You can obtain the 12-credit Graduate Certificate in Solar Energy as a stand-alone credential. Courses in the 12-credit solar energy graduate certificate can prepare you to lead project development in the rapidly expanding solar energy sector. The curriculum will cover topics such as:
- full systems perspective of a solar energy project, including financial policies and analysis tools required for development and implementation
- design tools, solar policies, financing tools, and factors affecting the short term and lifecycle costs of solar energy systems
- physical qualities of the solar resource, estimation of the fractional contributions of irradiance to total demand, and economic assessment of the solar resource
- power production from solar energy conversion, including conversion via photovoltaics
- theories and design practices of solar electric systems in the context of utility and commercial scale applications
