ME Undergraduate Concentration in Energy

Global economic, geopolitical, and environmental factors all suggest that improvements are needed in the way that energy is produced, converted, and utilized in the modern world. Mechanical systems are integral to all three of these activities. Thus, an undergraduate concentration in energy, consisting of 12 credit hours, is defined below. For more information, contact the Undergraduate Advisor in the Academic Services Office (2206 GGBrown) or Prof. Wooldridge (mswool@umich.edu).

Students must be in good standing to declare the concentration and must file a course plan with the ME Undergraduate Advisor in the ASO. Students must pass all classes with satisfactory grades. Students may petition the ME UG program director and/or ME UG Program Committee to consider other courses for inclusion in this concentration.

Concentration requirements:

  1. Required Course (3 cr):

    • ME 433 - Advanced Energy Solutions (1,2,3a)

  2. Choice of Engineering Science Courses (6 cr):

    • AERO 335 - Aircraft and Spacecraft Propulsion (GE,5)
    • AERO 533 - Combustion Processes (3b)
    • AOSS 350 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics (GE,5)
    • AOSS 410 - Earth System Modeling (GE,5)
    • CEE 360 - Environmental Process Engineering (3b,5)
    • CEE 460 - Design of Environmental Engineering Systems (3b)
    • CEE 567 - Energy Infrastructure Systems (1,3b)
    • CEE 565 / ESENG 501 - Seminars on Energy System Technology and Policy (GE)
    • ME 336 - Advanced Thermodynamics (2,3a)
    • ME 432 - Introduction to Combustion (1,2,3a)
    • ME 438 - Internal Combustion Engines (1,3a)
    • ME 530 - Advanced Heat Transfer (1,3a)
    • ME 535 - Thermodynamics III (1,3a)
    • ME 537 - Advanced Combustion (1,3a)
    • ME 539 - Heat Transfer Physics (1,3a)
    • ME 571 / ESENG 505 - Energy Generation and Storage Using Modern Materials (1,3a)
    • ME 589 - Ecologically Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (1,3a)
    • ME 599 - Navel Fuels (1,3a,4)
    • NERS 442 - Nuclear Power Reactors (3b, P1)

  3. Choice of Natural Resource and Environment Courses (3 cr):

    • NRE 441 - Remote Sensing of Environment
    • NRE 475 / ENVIRON 475 / EHS 588 - Environmental Law
    • NRE 559 - International Environmental Policy and Law
    • NRE 560 / ENVIRON 360 / PSYCH 389 / UP 560 / SW 710 - Behavior and Environment
    • NRE 562 - Environmental Policy, Politics, and Organizations
    • NRE 571 / ECON 471 - Environmental Economics
    • ECON 370 - Environment & Resources Economics (could meet sequence requirement)



(1) - Category 1 ME Technical Elective (400-level or higher)
(2) - Category 2 ME Technical Elective (core)
(3a) - Category 3a ME Technical Elective
(3b) - Category 3b Non-ME Technical Elective
(GE) - General Elective
(4) - These ME 499 and 599 courses should transition to permanent numbers in the next year or two.
(5) - These courses are not part of the concentration for dual majors in ME and the course's home department
(P1) - Permission of Instructor