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Seeking to understand and transform the world's energy systems, MIT researchers and students ... Many of these energy courses are represented on OCW. SubscribetotheOCWNewsletter Help   |   ContactUs   Courses Findcoursesby: Topic MITCourseNumber Department Collections Audio/VideoLectures OnlineTextbooks NewCourses MostVisitedCourses OCWScholarCourses ThisCourseatMIT SupplementalResources   Cross-DisciplinaryTopicLists Energy Entrepreneurship Environment IntroductoryProgramming LifeSciences Transportation     TranslatedCourses 繁體字/TraditionalChinese Español/Spanish Português/Portuguese فارسی/Persian Türkçe/Turkish (비디오)한국/Korean More... About AboutMITOpenCourseWare SiteStats OCWStories MediaCoverage Newsletter PressReleases OCW'sNextDecade Donate MakeaDonation WhyDonate? BecomeaCourseChampion OurSupporters OtherWaystoContribute ShopOCW BecomeaCorporateSponsor FeaturedSites HighlightsforHighSchool OCWEducator MITxCoursesonedX TeachingExcellenceatMIT OpenEducationConsortium AdvancedSearch Home » Courses » EnergyCourses EnergyCourses   PhotobyFlickruserChanghuaCoastConservationAction. Seekingtounderstandandtransformtheworld’senergysystems,MITresearchersandstudentsinvestigateallaspectsofenergy.Theydiscovernewwaysofgeneratingandstoringenergy,asincreatingbiofuelsfromplantwasteandinholdingelectricityfromrenewablesourcesincost-effective,high-capacitybatteries.Theycreatemodelsanddesignexperimentstodeterminehowwecanimproveenergyefficiencyatallscales,fromnanostructuresandphotovoltaiccellstolargepowerplantsandsmartelectricalgrids.Theyanalyzehowpeoplemakedecisionsaboutenergy,whetherasindividualconsumersorwholenations,andtheyforecastwhatthesocialandenvironmentalconsequencesofthesedecisionsmightbe. Infact,thestudyofenergyissoimportantandsopervasiveatMIT,theMITEnergyInitiativehasdevisedanEnergyStudiesMinor,integratingcoursesfrommanydifferentdisciplines,forstudentstodeveloptheexpertiseneededtoreshapehowtheworldusesenergy.Theminorhastwocomponents:acore,whichcombineskeycoursesinenergyscience,technology,andsocialscience,andaprogramofelectives,fromwhichstudentscanselectcoursesastheypursuetheirparticularinterests. ManyoftheseenergycoursesarerepresentedonOCW.Wehavearrangedthecourselistbelowinaccordancewiththecoreandelectivesstructureoftheenergyminor,andaddedsomeadditionalenergycourses,labeledother,thathavebeentaughtatMITandpublishedonOCWbutarenotpartoftheminorprogram. NotifymeofcourseupdatesviaRSS OtherRSSfeeds EnergyCourses   EnergyMinorCoreCourses EnergyMinorElectiveCourses OtherEnergyCourses EnergyMinorCoreCourses Course# CourseTitle Level 2.60 FundamentalsofAdvancedEnergyConversion Undergraduate 3.012 FundamentalsofMaterialsScience Undergraduate 4.42J FundamentalsofEnergyinBuildings Undergraduate 5.60 Thermodynamics&Kinetics Undergraduate 6.007 ElectromagneticEnergy:FromMotorstoLasers Undergraduate 8.21 ThePhysicsofEnergy Undergraduate 12.340 GlobalWarmingScience Undergraduate 14.01SC PrinciplesofMicroeconomics (Fall2011) Undergraduate 14.01 PrinciplesofMicroeconomics (Fall2007) Undergraduate 15.031J EnergyDecisions,Markets,andPolicies Undergraduate 22.081J IntroductiontoSustainableEnergy Undergraduate BacktoTop EnergyMinorElectiveCourses Course# CourseTitle Level 2.57 Nano-to-MacroTransportProcesses Undergraduate 2.627 FundamentalsofPhotovoltaics Undergraduate 3.003 PrinciplesofEngineeringPractice Undergraduate 4.401 IntroductiontoBuildingTechnology Undergraduate 6.061 IntroductiontoElectricPowerSystems Undergraduate 6.701 IntroductiontoNanoelectronics Undergraduate 6.S079 Nanomaker Undergraduate 8.044 StatisticalPhysicsI Undergraduate 11.165 InfrastructureandEnergyTechnologyChallenges Undergraduate 14.42 EnvironmentalPolicyandEconomics Undergraduate 14.44 EnergyEconomics Undergraduate 21H.207 TheEnergyCrisis:PastandPresent Undergraduate 22.033 NuclearSystemsDesignProject Undergraduate 22.06 EngineeringofNuclearSystems Undergraduate EC.711 D-Lab:Energy (Spring2011) Undergraduate SP.775 D-Lab:Energy (Spring2011) Undergraduate 10.626 ElectrochemicalEnergySystems Graduate ESD.934 Engineering,EconomicsandRegulationoftheElectricPowerSector Graduate BacktoTop OtherEnergyCourses Course# CourseTitle Level 5.92 Energy,Environment,andSociety Undergraduate 14.44 EnergyEconomics Undergraduate 2.611 MarinePowerandPropulsion Graduate 15.023J GlobalClimateChange:Economics,Science,andPolicy Graduate ESD.172J XPRIZEWorkshop:GrandChallengesinEnergy Graduate BacktoTop OceanWaveInteractionwithShipsandOffshoreEnergySystems(13.022) SomeDescription Instructor(s) Prof. AsTaughtIn Spring2002 CourseNumber 2.24 Level Undergraduate/Graduate Features LectureNotes,StudentWork EnergyLinks MITEnergyInitiative MITEnergyInitiativeVideoCollections MITEnergyStudiesMinor MITEnergyStudiesMinorVideoCollections MITCenterforEnergyandEnvironmentalPolicyResearch MITEnergyClub MITEnergyNight MITCleanEnergyPrize MITTechnologyReviewonEnergy MITEnergyFinanceForum MITEnergyConference FindbyTopicFindbyCourseNumberFindbyDepartmentAudio/VideoCoursesCourseswithSubtitlesOnlineTextbooksNewCoursesMostVisitedCoursesOCWScholarCoursesThisCourseatMITSupplementalResourcesTranslatedCourses AboutOpenCourseWareSiteStatsOCWStoriesMediaCoverageNewsletterPressReleasesOCW'sNextDecade MakeaDonationWhyDonate?BecomeaCourseChampionOurSupportersOtherWaystoContributeShopOCWBecomeaCorporateSponsor HighlightsforHighSchoolOCWEducatorMITxCoursesonedXTeachingExcellenceatMITOpenEducationConsortium Help&FAQsContactUsAdvancedSearchSiteMapPrivacy&TermsofUseRSSFeeds MITOpenCourseWaremakesthematerialsusedintheteachingofalmostallofMIT'ssubjectsavailableontheWeb,freeofcharge.Withmorethan2,200coursesavailable,OCWisdeliveringonthepromiseofopensharingofknowledge. ©2001–2015MassachusettsInstituteofTechnologyYouruseoftheMITOpenCourseWaresiteandmaterialsissubjecttoourCreativeCommonsLicenseandothertermsofuse.