Courses
Energy Engineering
- EEN 22000 Fundamentals of Electrochemical Materials & Energy Engineering (3 cr.) P: CHEM C105. C: ME 20000. Class 2. Lab 1. This course examines the chemistry and structure of materials and their correlation with various electrochemical properties including their suitability for use in conversion and storage of electrochemical energy, energy related materials, and chemical and renewable energy sources.
- EEN 24000 Basic Engineering Mechanics (4 cr.) P: PHYS 15200 and MATH 26100. C: MATH 26600. This course is an introductory mechanics course in energy engineering, covers force systems and couples, equilibrium, centroids, friction, Kinematics, kinetics of particles & rigid body, Newton's second law, energy, and momentum methods; equations of motions, and application to machine elements.
- EEN 26000 Sustainable Energy (3 cr.) P: PHYS 15200, CHEM-C 10500 and MATH 16600. C: PHYS 25100 and ME 20000. The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with various forms of available energy. The concept of these energies in terms of efficiency, raw material, safety, economy and environmental impact will be introduced.
- EEN 26200 Engineering Design, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship (3 cr.) P: ENGR 19600. C: ENGR 29700 and ME 27000.. Class 2. Lab 2. Basic concepts of the design process. Innovative engineering design of real life application. Engineering ethics topics. Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship. Design projects focus on open-ended problems. Design modeling, simulation, documentation and communication. Implementation and use of modern computer tools in solving design problems and completing team design projects in the area of Energy Engineering.
- EEN 29700 Selected Topics in Energy Engineering (0-6 cr.) P: Sophomore standing and/or consent of instrucotr. Topics of contemporary importance or of special interest in Energy Engineering.
- EEN 31000 Fluid Mechanics (3 cr.) P: ME 20000, C: ME 27400. Continua, velocity fields, fluid statics, basic conservation laws for systems and control volumes, dimensional analysis. Euler and Bernoulli equations, viscous flows, boundary layers, flows in channels and around submerged bodies, and one-dimensional gas dynamics.
- EEN 34500 Renewable Energy System and Design (3 cr.) P: ME 20000, EEN 26000 (required for EEN majors) or Consent of Instructor. This course is designed to introduce the system and design of energy conversion and storage devices for renewable energy sources. Students will first learn about energy sources available on earth including kinetic, solar, and chemical. Next, the course will provide students with a review of the thermodynamic concepts behind energy constant and energy transfer via an energy conversion device. Finally, this course will tie together concepts of renewable energy sources and thermodynamics teaching students about design elements for energy conversion and storage devices, in which renewable energy sources are converted and stored.
- EEN 39700 Selected Topics in Energy Engineering (0-6 cr.) P: Junior Standing and/or consent of instructor. Topics of contemporary importance or of special interest in Energy Engineering.
- EEN 39700 Selected Topics in Energy Engineering (Variable Title) (3 cr.)
The following are the variable titles and course descriptions for EEN 39700.
- EEN 41000 Clean Power Generation (3 cr.) P: ME 20000. Thermodynamic cycle analysis Biofuels, fossil fuels, waste fuels. Thermal power generators, steam and gas turbines, boilers, condensers, fans, pumps, cooling towers. Solar photovoltaic, fuel cells, thermo-electric power. Solar and low-temperature thermal power generation. Hydro-kinetic power generators, wind turbines, hydro power, wave energy.
- EEN 46200 Capstone Design (3 cr.) P: Senior Standing. C: ME/EEN 48200. Class 3. Concurrent engineering design concept is introduced and practiced. Application of the design is emphasized. Design problems from all areas of energy engineering are considered. Contemporary issues pertaining to energy engineering career will be discussed.