Postgraduate Courses

This course attempts to highlight the basic issues on the relation between material/energy resources, the environment and sustainable development. Potential directions for technological changes on greater efficiency of energy utilization, exploitation of renewable energy, adoption of cleaner environmental practices and waste reduction that can lead to sustainable development will be explored.

Fundamental aspects of technical and energy management in a sustainable economy. Topics include defining energy and environmental strategy and program objectives, planning, staffing, budgeting, organization, motivation, leadership, implementation, review and evaluation, and promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.

Conventional and unconventional fabrication of nanostructures including electron beam lithography, nanoimprint, chemical synthesis, self-assembly, etc.; size dependent electronic and optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials; large-scale assembly and integration of nanomaterials for electronics; energy harvesting and storage devices using nanoelectronic materials.

Analysis of power semiconductor device technologies in the context of electric power conversion and transmission; emphasis on the understanding of the critical roles of semiconductor device technologies in power and energy conversion. The mainstream silicon and emerging semiconductor power devices technologies; material properties, device structure design, advanced fabrication techniques, and device characteristics. Critical device-circuit interaction issues and basic power electronics circuits will be covered focusing on the role of these circuits in electric power conversion and transmission.

Elementary statistical concepts; ensembles and postulates; partition functions and their properties; calculation of thermodynamic properties; kinetic theory of transport process; fluctuation-dissipation theorem; Langevin equation; mass and heat transfer in fuel cells.

This course will exam "Green Computing" from a system perspective, meanwhile, students will study issues related to energy saving form multiple disciplines such as mechanical engineering, industrial ecology, and economics. We will explore energy efficient system designs ranging from datacenters to embed devices, such as sensor networks and RFID devices. We will perform Life Cycle Analysis on some of these systems, evaluating the carbon footprint of manufacturing, use, and disposal of each design.

Advanced topic series presented by the professors and guest speakers, on most updated frontier researches in Energy Technology. Graded P or F.