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Please find a list of courses below that can contribute to research excellence in the Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Group:

Undergrad Courses

CE 4050 - Green Building Design: An overview of practice for designing and constructing sustainable building following Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines. Intensive two week class will include hands on practice with LEED, energy modeling, and an exploration of sustainable construction.
CMG 4800 - Sustainable Construction: An introduction to the philosophy and practice of sustainable building construction with emphasis on underlying socio-environmental philosophies, sustainable directed building technologies and materials, and case studies of contemporary green buildings to culminate in a simple sustainable design project.
EC 4640 - Natural Resource Economics: Studies the economics of nonrenewable resources (energy and minerals) and renewable resources (water, fisheries, forests and species). Discusses the economics of land use change, macroeconomic topics such as economic growth, sustainability and green accounting.
EE 4000 - Undergraduate Research with Dr. Pearce
ENG 3530 - Undergraduate Colloquium in Sustainability: Readings and speakers are used to teach concepts of sustainable development and global sustainability. Specific topics are derived from the industrialized and developing world.
ENG 4510 - Sustainable Futures I: Covers introductory and intermediate concepts of Sustainable Development. Explores methods/tools for assessing sustainability (economic, environmental, societal impacts) of current and emerging industrial technologies. Explores relationships between government policies and markets for introducing sustainable technologies into national economies and corporations.
ENVE 4506 - Application of Sustainability Principles & Environmental Regulations to Engineering Practice: Study of sustainability, federal and state regulations and policies that govern solid and hazardous waste management, environmental risk of toxic chemicals, life cycle assessment, and green engineering.
ENVE 4512 - Green Engineering Design for Sustainability: Challenges to sustainability, the role of engineering design in achieving sustainability, the current approach to engineering design (process design, material selection and energy consumption) in the context of infrastructure systems, the principles and application of green engineering.
FW 3313 - Sustainability Science, Policy, and Assessment: Foundational scientific concepts (dynamic systems and catastrophe theory) as applied to socioecological systems. Use of indicators and indices to track progress towards sustainability goals. Review of local, national, and global sustainability policies to avoid catastrophes and guide sustainable development.
MEEM 4685 - Env Resp Design & Manuf: Examines the impact of engineering and design/manufacturing, decisions on the environment. Topics include sustainability; energy and material flows; risk assessment; life cycles, manufacturing process waste streams, and product design issues, including disassembly and post-use product handling and techniques for pollution prevention.
MGT 4800 - Ecological Sustainability and Organizations: Examines the problems and solutions associated with creating and maintaining ecologically sustainable organizations (primarily businesses). Builds an ethical framework using concepts of ecological identity and place and examines the principles of ecological economics and sustainable development.
MY3701 Semiconductors by Dr. Pearce
MY 4190 - Environmental Engineering for Materials Processing Industries: Assessment and analysis of environmental impacts from materials processing industries. Regulations, permits, and industrial practices for monitoring and solving air, water, and solid environmental issues. Pollution prevention. Life cycle analysis. Material flow analysis.
MY 4990 - Undergraduate Research with Dr. Pearce

Graduate Courses

Technical Courses

Recommended Courses for Electrical and Computer Engineering students in MOST group

EE 5430 - Electronic Materials - A study of the physical principles, operational characteristics, models, and basic applications of selected solid-state devices. (3 credits)
EE 5470 - Semiconductor Fabrication - Graduate level introduction to the science and engineering of semiconductor device fabrication (highly recommended). (3 credits)
EE 5471 - Microfabrication Laboratory - A laboratory experience in which the student fabricates micro- and non-meter devices. This course is intended for graduate students conducting experimental research in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering. Mandatory basic laboratory safety training for use of the Microfabrication Facility (MFF) is conducted in this course. (highly recommended) (2 credits)
EE 5460 - Solid State Devices - A study of the physical principles, operational characteristics and models and basic applications of solid state devices such as p-n junctions, metal- semiconductor junctions and transistors. (3 credits)
EE 5900 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering - check with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering every semester for course details. (variable upto 5) -- do with Dr. Pearce
EE 5480 - Advanced MEMS - This course will cover advanced topics dealing with MEIXIS technologies, transduction mechanisms, and microfabricated sensors and actuators and is a continuation of EE4240/MY4240 (4 credits)
EE 5440 - Laser Types, Laser Design, Modeling Techniques, and Nonlinear Optics - Survey of laser types and analysis of the common physical and engineering principles, including energy states, inversion, gain, and broadening mechanisms from a quantum mechanical perspective (3 credits).
EE 5992 - Practical Experience in Electrical Engineering - A collaboration with industry on some acceptable electrical engineering task and preparation of a report (variable to 4.0; May be repeated; Graded Pass/Fail Only) - Do with MOST group industry partners

potential non-ECE electives

PH 5410 - Quantum Mechanics
PH 5320 - Mathematical Physics

Recommended Seminar Courses for Electrical and Computer Engineering students in MOST group

EE 5940 - Electrophysics Seminar - Mandatory for PhD students (1 credit, can be taken twice for two semester to complete 2 credit requirements for PhD degree)

Recommended Courses for Material Science and Engineering students in MOST group

MY 5100 - Thermodynamics and Kinetics I - Solution thermodynamics and application to phase equilibria. Driving force for phase transformations. Chemical thermodynamics applied to materials processing. Corrosion and oxidation of metals. Applications to engineering situations. (3 credits)
MY 5430 - Electronic Materials - A study of the physical principles, operational characteristics, models, and basic applications of selected solid-state devices. (3 credits)
MY 5470 - Semiconductor Fabrication - Graduate level introduction to the science and engineering of semiconductor device fabrication (highly recommended). (3 credits)

Graduate Courses in Technical Areas Related to Photovoltaic Materials/Device/Systems Engineering

Graduate Courses in Applied Sustainability

Advanced Seminar in Energy and Climate Policy: SS6100

Related Programs, Minors, etc.

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 * EE 5940 - Electrophysics Seminar - Mandatory for PhD students (1 credit, can be taken twice for two semester to complete 2 credit requirements for PhD degree)
+====Recommended Courses for Material Science and Engineering students in MOST group====
+* MY 5100 - Thermodynamics and Kinetics I - Solution thermodynamics and application to phase equilibria. Driving force for phase transformations. Chemical thermodynamics applied to materials processing. Corrosion and oxidation of metals. Applications to engineering situations. (3 credits)
+* MY 5430 - Electronic Materials - A study of the physical principles, operational characteristics, models, and basic applications of selected solid-state devices. (3 credits)
+* MY 5470 - Semiconductor Fabrication - Graduate level introduction to the science and engineering of semiconductor device fabrication (highly recommended). (3 credits)
 ==Graduate Courses in Technical Areas Related to Photovoltaic Materials/Device/Systems Engineering==