Recommended Academic Plan for B.S. in Energy Engineering (effective spring 2014)
Bachelor of Science in Energy Engineering Program
1 Semester
2nd Semester
CHEM 110 (GN) Chemical Principles
CHEM 111 (GN) Experimental Chemistry
3
1
CHEM 112 (GN) Chemical Principles
MATH 141 (GQ) Calculus With Analytic Geometry II
3
4
MATH 140 (GQ) Calculus With Analytic
Geometry I
ECON 102/014 or EBF 200 (GS)
Economics (GA/GH/GS Elective 1)
EM SC 100S (GWS) Freshman Seminar *
Health and Physical Activity (GHA)
4
PHYS 211 (GN) General Physics: Mechanics
4
3
ENGL 015 (GWS) Rhetoric and
Composition or ENGL 030 (GWS)
GA/GH/GS Elective 2
3
3
1.5
15.5
3rd Semester
CHEM 202 Organic Chemistry
MATH 251 Ordinary and Partial
Differential Equations
PHYS 212 (GN) General Physics:
Electricity And Magnetism
GA/GH/GS Elective 3
GA/GH/GS Elective 4
3
17
4th Semester
3
4
4
3
3
EE 211 Electrical Circuits and Power Distribution*
MATH 231 Calculus of Several
Variables
CMPSC 201 or 201C or CMPSC 201F
PHIL 103 (GH) Ethics (GA/GH/GS Elective 5)
GA/GH/GS Elective 6
Health and Physical Activity (GHA)
17
5th Semester
3
2
3
3
3
1.5
15.5
6th Semester
EGEE 012 Energy Engineering Lectures
1
EGEE 304 Heat and Mass Transfer
3
MATSE 201 Intro. to Material Science
EME 301 Thermodynamics
EME 303 Fluid Mechanics of Energy Systems
EGEE 302 Principles of Energy Engineering
3
3
3
3
3
3
ENGL 202C (GWS) Technical Writing
3
EGEE 430 Intro. to Combustion
FSC 431 Chemistry of Fuels- coal,
petroleum, gas, biomass
EGEE 437 Design of Solar Energy Conversion
Systems
EGEE 438 Sustainable Energy Options
16
7th Semester
EME 460 Geo-resource Evaluation and
Investment Analysis / IE 302 Engineering
Economy
FSC 432 Petroleum and Natural Gas Processing
EGEE 441 Electrochemical Energy Conversion
EGEE 451 Energy Conversion Processes
Professional Elective 1
EGEE 411 Energy Science and Engineering
Laboratory
Credits for Graduation
3
3
15
3
8th Semester
EGEE 494A Research Projects/ EGEE 295/395/495
Industrial Internship
2
3
3
3
3
Technical Elective 1
EGEE 464W Energy Design Project
EGEE Elective
Technical Elective 2
3
3
3
3
3
Professional Elective 2
3
18
131
17
* For Students at Campus Colleges
Students at campuses where EM SC 100S (GWS) and EE 211 are not offered should take CAS
100 (GWS) in place of EM SC 100S and an appropriate or equivalent electrical circuits course in
place of EE 211. The curriculum has been designed to enable students who start at campus
locations other than University Park to transfer to University Park and seamlessly transition into
the program in their fifth semester.
ELECTIVES
Students may select their EGEE, professional, and technical electives from the lists below. The
technical electives are energy-related courses outside the major that are offered by various
colleges across Penn State. Substitutions must be made by petition. The electives marked with an
asterisk have prerequisites that only students pursuing concurrent degrees may be able to satisfy.
EGEE ELECTIVES
EGEE 412 Green engineering and environmental compliance
EGEE 420 Hydrogen and fuel cells
EGEE 436 Modern thermodynamics for energy systems
EGEE 455 Materials for energy applications
EGEE 470 Air pollution from combustion sources
ENVSE 427 Pollution Control in the Process Industries
PROFESSIONAL ELECTIVES
ACCTG 211 Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making (4)
EBF 301 Global Finance for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries (3)
EBF 304W Global Management for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries
EBF 401 Strategic Corporate Finance for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries (3)
EBF 473 Risk Management in Energy Industries (3)*
EBF 484 Energy Economics
ENGR 310 Entrepreneurial Leadership
ENGR 312 Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship
ENGR 407 Technology-Based Entrepreneurship
ENGR 408 (US) Leadership Principles (2)
ENGR 409 (US) Leadership in Organization
ENGR 425 New Venture Creation
ENTR 300 Principles of Entrepreneurship*
ERM 411 Legal aspects of resource management*
B LAW 243 Legal Environment of Business
B LAW 340 Business Law
BA 250 Small Business Management
I B 303 International Business Operations
MGMT 301 Basic Management Concepts
MGMT 426 Invention Commercialization
MGMT 427 Managing an Entrepreneurial Start-up Company
TECHNICAL ELECTIVES
BE 497B Biomass energy systems
AE 456 Solar energy building system design
AE 498D Photovoltaic systems design and construction
CE 370 Introduction to environmental engineering
CE 371 Water and wastewater treatment*
CE 475 Water quality chemistry*
CE 476 Solid and hazardous wastes*
CH E 320 Phase & chemical equilibria
CH E 410 Mass transfer operations*
CH E 430 Chemical reaction engineering*
CH E 438 Bioprocess engineering*
CH E 446 Transport phenomena*
EE 387 Energy conversion*
ENGR 294H Resource Sustainability: Biodiesel Production and Use (3)
ENVSE 406 Sampling and Monitoring of the Geo-Environment*
ESC 313 Introduction to Principles, Fabrication Methods, and Applications of
Nanotechnology
E SC 417 (MATSE 417) Electrical and Magnetic Properties
E SC 481 Elements of Nano/Micro-electromechanical Systems Processing and Design
E SC 482 Micro-Optoelectromechanical Systems (MOEMS) and Nanophotonics
E SC 483 (MATSE 483) Simulation and Design of Nanostructures
E SC 414M Elements of Material Engineering
GEOG 430 (currently 406): Human use of environment*
ENVSE 400 Safety Engineering (3)*
ENVSE 430 Industrial health and safety program management (3)
ENVSE 445 Industrial hygiene and toxicology (3)
MatSE 259 Properties and processing of engineering materials*
MatSE 412 Thermal properties of materials*
Meteo 473 Application of computers to meteorology
Meteo 474 Computer methods of meteorological analysis and forecasting*
ME 402 Power Plants*
ME 403 Polymer Electrolyte fuel cell engines*
ME 404 Gas turbines*
ME 408 Energy systems*
ME 410 Heat Transfer
ME 401 Refrigeration and air conditioning
ME 411 Heat exchanger design
ME 431 Internal combustion engines
MNG 401 Mining operations
MNG 410 Underground coal extraction*
MNG 441 Surface mining systems and design*
MN PR 301 Elements of mineral processing
NucE 301 Fundamentals of reactor physics*
NucE 310W Issues in nuclear engineering
NucE 401 Introduction to nuclear engineering
NucE 405 Nuclear and radio-chemistry*
NucE 420 Radiological safety*
NucE 428 Radioactive waste control*
PNG 405 Rock and fluid properties
PNG 411 Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction (1)
PNG 410 Applied Reservoir Engineering (3)*
PNG 480 Production process engineering
Agricultural and biological, chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, mining,
nuclear and petroleum engineering, materials science and engineering, industrial health and
safety, and energy business and finance students will be able to substitute by petition some of
their courses for some of the minor and dual or concurrent degree requirements. Students in
chemical, mechanical, and nuclear engineering in particular may make the following substitution
of courses:
EGEE Course
EMSC 100S (3)
EGEE 012 (1)
EME 301 (3)
EME 303 (3)
EGEE 302 (3)
EGEE 304 (3)
EGEE 420 (3)
EGEE 430 (3)
EGEE 464 (3)
EGEE 470 (3)
Substitute/equivalent course
CAS 100 (3)
CH E 300 (1)
CH E 220 (3) or ME300 (3)
CH E 330 (3) or ME 320 (3)
CH E 210 (3)
CH E 350 (3) or ME 410 (3)
ME 403 (3)
ME 430 (3)
CH E 470 (3)#
ME 433 (3)
# the capstone design project needs to be energy related and must be approved by the ENENG
program chair prior to taking the course.
Energy Engineering Majors are not allowed to take equivalent courses from other department
without the permission of the ENENG program chair.
The program goal is to ensure a broad-based energy engineering education for Penn State
students with special interest in energy. For example, in the required capstone design course
EGEE 464W, the program intends to participate and work with the Learning Factory program in
the College of Engineering to provide students an opportunity to work on industrial energyrelated problems in teams composed of students from multiple energy-related disciplines. The
proposed energy engineering program is consistent and in line with the recent Penn State
University Energy Task Force report and recommendations. In particular, it fulfills the
recommendation to develop an exciting new undergraduate curriculum in energy.
Courses for Energy Engineering Minor
Select 3 courses (9 credits) from the following
EME 301 Thermodynamics in energy and mineral engineering
EME 303 Fluid mechanics in energy and mineral engineering
EGEE 302 Principles of energy engineering
EGEE 304 Heat and mass transfer
EGEE 411 Energy Science and Engineering Laboratory or EGEE 494A Research projects
EGEE 430 Introduction to combustion or ME 416 Introduction to combustion
EGEE 420 Hydrogen and fuel cells or ME 408 Fuel cell engines
Select 3 courses (9 credits) from the following
FSC 431 Chemistry of fuels
FSC 432 Petroleum and natural gas processing
EGEE 433 Physical processes in energy engineering
EGEE 437 Design of solar energy conversion systems
EGEE 438 Sustainable energy options
EGEE 441 Electrochemical energy conversion
EGEE 451 Energy conversion processes
EGEE 464W Energy design project or CH E 470 or ME 442W (2) and ME 443W (1)
EGEE 470 Air pollution from combustion sources or ME 470 Fundamentals of air pollution
The approved course substitutions should make it attractive for students in chemical, mechanical,
and nuclear engineering, in particular, to be able to readily work towards a minor, option, or dual
or concurrent degree in energy engineering. The prerequisites for the above courses or their
substitutes would have been met for most engineering students within their major. Students in
disciplines such as agricultural and biological, civil, electrical, environmental, mining, and
petroleum engineering; materials science and engineering; and energy business and finance
(EBF) should seek advice from the Energy Engineering program chair on the substitutions and
technical elective choices for minors, options or dual degrees.