Energy and Sustainability Engineering

Course Lists

Course Lists

  • Introduction: CBE/ENGR 5215 [F/S]: Energy and Sustainability: Science, Engineering, and Technology (Grundy)
  • Experiential Capstone: ENGR 5020 [S]: Engineering Sustainability at Penn (Grundy)*

* The capstone course may be substituted with independent research or another experiential component. If the substituted option is taken for credit (e.g. CBE 5990 independent study research), the course is substituted. If it is not taken for credit (e.g. a summer internship), an additional elective course is taken to meet the 10 credit requirement.

At least one in each category. Choose one concentration by taking three courses in a category.

Environment and Climate Solutions

  • CBE 5020 [S] Sustainability of Materials (Winey)
  • CBE 5050 [S] Carbon Capture (Wilcox)
  • MEAM 5620 / CBE 5600 [F] Water Treatment Engineering (McBride)
  • MSE 5450 [F] Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (Murray)
  • ‡EESC 5200 [F] Aqueous Geochemistry (Andrews)
  • EESC 6320 [F] Atmospheric Chemistry (Francisco)
  • EESC 6336 [F] Ocean-Atm. Dyn. and Implications for Future Climate Change (Marinov)
  • EESC 6376 [S] Climate & Big Data (Marinov)
  • EESC 6600 [S] Earth Surface Processes (Jerolmack)
  • ‡ENVS 5220 [F] Sustainable Agriculture and Product Stewardship (Froelich / Farmer)
  • VPTH 6320 [F] Humans, Animals, and the Environment (Hussain / Punt)

Clean Energy Technology

  • ENGR 5300 [F] Renewable Energy Technologies Lab (Grundy)
  • CBE 5300 [S] Electrochemistry Fundamentals, Practices, and Analysis (Kim)
  • CBE 5450 [F] Electrochemical Energy Conversion & Storage (Vohs)
  • CBE 5440 [F] Computational Science of Energy & Chemical Transformations (Vojvodic)
  • ESE 5210 [S] Physics of Solid State Energy Devices (Jariwala)
  • ESE 5800 [S] Power Electronics (Gu)
  • ESE 6710 [F] High Frequency Power Electronics (Gu)
  • MEAM 5020 [F] Energy Engr. in Power Plants and Transportation Syst. (Lukes)
  • MEAM 5030 [F, alternating years] Direct Energy Conversion: From Macro to Nano (Bargatin)
  • MEAM 5480 [F] Wind Physics and Applications (Wei)
  • MSE 5550 [F] Electrochemical Engineering of Materials (Detsi)
  • ENVS 6840 [S] Energy, Waste and the Environment (Giere)

Society and Policy

  • ENMG 5020 [F] Introduction to Energy Policy (Welton)
  • ENMG 5090 [S] Regional Complexities of the Global Energy Transition (Pachon)
  • ENMG 5120 [F] Energy Geopolitics and National Security (Schmitt)
  • ENMG 5300 [S] Energy Justice (Carley)
  • ENMG 5400 [F] Technology Deployment to Achieve Net Zero: Decarbonization (Wilcox)
  • ENMG 5450 [S] Clean Energy Technology Deployment to Achieve Net Zero: GHG Removals (Wilcox)
  • CPLN 5840 [F] Effective Policy for the Energy Transition (Carley)
  • ‡ENVS 5600 [F] Developing Environmental Policy (Lisa)
  • ‡ENVS 5610 [S] Global Energy Policy: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities
  • ‡ENVS 6825 [S] Urban Water Policies and Practices for a Changing Climate (Neukrug)
  • ‡ENVS 6880 [S] Environmental Risk Assessment (Spielberger)
  • EAS 5110 [S] Societal Grand Challenges at the Interface of Tech. and Policy (Composto)
  • EAS 5050 [F] Climate Policy & Tech. (Huemmler)
  • EAS 5030 [F/S] Energy Syst. & Policy (Huemmler)
  • EAS 5010/5020 [F/S] Energy & Its Impacts (Lior)

Economics and Innovation

  • EAS 5XXX [F] Energy, Water, and Materials for the AI Economy (Zaidi) – new fall 2026
  • MSE 5480 [S] Materials Science and Market Signals in Clean Energy Supply Chains (Zaidi)
  • ESE 5670 [S] Climate Risks and Opportunities (Sastry)
  • ENMG 5630 [S] Building a Clean Energy Economy with Strong, Stable, Shared Growth (Boushey)
  • EAS 5450 [F/S] Engineering Entrepreneurship I: Fund. of high-tech ventures (Babin / Cassel / Halak)
  • *EAS 5460 [F/S] Engineering Entrepreneurship II: High-tech business planning (Babin)
  • *EAS 5490 [S] Engineering Entrepreneurship Lab (Babin)
  • ESE/ENGR 5400 [F/S] Engineering Economics (Cassel)
  • ‡ENVS 6302 [F] Climate Technology: Finance and Policy (Stone / Rohleder)
  • ‡ENVS 6675 [F] Global Supply Chain Decarbonization (Jacoby)
  • ‡BEPP/OIDD 7630 [S] Energy Markets and Policy (Van Benthem)
  • ‡BEPP/ACCT 7640 [S] Climate and Financial Markets (Van Benthem)

* Require EAS 5450 as pre-requisite

‡ Course may be associated with other programs, and students may be required to request a permit to enroll; space is not guaranteed.

The final two courses are electives. The course plan must include 10 CU at or above the 5000 level, six of which must be engineering courses. The below list of electives are pre-approved; additional courses may be approved by the advisor.

  • All courses in the above breadth lists

Engineering courses:

  • BE 5590 [F] Multiscale Modeling of Chem. and Biological Systems (Radhakrishnan)
  • CBE 5150 [S] Chemical Product Design (Seider)
  • CBE 5250 [S] Molecular Modeling and Simulation (Riggleman)
  • CBE 5350 [S] Interfacial Phenomena (Stebe)
  • CBE 5700 [S] Soft Materials Research (Osuji)
  • CBE 6180 [F] Advanced Molecular Thermodynamics (Patel)
  • CBE 6270 [S] Advanced Chemical Kinetics (Vohs)
  • CBE 6400 [F] Transport Processes I (Sinno)
  • CIS 5150 [F/S] Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization (Gallier)
  • CIS 5190 [F/S] Applied Machine Learning (Jayaraman/Zhao/Bastani)
  • CIS 5200 [F/S] Machine Learning (varies)
  • CIS 5450 [F/S] Big Data Analytics (varies)
  • CIS 5590 [F/S] Programming and Problem Solving (Smith)
  • ESE 5000 [F] Linear Systems Theory (Pappas)
  • ESE 5030 [S] Simulation Modeling and Analysis (Carchidi)
  • ESE 5060 [F] Introduction to Optimization Theory (Carchidi)
  • ESE 5090 [F] Quantum Circuits and Systems (Sigillito)
  • ESE 5100 [F] Electromagnetic and Optics (Engheta)
  • ESE 5130 [F] Principles of Quantum Technology (Bassett)
  • ESE 5230 [S] Quantum Engineering (Bassett)
  • ESE 5250 [F] Nanoscale Science and Engineering (Allen)
  • ESE 5280 [S] Estimation and Detection Theory (Sarkar)
  • ESE 5290 [S] Intro. to Micro- and Nano-electromechanical Technologies (Olsson)
  • ESE 5320 [F] System-on-a-Chip Architecture (Dehon)
  • ESE 5360 [S] Nanofabrication and Nanocharacterization (Kim)
  • ESE 5390 [F] Hardware/Software Co-Design (Li)
  • ESE 5410 [F/S] Machine Learning for Data Science (Preciado)
  • ESE 5420 [F/S] Statistics for Data Science (Hassani)
  • ESE 5430 [F/S] Human Systems Engineering (Won)
  • ESE 5480 [F] Transportation Planning Methods (Ryerson)
  • ESE 5500 [S] Advanced Transportation Seminar (Ryerson)
  • ESE 6650 [S] Datacenter Architecture (Lee)
  • ESE 6680 [S] Mixed Signal Circuit Design and Modeling (Khanna)
  • ESE 6730 [S] Integrated Photonic Systems (MacFarlane)
  • MEAM 5060 [F] Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials (Pope/Licurse)
  • MEAM 5080 [F/S] Materials and Manufacturing for Mech. Design (Turner/Fulco)
  • MEAM 5100 [F/S] Design of Mechatronic Systems (Yim/Weakly)
  • MEAM 5130 [S] Feedback Control Design and Analysis (Kothmann)
  • MEAM 5140 [S] Design for Manufacturability (Albert)
  • MEAM 5190 [F] Elasticity and Micromechanics of Materials (Reina Romo)
  • MEAM 5270 [F/S] Finite Element Analysis (Hu)
  • MEAM 5300 [S] Continuum Mechanics (Ponte-Castaneda)
  • MEAM 5350 [F] Advanced Dynamics (Carchidi)
  • MEAM 5450 [F] Aerodynamics (Mistry)
  • MEAM 5360 [S] Viscous Fluid Flow and Modern Applications (Arratia)
  • MEAM 5380 [S] Turbulence (Park)
  • MEAM 5700 [F] Transport Processes I (Bau)
  • MSE 5050 [S] Mechanical Properties of Macro/Nanoscale Materials (Khantha)
  • MSE 5070 [F] Fundamentals of Materials (Khantha)
  • MSE 5150 [S] Mathematical Models for Engineering Applications (Khantha)
  • MSE 5200 [F/S] Structure of Materials (Li)
  • MSE 5300 [F] Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria (Chen)
  • MSE 5360 [F] Electronic Properties of Materials (Chen)
  • MSE 5400 [S] Kinetics of Materials (Chen)
  • MSE 5610 [F] Atomic Modeling in Materials Science (Khantha)
  • MSE 5650 [S] Fab. and Char. of Micro and Nanostructured Materials (Yang)
  • MSE 5700 [F] Physics of Materials I (Agarwal)
  • MSE 5760 [S] Machine Learning and Its Applications in Materials Science (Khantha)
  • MSE 5800 [F] Introduction to Polymers (Madl)

Non-engineering courses:

  • CHEM 5210 [F] Statistical Mechanics I (Baumgart)
  • CHEM 5230 [F] Quantum Chemistry I (Rappe)
  • CHEM 5260 [S] Chemical Dynamics (Nitzan)
  • CHEM 5412/5213 [F] Physical Organic Chemistry 1/2 (Zahrt/Kozlowski)
  • CHEM 5431/5432 [F] Advanced Organic Chemistry 1/2 (Trauner/Mccallum)
  • CHEM 5621/5622 [F/S] Inorganic Chemistry II-A/II-B (Tomson)
  • CHEM 5640 [F] Organometallics (Goldberg)
  • CHEM 7080 [S] Modern Topics in Photochemistry (Chenoweth)
  • CHEM 7210 [F] Mathematics for Chemistry (Fakhraai)
  • CHEM 7640 [S] Materials Chemistry (Murray)
  • CHEM 7650 [S] Chemistry of the f-Block Elements (Schelter)
  • EESC 6200 [S] Advanced Geochemistry (Giere)
  • EESC 6630 [F] Advanced Hydrology (Ulloa)
  • PHYS 5500 [F] Mathematical Models of Physics (Claassen)
  • PHYS 5516 [S] Electromagnetic Phenomena (Nelson)
  • PHYS 5518 [S] Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics (Zhen)
  • PHYS 5522 [S] Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics (Thomson)
  • PHYS 5528 [S] Introduction to Liquid Crystals (Kamien)
  • PHYS 5531 [F] Quantum Mechanics I (Khoury)
  • PHYS 6611 [F] Statistical Mechanics (Kamien)