Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Sustainable Engineering & Renewable Energy
About This Program
The Sustainable Engineering and Renewable Energy (SERE) Graduate Certificate equips students to generate and evaluate sustainable engineering design alternatives, with a particular focus on renewable energy systems and their integration in buildings and infrastructure.
Competencies
- Upon completion, students will be able to explain general sustainability concepts and analyze sustainability situations/issues.
- Upon completion, students will be able to generate creative and innovative sustainable engineering design alternatives.
- Upon completion, students will be able to use life cycle assessment tools to analyze environmental, economic, and social impacts of various design alternatives.
- Upon completion, students will be able to incorporate life cycle assessment into alternatives evaluation.
Admissions Criteria
For students in a College of Engineering master’s or PhD program at the time of enrollment for the SERE Certificate, the admission requirement will be to be in good standing, as defined by their department/program, which includes having a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Existing students can earn this certificate by completing the required courses and submitting a Request for Certificate to the UTA Office of Records.
Unconditional Admission is granted if all the following conditions are met:
- A bachelor’s degree in an engineering with a minimum GPA of 3.0 or a current enrollment in an engineering master’s program at UTA with a minimum GPA of 3.0.
- Those who desire the certificate program without enrolling in graduate degree program must be admitted to UTA as a non‐degree certificate-seeking student.
- If English is not the applicant's native language, he/she should meet the CE admission requirement on TOEFL iBT, or IELTS. International applicants who have successfully completed a BS or MS from an institution in the United States and are not seeking funding as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, are not required to meet this requirement.
Remedial work may be required for the applicant without an engineering or science background.
Non-degree seeking students must satisfy the admission requirements established by the Graduate School for special non-degree-seeking and graduate certificate applicants.
Curriculum
| Foundations | ||
| CE 5323 | SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING | 3 |
| MSE 5353 | FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select a course from each of two different areas below in consultation with the program manager or graduate advisor. | 6 | |
| Environmental Impacts | ||
| ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT | ||
| ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS | ||
| ENGINEERING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS | ||
| FUNDAMENTALS OF AIR POLLUTION | ||
| CIVIL ENGINEERING INFORMATICS | ||
| SOLID WASTE ENGINEERING | ||
| CONSTRUCTION SUSTAINABILITY | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF CHEMICAL HAZARDS | ||
or EVSE 5313 | ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF CHEMICAL HAZARDS | |
| INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | ||
or EVSE 5323 | ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | |
| ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS-BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS-CHEMICAL ASPECTS | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS-GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL RISK BASED ACTION | ||
| TOXICOLOGY | ||
| ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO MICRO AND NANOFLUIDICS | ||
| GREEN CITIES AND TRANSPORTATION | ||
| GIS AND SUITABILITY ANALYSIS | ||
| ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT POLICY & PRACTICE | ||
| Economic Impacts | ||
| PAVEMENT EVALUATION, REHABILITATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | ||
| CONSTRUCTION FINANCE | ||
| MANAGEMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS | ||
| CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY | ||
| ADVANCED ENGINEERING ECONOMY | ||
| INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP | ||
| Social Impacts | ||
| POLYMERS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY | ||
| FORMULATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS | ||
| MACHINE LEARNING FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING | ||
| HUMAN INTERACTION IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT | ||
| BUILDING SCIENCE II | ||
| CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY | ||
| SAFETY ENGINEERING | ||
| HUMAN ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS | ||
| SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP | ||
| HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT | ||
| Renewable Energy & Renewable Energy Technologies | ||
| ENERGY USE AND CONSERVATION IN ARCHITECTURE | ||
| POWER SYSTEM MODELING AND ANALYSIS | ||
| POWER SYSTEM PLANNING, OPERATION, AND CONTROL IN A DEREGULATED ENVIRONMENT | ||
| POWER SYSTEM PROTECTIVE RELAYING | ||
| POWER SYSTEM DISTRIBUTION | ||
| POWER QUALITY | ||
| RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS | ||
| FUEL CELLS AND APPLICATIONS | ||
| RESEARCH TRENDS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES | ||
| WIND & OCEAN CURRENT ENERGY HARVESTING FUNDAMENTALS | ||
| MATERIALS FOR ENERGY | ||
| Decision Analysis | ||
| MEDICAL PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT | ||
| SYSTEM EVALUATION | ||
| INFRASTRUCTURE EVALUATION, MAINTENANCE, AND RENEWAL | ||
| ADVANCED MATERIALS MECHANICAL TESTING AND CHARACTERIZATION | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS RESEARCH | ||
| DECISION ANALYSIS | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ENGINEERING | ||
| Total Hours | 12 | |
Courses completed as part of a Sustainable Engineering and Renewable Energy Graduate Certificate will also satisfy requirements for master’s or PhD programs in various engineering and other departments. Courses in addition to those listed above can be used to fulfill certificate requirements with approval of the program manager.
Program Completion
Students must earn at least a C in all courses and have a cumulative 3.0 GPA to obtain the certificate. The certificate will be posted to the student’s transcript upon completion. The time limit for completion of the certificate is 6 years.