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The world is calling for innovative thinkers to address rising fuel costs and environmental challenges like global warming. Now more than ever, we need engineers trained in alternative energy systems to lead the transition to a sustainable future.
LTU has been a pioneer in energy engineering, being one of Michigan’s first universities to offer a program in this critical field. With LTU’s Minor in Energy Engineering, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to make an impact, from renewable energy solutions to efficient energy management.
This 18-credit minor is designed for students pursuing an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. The curriculum combines three core courses and three electives, covering topics such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy, biomass, energy storage systems, and fuel cells. You’ll also gain hands-on experience in LTU’s cutting-edge Alternative Energy Laboratory.
You may apply up to six credits from Lawrence Tech’s undergraduate or graduate Mechanical Engineering program toward your minor.
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This course is a technical study of all of the major alternative energy topics. Thermodynamics, electrical principles, the related technologies for electric power and the current status of our non-renewable energy sources are reviewed. The multidisciplinary topics of alternative energy in the course include solar energy (photovoltaic and solar heating), wind energy (turbines), biomass, geothermal, wave and tidal energy, hydrogen energy and fuel cells. Energy generation system integration is also incorporated. The goal is to equip the students so that they acquire the essential knowledge regarding these technologies, and also have the skills to generate basic designs and to calculate performances of such system designs.
EME5373
3
The concept of availability, refrigeration cycles, mixtures and psychometrics, combustion and thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium, equations of state and thermodynamics relations.
EME5153
3
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EME5263
3
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EME4363
3
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EME5193
3
This course reviews the science and engineering of fuel cells and fuel processors, the generation of hydrogen and its safe handling and storage. The major types of fuel cells are reviewed. Topics include the design, operation and performance of fuel cells, electrodes, electrolytes, and their assemblies, bipolar plates, manifolds, diffusion, electrochemistry, humidification, and modeling. Fuel reforming, the major methods of hydrogen generation, storage, handling and safety, and the use of hydrogen as a viable energy carrier are also primary topics. Students registered for EME6163 will be assigned an extra project.
EME5163
3
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EME5283
3
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EGE5303
3
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EGE5323
3
Basic principles of heat transfer and fluid flow will be used to study the theory, design, construction, operation and optimization of heat pipes.
EME5273
3
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EME5293
3
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EME5313
3
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