Concentration Information

Learning Objectives

Graduates of the Energy, Climate, and the Environment program achieve the following objectives as part of their program completion, and they are trained to become solutions focused and informed leaders prepared to address real-world challenges in energy and climate.

• Disciplinary Depth with Multidisciplinary Literacy & Collaborative Leadership: The ability to operate effectively within "T-shaped" professional environments, leveraging deep expertise in a specific track while communicating and collaborating fluently with experts across science and engineering, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities to address systemic societal challenges.
• Integrated Problem-Solving & Design Thinking: The capacity to translate complex, large-scale energy and environmental challenges into tractable problems through an iterative design process that incorporates stakeholder needs, real-world boundary conditions, and iterative experimentation.
• Technical & Disciplinary Mastery for their Track: A rigorous command of the quantitative and qualitative foundations, methods, and tools specific to their chosen track; ranging from energy systems and climate science to economic policy analysis and historical critique.
• Synthesis of Theory and Real-World Application: The proficiency to apply academic frameworks to real-world scenarios through experiential learning and team-based capstones, resulting in viable solutions that account for technical, social, and cultural dimensions of energy-climate issues.