ENERGY630

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Transportation and Energy

Environmental Sciences NSOE - Nicholas School of Environment

Subject

ENERGY

Catalog Number

630

Title

Transportation and Energy

Course Description

Examination of transportation-related energy use and its impact on the environment. Learn how technology, infrastructure, and policy, as well as personal and cultural preferences, interact to meet demands for personal mobility and freight movement. Cutting across these themes will be consideration of strategies to reduce transportation energy use and its environmental impacts, with an introduction to information resources and tools for evaluating both. Provides opportunities to hone problem solving and analytical skills, and challenges students to think critically and creatively about the trade-offs among complex transportation options.

Grading Basis

Graded

Consent (Permission Number)

No Special Consent Required

Min Units

3

Max Units

3

Lecture

Crosslisted Courses

General Education Curriculum Codes

(STS) Sci, Tech, and Society, (SS) Social Sciences