Modes of energy

Courses

Undergraduate and graduate-level courses related to energy issues are offered across campus in numerous UC Berkeley departments. For more specific information, visit the UC Berkeley General Catalog, where you can search for courses by department, course number, title, and more.

Electrical power Systems
ER254: Electric Power Systems

Energy Management and Policy
ER100: Energy and Society
ER151: Politics of Energy and Environmental Policy
ER280: Energy Economics
ESPM102D: Resource and Environmental Policy
CE107: Climate Change Mitigation
LAW270.6: Energy Regulation and the Environment
BA212: Energy Markets
ARCH140: Introduction to Energy and Environmental Management
ARCH240: Energy Analysis Tools for Sustainable Building Design
ARCH 249: Design for Sustainability Colloquium
ARCH253: International Economic Development Policy
PUBPOL75: Science & Technology Policy
PUBPOL190-4: Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspective

Energy Sciences
PHYS 250: Physics of Nanostructured Materials
CHEME143: Nuclear Chemistry.
CHEME176: Principles of Electrochemical Processes
ME259: Microscale Thermophysics and Heat Transfer.
ER220: Modeling Energy, Environmental, and Resource Systems
ER290: Energy and Development
ER291: Special Topics in Energy and Resources
ME253: Thermal Radiation.
NE180: Introduction to Controlled Fusion
NE280: Fusion Reactor Engineering
NE281: Fully Ionized Plasmas
CE290: Petroleum Capstone Design

Materials Engineering
MSE22: Fuel Cells, Batteries, and Chemical Sensors: Principles, Processes, Materials, and Technology
MSE 213: Environmental Effects on Materials Properties and Behavior.
EE290Y: Organic Materials in Electronics
CEE216: Hazardous and Industrial Waste Treatment.
NE120: Nuclear Materials
NE220: Irradiation Effects in Nuclear Materials
NE221: Corrosion in Nuclear Power Systems

Nuclear Power Systems
NE124: Radioactive Waste Management
NE161: Nuclear Power Engineering
NE167/NE267: Nuclear Reactor Safety
NE224: Safety Assessment for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes
NE225: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
NE265: Design Analysis of Nuclear Reactors

Photovoltaics
MSE226: Photovoltaic Materials; Modern Technologies in the Context of a Renewable Energy Market

Renewable resources
ER120: Renewable Resources for Electric Generation
CEE216: Hazardous and Industrial Waste Treatment.
CE293: Technology and Sustainability

Thermal Engineering
ME105B: Thermodyamics & Biothermodynamics
ME140: Combustion Process
ME142: Thermal Environmental Control
ME145: Computer-Aided Thermal Design
ME252: Heat Convection
ME253: Thermal Radiation
ME254: Thermodynamics I
ME255: Energy Transfer in Gaseous and Condensed Phases
ME256: Combustion
ME257: Advanced Combustion
ME258: Heat Transfer with Phase Change