University Environmental Programs

• An Amazing List of Environmental Programs in the US from Brown University
• "10 Schools That Get It"(Sierra Club 2007)

University Curriculum

Summary and/or syllabus for courses that have worked well:

• Energy Efficient Buildings (Stanford CEE176A)

  Professor: Gilbert M. Masters

  Summary: Analysis and design. Thermal analysis of building envelope, heating and cooling requirements, HVAC, and building integrated PV systems. Emphasis is on residential passive solar design and solar water heating. Lab.

  Textbook: Energy for Sustainability (Randolph & Masters)

• Electric Power: Renewables and Efficiency (Stanford CEE176B)

  Professor: Gilbert M. Masters

  Summary: Renewable and efficient electric power systems emphasizing analysis and sizing of photovoltaic arrays and wind turbines. Basic electric power generation, transmission and distribution, distributed generation, combined heat and power, fuel cells. End use demand, including lighting and motors. Lab.

  Textbook: Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems (Masters)

• Energy Resources (Stanford CEE173A)

  Professor: Jane Woodward

  Summary: Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal, biomass, wind, and ocean energy resources in terms of supply, distribution, recovery and conversion, environmental impacts, economics, policy, and technology. The opportunities for energy efficiency, electric power basics, the changing role of electric utilities, transportation basics, and energy use in developing countries. Field trips.

  Textbook: Energy: Its Use and the Environment (Hinrichs & Kleinbach)





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