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Seeking to understand and transform the world’s energy systems, MIT researchers and students investigate all aspects of energy. They discover new ways of generating and storing energy, as in creating biofuels from plant waste and in holding electricity from renewable sources in cost-effective, high-capacity batteries. They create models and design experiments to determine how we can improve energy efficiency at all scales, from nanostructures and photovoltaic cells to large power plants and smart electrical grids. They analyze how people make decisions about energy, whether as individual consumers or whole nations, and they forecast what the social and environmental consequences of these decisions might be.

In fact, the study of energy is so important and so pervasive at MIT, the MIT Energy Initiative has devised an Energy Studies Minor, integrating courses from many different disciplines, for students to develop the expertise needed to reshape how the world uses energy. The minor has two components: a core, which combines key courses in energy science, technology, and social science, and a program of electives, from which students can select courses as they pursue their particular interests.

Many of these energy courses are represented on OCW. We have arranged the course list below in accordance with the core and electives structure of the energy minor, and added some additional energy courses, labeled other, that have been taught at MIT and published on OCW but are not part of the minor program.

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Energy Courses

 

Energy Minor Core Courses

Course #	Course Title	Level
2.60	Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion	Undergraduate
3.012	Fundamentals of Materials Science	Undergraduate
4.42J	Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings	Undergraduate
5.60	Thermodynamics & Kinetics	Undergraduate
6.007	Electromagnetic Energy: From Motors to Lasers	Undergraduate
8.21	The Physics of Energy	Undergraduate
12.340	Global Warming Science	Undergraduate
14.01SC	Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2011)	Undergraduate
14.01	Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2007)	Undergraduate
15.031J	Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies	Undergraduate
22.081J	Introduction to Sustainable Energy	Undergraduate

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Energy Minor Elective Courses

Course #	Course Title	Level
2.57	Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes	Undergraduate
2.627	Fundamentals of Photovoltaics	Undergraduate
3.003	Principles of Engineering Practice	Undergraduate
4.401	Introduction to Building Technology	Undergraduate
6.061	Introduction to Electric Power Systems	Undergraduate
6.701	Introduction to Nanoelectronics	Undergraduate
6.S079	Nanomaker	Undergraduate
8.044	Statistical Physics I	Undergraduate
11.165	Infrastructure and Energy Technology Challenges	Undergraduate
14.42	Environmental Policy and Economics	Undergraduate
14.44	Energy Economics	Undergraduate
21H.207	The Energy Crisis: Past and Present	Undergraduate
22.033	Nuclear Systems Design Project	Undergraduate
22.06	Engineering of Nuclear Systems	Undergraduate
EC.711	D-Lab: Energy	Undergraduate
10.626	Electrochemical Energy Systems	Graduate
ESD.934	Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector	Graduate

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Other Energy Courses

Course #	Course Title	Level
5.92	Energy, Environment, and Society	Undergraduate
14.44	Energy Economics	Undergraduate
2.611	Marine Power and Propulsion	Graduate
15.023J	Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy	Graduate
ESD.172J	X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy	Graduate

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