Energy and the Environment Specialization
The specialization prepares students to help lead in developing a more equitable, efficient, and cleaner energy future.
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Graduates of the Energy Specialization will be prepared to work in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, private sector energy firms, energy consultancies and renewable energy start-ups, energy service companies, international financial institutions and development agencies, government agencies, and environmental think-tanks.
Note that a capstone course used to fulfill the MEM capstone requirement cannot also be used toward fulfilling an MEM Specialization requirement; a capstone course taken once cannot be used to fulfill multiple requirements. Learn more about YSE capstone courses by visiting the MEM Capstone page.
Energy and the Environment
Elective
Students must take at least one course from each of the following three bins:Energy Policy and Governance
Course NameFall 2026Spring 2027Fall 2027Spring 2028GLBL 230
Managing the Clean Energy Transition: Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Policy MakingEnergy Technologies and Industries
CENG 377
Water-Energy NexusCHEM 505a
Alternative EnergyECE 4081/8081
Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices and Engineering (Lecture & Lab)ECE 8680
Emerging Materials and Technologies toward SustainabilityEENG 406b / ENAS 806b
Photovoltaic EnergyENAS 609
Nanotechnology for EnergyENAS 755
Electronic and Optical Properties of Energy MaterialsG&G 274a
Fossil Fuels and Energy TransitionsHSHM 201
Sustainable Energy: Physics and HistoryMGT 692
Climate Tech Innovation and CommercializationQuantitative Methods for Energy Analysis
Course NameFall 2026Spring 2027Fall 2027Spring 2028ENV 730
Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine LearningECON 132
Econometrics and Data Analysis IIECON 331
Economics of Energy and Climate ChangeECON 333
Energy and Environmental EconomicsECON 412
International Environmental EconomicsECON 545
Microeconomics (IDE)ECON 558
Statistics and Econometrics (IDE)ECON 550/551
EconometricsMGT 842
Financing Green TechnologiesAdditional Elective
Energy Analysis students are required to take one additional course. Students are encouraged to choose this course to develop an expertise in a particular area of study pertaining to energy and the environment. This course can be drawn either from the list above or from the following other energy-related courses at Yale.
Note: ENV 612, “Transforming Global Value Chains for Sustainability: The Case of Fashion and Textiles” Can be used as an additional elective if the term project is in Energy. Approval by Prof. Rao is needed.Energy and Society
AMST 236
American Energy HistoryANTH 438
Culture, Power, Oil 2APHY 100
Energy, Environment, and Public PolicyEVST 296
Chernobyl: A History of Energy and the EnvironmentInterdisciplinary
ARCH 4254
The (Built) Environment: environmental design and urban transformation in practice
Learning Community
There is a corresponding “Learning Community” for each specialization, where anyone interested in the topic can find related news, spotlights, colleagues, and events.
Faculty Coordinator
Staff Manager
Julia Nojeim
Clean Energy Coordinator; Staff Manager, Energy and the Environment Learning Community