Power and Energy Undergraduate Certificate

• The student must complete a minimum of 15 credits of course work in the certificate curriculum taken for a letter grade. Courses taken prior to admission into the certificate can be applied to the certificate.
• A minimum of nine credits must be at, or above, the 300-level.
• The student must earn a C or better in each course used to satisfy the certificate.
• The student must complete a three-credit breadth component. The breadth component requires that a student take courses in at least two disciplines, with a minimum of three credits completed in the second discipline.
• The certificate will be awarded to students who complete the certificate curriculum and also complete an undergraduate degree.
• No more than nine credits of the Power and Energy Undergraduate Certificate can be used as required courses in the student’s major, minor, or other certificate. Courses used to satisfy the certificate can be used as electives (including technical electives) in a student’s degree program.
• Courses applied to the Power and Energy Undergraduate Certificate cannot be applied to the Power and Energy Graduate Certificate.

The Undergraduate Certificate program coincides with the requirements for a BS in Biosystems, Electrical, Chemical, Computer, Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical, or Mining Engineering by fitting PEIK courses into the elective requirements of the various majors, taking advantage of the fact that each major already has elective courses within their existing curriculum relevant to power and energy.

The structure of the Certificate program will allow certification through electives requirements, with few (or no) additional credits beyond those required for the degree. For example, in electrical engineering, there already exists a curriculum track in electric power that includes many power-related courses available to undergraduates. Such courses also already exist in other departments, including courses in power generation, air pollution control, biofuels, building energy modeling, and energy modeling for manufacturing.