaluation of well stimulation methods.
- PNG 555 - Unconventional Resources Analysis: This course delves into the technical aspects of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to explore, characterize, estimate reserves, and analyze the performance of these resources in response to the increasing global demand for energy.
- PNG 577 - Production and Completions Engineering: This course provides a comprehensive overview of production engineering in the petroleum and natural gas industry, focusing on well deliverability, well performance diagnosis, and the role of production engineers in well design, stimulation, and artificial lift operations.