Program Overview

Naveen Jindal School of Management

The Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a Master of Science in Energy Management degree program. This program is designed to prepare students for careers in energy companies, including oil, gas, coal, renewable energy, and electricity, as well as banks and financial institutions that trade energy commodities.

Faculty

The faculty for the Master of Science in Energy Management program includes:

• Professors:
  • Ashiq Ali
  • Gary Bolton
  • William M. Cready
  • Theodore E. Day
  • Umit G. Gurun
  • Stanley Liebowitz
  • Vikram Nanda
  • Suresh Radhakrishnan
  • Michael J. Rebello
  • Harold Zhang
• Associate Professors:
  • Nina Baranchuk
  • Zhonglan Dai
  • Rebecca Files
  • Kyle Hyndman
  • Surya N. Janakiraman
  • Robert L. Kieschnick Jr.
  • Jun Li
  • Ningzhong Li
  • Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan
  • Naim Bugra Ozel
  • Gil Sadka
  • David J. Springate
  • Kelsey D. Wei
  • Han (Victor) Xia
  • Yexiao Xu
  • Alejandro Zentner
  • Jieying Zhang
  • Yuan Zhang
  • Feng Zhao
  • Yibin Zhou
• Assistant Professors:
  • Meng Li
  • Jean-Marie Meier
  • Alejandro Rivera Mesias
  • Alessio Saretto
  • Simon Siegenthaler
  • Christian Von-Drathen
  • Steven Xiao
• Professor Emeritus:
  • Dale Osborne
• Clinical Professors:
  • John Barden
  • David Cordell
  • John Gamino
  • Randall S. Guttery
  • Peter Lewin
  • Jeffrey Manzi
• Clinical Associate Professor:
  • Carolyn Reichert
• Clinical Assistant Professors:
  • Moran Blueshtein
  • Ayfer Gurun
  • Revansiddha Khanapure
  • Liping Ma
  • Drew Peabody
• Senior Lecturers:
  • Frank Anderson
  • Tiffany A. Bortz
  • Richard Bowen
  • George DeCourcy
  • Amal El-Ashmawi
  • Mary Beth Goodrich
  • Jennifer G. Johnson
  • Chris Linsteadt
  • Joseph Mauriello
  • Robert (Stephen) Molina
  • Matt Polze
  • Debra Richardson
  • Steven Solcher
  • Kathy Zolton

Degree Requirements

The Master of Science in Energy Management degree program requires a minimum of 36 semester credit hours. The program is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) degree that prepares students for careers in the energy industry. To apply for this degree program, an undergraduate degree is required, and students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) in both core courses and all graduate courses taken in the degree program.

Prerequisites

Students pursuing the Master of Science in Energy Management degree program are required to complete one semester credit hour of MAS 6102 Professional Development. Additionally, knowledge of calculus and statistics is required, and students who have not completed undergraduate calculus and statistics courses may satisfy the prerequisites by completing OPRE 6303 Quantitative Foundations of Business and OPRE 6301 Statistics and Data Analysis.

Course Requirements

• Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours
  • ACCT 6305 Accounting for Managers
  • FIN 6301 Financial Management
  • MECO 6303 Business Economics
  • OPRE 6302 Operations Management
  • And choose four courses from the following:
    • ENGY 6330 Energy Law and Contracts
    • FIN 6335 Energy Finance
    • FIN 6336 Energy Joint Interest Accounting
    • MECO 6318 Energy Economics and The Cost of Regulation
    • OPRE 6389 Managing Energy: Risk, Investment, Technology (MERIT)
• Elective Courses: 12 semester credit hours
  • Students may select 12 semester credit hours from the list of elective courses or from one of the specialized tracks.

Energy Management Tracks

The MS Energy Management degree program offers students the opportunity to focus on a specific track or combination to obtain in-depth knowledge in a specific business area. The tracks include:

• Energy Risk Management Track:
  • FIN 6307 Mathematical Methods for Finance
  • FIN 6318 Analytics of Finance
  • FIN 6360 Derivatives Markets
  • OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
• Energy Analytics Track:
  • MECO 6312 Applied Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
  • MKT 6337 Predictive Analytics Using SAS
  • OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
  • OPRE 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
• International Energy Management Track:
  • IMS 6360 International Strategic Management
  • IMS 6365 Cross-Culture Communication and Management
  • OB 6331 Power and Politics in Organizations
  • OB 6332 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
• Energy Operations Track:
  • OPRE 6366 Global Supply Chain Management
  • OPRE 6370 Global Logistics and Transportation
  • OPRE 6371 Purchasing, Sourcing and Contract Management
  • OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy