Energy Courses
Stanford offers over 300 energy courses. Link below to current listings.
We hope to see you at the weekly cross-campus Energy Seminar on Mondays during the academic year at 4:30-5:20pm in NVIDIA Auditorium. Students may take the Energy Seminar for credit or drop in for talks of interest.
Incoming graduate and professional school students may enroll in a week-long energy course Energy@Stanford&SLAC, that runs September 8-11, 2015.
For lifelong learners, the Stanford Center for Professional Development offers an Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certificate.
If you notice any omissions or inaccuracies in the listing please email: precourt_institute@stanford.edu. Thank you.
2015 - 2016 Academic Year
| Department |
Course Code |
Course Title | Description | General Education Requirement(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GSBGEN | 532 | Cleantech: Business Fundamentals and Public Policy | This course examines trends and opportunities in the cleantech sector with a particular focus on low carbon energy and carbon emission reductions. We examine these trends in the context of changing... | |
| GSBGEN | 538 | Energy Policy, Markets, and Climate Change | This course will consider world energy markets as well as national and international policy challenges for the energy sector, in the context of climate change and its probable impacts. Case studies... | |
| OIT | 538 | Environmental Science for Managers - Accelerated | This course satisfies the MBA distribution requirement in Optimization and Simulation Modeling (OSM). It is challenging but doable for students without an undergraduate degree in science or... | |
| OIT | 539 | Environmental Science for Managers - Advanced | Fundamental science of ecosystems, climate and energy. Spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation applied to resource management and environmental policy. Similar to OIT 338, but... | |
| OIT | 540 | Environmental Science for Managers II | This course provides an introduction to renewable sources of electricity and fuel, and is required for the joint MBA-MS in Environment and Resources degree. nnnStudents are strongly encouraged, but... | |
| STRAMGT | 574 | Strategic Thinking in Action - In Business and Beyond (II) | This six-session 2-point Bass seminar will involve students (maximum 18) in analyzing the emerging global electric automotive industry by focusing on: (1) The electric automotive industry in the U.S... | |
| EARTHSYS | 57Q | Climate Change from the Past to the Future (ESS 57Q) | Preference to sophomores. Numeric models to predict how climate responds to increase of greenhouse gases. Paleoclimate during times in Earth's history when greenhouse gas concentrations were elevated... | WAY-SMA |
| ESS | 57Q | Climate Change from the Past to the Future (EARTHSYS 57Q) | Preference to sophomores. Numeric models to predict how climate responds to increase of greenhouse gases. Paleoclimate during times in Earth's history when greenhouse gas concentrations were elevated... | WAY-SMA |
| LAW | 605 | International Environmental Law | This course examines the legal, scientific, political, economic, and organizational issues associated with the creation of international environmental regimes. The principal emphasis will be on the... | |
| CHEMENG | 60Q | Environmental Regulation and Policy | Preference to sophomores. How environmental policy is formulated in the U.S. How and what type of scientific research is incorporated into decisions. How to determine acceptable risk, the public's... | GER:DB-EngrAppSci |
| PHYSICS | 61 | Mechanics and Special Relativity | (First in a three-part advanced freshman physics series: PHYSICS 61, PHYSICS 63, PHYSICS 65.) This course covers Einstein's special theory of relativity and Newtonian mechanics at a level appropriate... | GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-FR, WAY-SMA |
| CEE | 63 | Weather and Storms (CEE 263C) | Daily and severe weather and global climate. Topics: structure and composition of the atmosphere, fog and cloud formation, rainfall, local winds, wind energy, global circulation, jet streams, high... | GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA |
| PHYSICS | 63 | Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves | (Second in a three-part advanced freshman physics series: PHYSICS 61, PHYSICS 63, PHYSICS 65.) This course covers the foundations of electricity and magnetism for students with a strong high school... | GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-FR, WAY-SMA |
| CEE | 64 | Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions (CEE 263D) | Survey of Survey of air pollution and global warming and their renewable energy solutions. Topics: evolution of the Earth's atmosphere, history of discovery of chemicals in the air, bases and... | GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA |
| PHYSICS | 65 | Quantum and Thermal Physics | (Third in a three-part advanced freshman physics series: PHYSICS 61, PHYSICS 63, PHYSICS 65.) This course introduces the foundations of quantum and statistical mechanics for students with a strong... | GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-FR, WAY-SMA |
| MGTECON | 651 | Natural Resource and Energy Economics | Management and provision non-renewable and renewable natural resources, with considerable attention to energy provision and use. Topics include: fisheries problems and policy; energy industry market... | |
| CEE | 70 | Environmental Science and Technology (ENGR 90) | Introduction to environmental quality and the technical background necessary for understanding environmental issues, controlling environmental degradation, and preserving air and water quality.... | GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-AQR |
| ME | 70 | Introductory Fluids Engineering | Elements of fluid mechanics as applied to engineering problems. Equations of motion for incompressible ideal flow. Hydrostatics. Control volume laws for mass, momentum, and energy. Bernoulli equation... | GER:DB-EngrAppSci |
| LAW | 746 | Climate Change Policy: Economic, Legal, and Political Analysis | This course will advance students' understanding of economic, legal, and political approaches to avoiding or managing the problem of global climate change. Beyond focusing on economic issues and... | |
| PHIL | 76 | Introduction to Global Justice (ETHICSOC 136R, INTNLREL 136R, POLISCI 136R, POLISCI 336) | This course provides an overview of core ethical problems in international politics, with special emphasis on the question of what demands justice imposes on institutions and agents acting in a... | GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER |
| LAW | 774 | Clean Energy Project Development and Finance | This case study-oriented course will focus on the critical skills needed to evaluate, develop, finance (on a non-recourse basis), and complete standalone utility-scale energy and infrastructure... | |
| APPPHYS | 79N | Energy Options for the 21st Century | Preference to freshmen. Choices for meeting the future energy needs of the U.S. and the world. Basic physics of energy sources, technologies that might be employed, and related public policy issues.... | GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA |
| THINK | 8 | Sustainability and Collapse | What does it mean to live sustainably? How do our different definitions of nature ¿ scientific, literary, cultural, and historical ¿ shape the way we answer that question?... | THINK, WAY-A-II |
| ENERGY | 801 | TGR Project | ||
| ENERGY | 802 | TGR Dissertation | ||
| PHYSICS | 81N | Science on the Back of the Envelope | Understanding the complex world around us quantitatively, using order of magnitude estimates and dimensional analysis. Starting from a handful of fundamental constants of Nature, one can estimate... | |
| ENGR | 90 | Environmental Science and Technology (CEE 70) | Introduction to environmental quality and the technical background necessary for understanding environmental issues, controlling environmental degradation, and preserving air and water quality.... | GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-AQR |
| MSE | 92Q | International Environmental Policy | Preference to sophomores. Science, economics, and politics of international environmental policy. Current negotiations on global climate change, including actors and potential solutions. Sources... |
