Complement your degree with a Minor in Sustainable Energy

Energy is now central to one of the preeminent challenges facing humanity: a sustainable human existence on the planet. The minor in Sustainable Energy allows students pursuing any undergraduate major at Boston University to complete a coherent suite of courses that exposes them to the interdisciplinary nature of energy studies. The curriculum includes the essentials of energy from the business, economics, policy, and engineering perspectives, as taught by faculty experts in those areas.

Requirements

The minor consists of seven courses (26 credits), all of which must be completed with a grade of C or higher. Students minoring in Sustainable Energy, through coursework, will satisfy BU Hub requirements in Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry, and Research & Information Literacy. The seven courses comprise four required principal courses, one required practicum, one required related course, and one elective course.

With the exception of QST SM 132 and CAS EE 395 and 396, all required courses are 4 credit hours.

Principal Courses (4)

Four courses are required:

  • CAS EE 150 Sustainable Energy: Technology, Resources, Society, and Environment
  • ENG EK 225 Introduction to Energy Conversion and Environmental Engineering
  • QST SM 131 Business, Ethics, and the Creation of Value
  • QST SM 132 Measuring Financial Value

Practicum (1)

  • QST SI 430 The Multidisciplinary Sustainable Energy Practicum

Required Related Course (1)

One course in quantitative environmental modeling, chosen from:

  • CAS EC 204 Empirical Economics 2
  • CAS EE 302 Remote Sensing of Environment
  • CAS EE 365 An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • QST FE 443 ESG Equity Investing
  • QST OM 451 Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains
  • CAS EE 375 Introduction to Quantitative Environmental Modeling
  • QST QM 222 Modeling Business Decisions and Market Outcomes
  • QST QM 323 Analytics

Electives (1)

One course selected from:

  • CAS EC 571 Energy and Environmental Economics
  • CAS EE 395 and 396 Earth House Practicum 1 & 2
  • CAS EE 250 The Fate of Nations: Climate, Resources, and Institution
  • CAS EE 304 Environmentally Sustainable Development
  • CAS EE 460 Food, Energy, and Water Policy
  • CAS EE 519 Energy, Society, and the Environment
  • CAS EE 521 Law for Sustainability
  • CAS EE 555 World Oil Markets
  • CAS EE 560 Energy Transitions
  • CAS IR 594 Global Environmental Negotiation and Policy
  • CAS IR 599 Science, Politics, and Climate Change
  • ENG EC/ME/SE 543 Sustainable Power Systems: Planning, Operation and Markets
  • ENG EC/MS 573 Solar Energy Systems
  • ENG EK 335 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  • ENG EK 408 Introduction to Clean energy Generation and Storage Technologies
  • ENG EK 546 Assessment of Sustainable Energy Technologies
  • ENG ME 420 Supply Chain Engineering
  • QST SI 453 Strategies in Environmental Sustainability
  • QST SI 480 The Business of Technology Innovation

BU Sustainable Energy Minor

presented by Affiliated Faculty, ISE Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Richard Steubi

for more information, please contact Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Sayaka Yamaki