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Clean Energy Courses
Note: Last updated Spring 2007, please check the course catalog for up-to-date information
AT555 Introduction to Air Pollution (Kreidenweis, Collett)
Introduction to sources, sinks, effects, and control of air pollution. Addresses emissions from various energy (and other) sources.
AT560 Air Pollution Measurement (Collett)
Laboratory class illustrating techniques for measuring air pollution. Addresses common pollutants emitted by energy generation processes.
AT716 Air Quality Characterization (Collett)
Team project class emphasizing coordinated student measurement of regional air pollution. Topic changes from offering to offering. Past topics have included emissions from vehicle exhaust and from biomass combustion.
BN 496 Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (Hudnut)
This course is based on the premise that entrepreneurship is a positive force for building social, environmental and financial value. It will focus on two emerging business trends: social entrepreneurship and sustainability. During the course, students will study cases on social entrepreneurship (both domestic and in the developing world), examine the best opportunities for private sector activity, examine non-profit and for-profit approaches, and investigate tools such as microcredit loans which enable social entrepreneurship. The course will also examine cases where companies have sought to exploit business opportunities that result from global social and environmental trends.
BN 667 Global Social Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Introduction to global challenges of poverty, environmental degradation, and public health and the role of entrepreneurial management in private and public sector approaches.
BN 668 Development of Social Sustainable Enterprises
Early stages of a new venture, including creation of business plan. Additional study of social entrepreneurship and sustainable business strategies.
BG 669 Sustainable Enterprise Funding and Evaluation
Funding social and sustainable enterprises. Grant writing, venture philanthropy, angel investors, and venture capital. Project development, evaluation, and execution.
(Note: BN667 – BG669 will be for students in the GSSE program only.)
BZ 692 Seminar. Chloroplast Biology (Pilon)
This is a seminar class with lectures added. We explore chloroplast biology including mechanisms of energy conversion in photosynthesis (photosynthetic electron transport) and carbon fixation.
C 651B Special Topics: Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (Finke)
This class explores the 30 elements necessary for life, with an emphasis on the inorganic, non-C,O,H,N elements and their remarkable chemistries, cofactors and metalloproteins. Included in the class are studies of Nature's systems of harvesting photons and converting those into storable energy, including Photosystem II, the OEC (oxygen evolving, 4-Mn center) and hydrogenases..
C 565 Inorganic Kinetics and Mechanism (Finke)
Central to both life itself as well as our energy future is chemical catalysis. Catalysis is, in turn and by definition, a "wholly kinetic phenomenon". This class explores kinetics and mechanism with an emphasis on inorganic catalysts and related systems. The course's goal is to provide the student with the fundamental knowledge necessary to understand and be able to exploit chemical catalysis for our energy future, environmental preservation and clean up, and related modern problems and topics.
EH726 Aerosols and Occupational Health (Volckens)
Course focuses on aerosal technology and applications in engineering and atmospheric sciences.
HP 192 Energy and Society (Parkinson)
Cheap and abundant energy, mostly based on non-renewable fossil fuels, is the basis for our high standard of living. However, our current pattern of energy use is not sustainable from both a supply and environmental perspective. In this seminar, we will discuss the laws of thermodynamics that govern the conversion and conservation and energy. We will then discuss mankind’s past, present and future sources of energy. The technical and political problems associated with societies conversion to renewable energy resources will then be covered.
IU 198 Splitting Water With Sunlight: Towards A Renewable Energy Economy (Parkinson)
This course seeks to introduce incoming freshmen chemistry majors to the excitement of modern chemical research. Students will be first introduced to the basic concepts of chemical research and the current and future state of energy use in the world and its potential effect on the Earth's climate. The students will then work on a research project focused on discovering materials that are capable of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using only sunlight. Hydrogen is a clean fuel that, when its stored energy is recovered, results in only water being discharged into the environment.
IU 193 Electricity From The Sun (Sites)
Several aspects of direct conversion of sunlight to electricity on a significant scale will be explored. These will include the amount of solar energy available, the basic concepts of photovoltaic power generation, reasonable cost estimates, comparisons with other energy sources, the amount of land area required, world supplies of the materials needed, and safety and environmental issues.
ME 337 Thermodynamics (Kirkpatrick)
The undergraduate course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of classical thermodynamics, such as pressure, temperature, energy, work, heat, and entropy, and applies these concepts and principles to power generation systems, and environmental and biologcal systems.
ME 437 Internal Combustion Engines (Olsen)
Application of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics to internal combustion engines.
ME 463 Building Energy Systems (Hittle)
Comfort, psychrometrics, loads, solar radiation, heating and cooling system design, transport, solar system design, economics.
ME 538 Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics (Kirkpatrick)
The graduate course reviews the first and second law of thermodynamics and associated concepts. The formulations of entropy generation, exergy, and lost work are introduced and applied to energy systems.
ME 575 Solar and Alternative Energies (Hittle)
Solar radiation, flat-plate collectors, energy storage, space heating and cooling, power generation, applications, simulation.
ME 509 Manufacturing Quality Design and Control (Duff)
A major component of the course is a case study group project dealing with determining statistically significant types of failure in concentrating evacuated tube solar collectors in a commercial building solar cooling system and identifying likely underlying causes.
ME 512 Reliability Engineering (Duff)
A capstone component of the course is a case study individual project dealing with determining the failure mechanism and predicting the reliability and longevity of concentrating evacuated tube solar collectors in a commercial building solar cooling system based on seven years of data.
ME 676 Building Energy Design (Hittle)
Design of space heating and cooling systems. Solar thermal electric power systems, inductrial and agricultural process heat.
NS 380 Introduction to Nanoscale Science (Prieto)
The development of new nanostructured materials affects many areas of technology. Students will be introduced to the following topics relevant to clean energy: photovoltaic devices consisting of CdSe tetrapods as well as TiO2 nanostructured films, the synthesis and characterization of high surface area hydrogen storage materials, and nanostructured thermoelectric materials as a route for efficient solar thermal energy utilization.
A Sustainable Path for Energy Production and Use
