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ENER 601 Energy Resources (3)
An understanding of the various traditional sources of energy,
their availability, quality, environmental impacts, and potential
alternatives is critical for managers involved in the energy business.
This course provides a perspective of both traditional and
nontraditional sources of energy. Traditional sources such as oil,
gas, and coal are non-renewable and are currently used in meeting
energy needs t h roughout the world. Nontraditional sources
of energy such as bio-mass, solar, wind, and hydro are considered
renewable and are likely to play an important role in fulfilling
future energy demands. The course critically examines the
re s o u rces, energy demand, and principles of conventional thermal
energy conversion. The course also analyzes society’s dependence
on energy, particularly fossil fuels, and the availability of alternative
electricity-producing technologies. The evolution of new
technologies, including their programmatic, development, and
deployment stages is also examined.
ENER 602 Energy Economics (3)
This course familiarizes students on the effect of energy and its
costs on industry and the national economy. Global markets for
energy are examined along with supply, demand, pricing, and
market structure. The cost driving mechanisms for energy,
including investments and competition, are also examined.
ENER 603 Energy Infrastructure Management (3)
This course offers an overview of U.S. and world energy infrastructure
from the wellhead to the consumer. It covers drilling,
refining, transportation, and power generation and how the
various energy grids fit together in a vast network of energy
delivery services. The course identifies vulnerabilities in the system
of energy delivery and methods to reduce these vulnerabilities.
It also discusses energy infrastructure issues in developing
countries and the means to leapfrog over existing technologies in
order to develop an energy infrastructure. Energy infrastructure
risk and security issues are discussed, and measures to safeguard
these infrastructures and minimize risk are introduced.
ENER 646 Environmental/Energy Law and Policy
Development (3)
(Also listed as ENVM 646.) This course will examine U.S. environmental
and energy law and policy, including its deve l o p m e n t ,
implementation, and enforcement. Legislative, executive, and
judicial perspectives and the roles and impacts these have made
on environmental and energy law and policy are analyzed.
Leading laws and their ensuing policies, such as the National
Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water
Acts, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the 1992
National Energy Policy Act, the FDR-Era Federal Policy Act,
the Public Utility Holding Company Act, and the Carter-Era
Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act, will be examined.
ENVM 641 Environmental Auditing (3)
Methods for attaining statutory, regulatory, and permitting
compliance are examined. The protection of workers and other
stakeholders is also examined in the context of organizational,
budgetary, and other constraints. Methods of defining auditing
objectives to meet organizational goals and of designing auditing
programs for effective compliance under each of the 12 major
environmental statutes—including air, water, solid, and hazard
waste management laws and pollution prevention initiatives—
are emphasized.
ENVM 643 Environmental Communications and
Reporting (3)
The range of communication practices required for environmental
managers in the fulfillment of legal, regulatory, ethical, and
organizational responsibilities is examined. The various populations
with whom environmental managers must communicate
and interact are identified and examined; these include plant
s u p e rvisors, corporate exe c u t i ves, regulators, the legal commun
i t y, civic groups, labor unions, and the media. The types of
communication discussed range from decision memoranda to
environmental impact statements, presentations of corporate
environmental policies before affected communities, and deve l o p-
m e n t /conveyance of technical evidence for obtaining permit
variances.
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