Sandeep Kumar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Coordinator
This interdisciplinary minor is for students who would like to learn about energy engineering fundamentals, socio-environmental impacts of energy systems, and novel energy engineering technologies. The minor will enhance students' abilities to integrate knowledge from different disciplines with concepts used in energy engineering and offer students the opportunity to be recognized for study in this growing interdisciplinary field.
Requirements
The interdisciplinary minor requires 12 credit hours of 300/400-level courses selected from at least two different disciplines with a maximum of six credits from any one discipline. The course requirements are as follows:
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credit Hours |
| 12 |
| Sustainable Building Practices | |
| Sustainable Development | |
| Biofuels Engineering | |
| Introduction to Electrical Power | |
| Power Electronics | |
| Introduction to Solar Cells | |
| Natural Resource and Environmental Economics | |
| Energy and The Environment | |
| Introduction to Smart Grids | |
| Electrical Power Systems | |
| Introduction to Engineering Management | |
| Engineering Economics | |
| Mechanical Engineering Power Systems Theory and Design | |
| Energy Conversion | |
| Thermodynamics | |
| Energy Systems | |
| Nuclear Systems I | |
| Waves and Tides | |
| Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics | |
One course relevant to energy engineering from the student 's major can also be used as a minor course with the approval of the minor coordinator.
For completion of the minor, students must have a minimum overall grade point average of 2.00 in all courses specified as a requirement for the minor exclusive of prerequisites. At least six hours of the required 12 must be taken through courses offered by Old Dominion University.
