Survey of Energy Technology
ENG-SCI 229

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as ENG-SCI 231, Graduate School of Design as SCI 6277

2027 Spring

Full Term

Jan. 25, 2027 – Apr. 28, 2027

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Cambridge Campus

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Class Number: 12893

Course ID: 109282

Consent: Instructor

Enrollment: 0/30

Waitlist: 0

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Description

Principles governing energy generation and interconversion. Current and projected world energy use. Selected important current and anticipated future technologies for energy generation, interconversion, storage, and end usage.

Course Notes

This course must be taken Sat/Unsat. Cannot be used for SEAS concentration credit. Students may not take both Engineering Sciences 229 and Engineering Sciences 231 for credit. The enrollment cap is for ES 229 and ES 231 combined. This course meets on Wed/Fri 3-4:15pm with occasional makeup classes on Mondays 3-4:15pm to make up for instructor travel.

Recommended Prep

Calculus of a single variable, one semester of college-level physics, and familiarity with chemistry at the high school advanced placement level.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Credits 4

Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Engineering Sciences

Course Component Lecture

Subject Engineering Sciences

Grading Basis FAS Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

General Education N/A

Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A

Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science

Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students