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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.

    Program Courses

    Core

    Two required courses.
    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 800
    Energy Economics and Policy Analysis         		  Gillingham
    ENV 814
    Energy Systems Analysis         		Rao  

    Elective

    Students must take at least one course from each of the following three bins:

    Energy Policy and Governance

    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 789
    Energy and Development         		  Rao
    ENV 816
    Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition         		Rhodes  
    ENV 824
    Environmental Law and Policy         		  Klee
    ENV 840
    Climate Change Policy and Perspectives         		Klee  
    GLBL 230
    Managing the Clean Energy Transition: Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Policy Making    		        

    Energy Technologies and Industries

    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 716
    Renewable Energy         		  Oristaglio
    Tentative
    ENV 773
    Air Pollution Control (APC)         		Gentner  
    ENV 884
    Industrial Ecology         		Faculty  
    CENG 377 
    Water-Energy Nexus    		        
    CHEM 505a
    Alternative Energy    		        
    ENAS 609
    Nanotechnology for Energy    		        
    ENAS 755
    Electronic and Optical Properties of Energy Materials    		        
    EENG 406b /
    ENAS 806b
    Photovoltaic Energy    		        
    G&G 274a
    Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions    		        
    HSHM 201 
    Sustainable Energy: Physics and History    		        

    Quantitative Methods for Energy Analysis

    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 635
    Renewable Energy Project Finance         		  Gross
    ENV 730
    Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning         		Malone  
    ENV 758
    Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences         		  Reuning-Scherer
    ENV 819
    Measuring and Visualizing Urban Environments         		  Salazar Miranda
    ECON 132
    Econometrics and Data Analysis II    		        
    ECON 331
    Economics of Energy and Climate Change    		        
    ECON 333 
    Energy and Environmental Economics    		        
    ECON 412
    International Environmental Economics    		        
    ECON 545
    Microeconomics (IDE)    		        
    ECON 558
    Statistics and Econometrics (IDE)    		        
    ECON 550/551
    Econometrics    		        
    MGT 842
    Financing Green Technologies    		        

    Additional 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 History    		        
    ANTH 438
    Culture, Power, Oil 2    		        
    APHY 100  
    Energy, Environment, and Public Policy    		        
    EVST 296  
    Chernobyl: A History of Energy and the Environment    		        

    Energy, Climate, and Health

    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 725
    Water, Energy, and Food Interconnections in a Changing Climate         		  Saiers

    Interdisciplinary

    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 894
    Green Building: Issues and Perspectives         		Kops  
    ENV 982
    Bio-inspired Design and Engineering         		  Zimmerman
    ARCH 4254  
    The (Built) Environment: environmental design and urban transformation in practice    		        
    LC Energy Illustration

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