Spring 2027

Sustainable Energy Challenges and Solutions

Interdisciplinary survey of energy research topics analyzing sustainable energy challenges through a multi-disciplinary, systems-based approach across science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Scott Williams3.6/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of affordable and clean energy

  • Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach

  • Describe the technical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions of affordable and clean energy and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course

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Prerequisites

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Declared in the Certificate in Engineering for Energy Sustainability or Engineering: Sustainable Systems Engineering, MEng

  • Declared in the Certificate in Engineering for Energy Sustainability or Engineering: Sustainable Systems Engineering, MEng
EP 418

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  • Declared in the Certificate in Engineering for Energy Sustainability or Engineering: Sustainable Systems Engineering, MEng

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SCOTT WILLIAMS is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 003Online Only0 / 60
LEC 002Online Only0 / 60

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Sustainable energy challenges across science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities
  • Technical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions of affordable and clean energy

Skills

  • Analyzing causes and solutions for sustainable energy challenges
  • Applying a systems-based approach to analyze sustainability issues
  • Describing technical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions of energy and identifying trade-offs

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EP 418 · Spring 2027

Sustainable Energy Challenges and Solutions

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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