PhD Minor

The Energy Science and Engineering PhD Minor program is focused on related energy topics such as renewable energy, global climate change, carbon capture and sequestration, energy storage, and energy systems. The Energy Science and Engineering curriculum provides a sound background in basic sciences and their application to practical problems to address the complex and changing nature of the field. Coursework includes the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, geology, computational physics, numerical analysis, and engineering science. Applied courses cover most aspects of energy science and engineering. The curriculum includes the fundamental aspects of energy transfer and fluid flow in subsurface geologic formations and energy storage, transmission, and use at the surface. These principles apply to optimizing energy recovery from hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs, subsurface carbon dioxide sequestration, energy storage, and the remediation of groundwater systems.