CEE 1220 - ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the basic principles and concepts underlying energy production, use, and environmental impacts with a focus on selected traditional fossil fuel based technologies and low carbon advanced energy technologies. Topics covered include world's energy resources, principles and processes behind natural resource extraction, energy generation technologies, laws of thermodynamics, current and anticipated world energy use, resource constraints, and environmental sustainability issues of present and future energy technologies. Special emphasis is placed on the life cycle environmental impacts of different energy technologies and challenges and opportunities for sustainable development of emerging energy technologies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering

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