MAE 5010 Future Energy Systems
Spring. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENGRD 2210 Thermodynamics or equivalent. Recommended: MAE 3230 Introductory Fluid Mechanics, MAE 3240 Heat Transfer, or equivalents; graduate or senior standing or permission of instructor.
Critically examines the technology of energy systems that will be acceptable in a world faced with global climate change, local pollution, and declining supplies of oil. The focus is on renewable energy sources (wind, solar, biomass), but other non-carbon-emitting sources (nuclear) and lowered-carbon sources (co-generative gas turbine plants, fuel cells) also are studied. Both the devices and the overall systems are analyzed.