Developing a New Graduate Program in Sustainable Energy Engineering

Abstract

© ASEE 2010The world energy demand keeps increasing in recent years due to the rapidly rising living standards and expanding populations. However, the non-renewable energy resource, fossil fuels, is running out and the crude oil supply from Middle East is unstable. To meet the energy demand and improve the energy security, developing sustainable energy, such as solar, wind, tide, geothermal, biomass energy, is a solution to this most urgent energy problems. Therefore, the rapidly increasing nationwide demand for well-qualified professionals in the sustainable energy can be predicted. In order to educate and prepare the technical and scientific workforce for the emerging sustainable energy technology, the School of Engineering at University of Bridgeport (UB) is preparing the M.S. Sustainable Energy Engineering program. In this paper, the structure of the curriculum and the course design in this program will be presented in more details