Program Overview

Naveen Jindal School of Management

Master of Science in Energy Management

The Master of Science in Energy Management (MS EM) is a 36 semester credit hours STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degree program that prepares students for careers in energy companies, including oil, gas, renewable energy, and electricity, as well as banks and financial institutions that trade energy commodities, energy-focused consulting firms, and major energy-consuming corporations.

Faculty

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

• Professors:
  • Ashiq Ali
  • Alain Bensoussan
  • Gary Bolton
  • Metín Çakanyildirim
  • Daniel A. Cohen
  • William M. Cready
  • Milind Dawande
  • Theodore E. Day
  • Umit G. Gurun
  • Ganesh Janakiraman
  • Elena Katok
  • Stanley Liebowitz
  • Vikram Nanda
  • Shun-Chen Niu
  • Özalp Özer
  • Suresh Radhakrishnan
  • Michael J. Rebello
  • Suresh P. Sethi
  • Kathryn E. Stecke
  • John J. Wiorkowski
  • Harold Zhang
• Professor Emeritus:
  • Dale Osborne
• Clinical Professors:
  • John Barden
  • David Cordell
  • Randall S. Guttery
  • Peter Lewin
  • Jeffrey Manzi
  • Divakar Rajamani
  • Kannan Ramanathan
• Associate Professors:
  • Nina Baranchuk
  • Zhonglan Dai
  • Rebecca Files
  • Dorothée Honhon
  • Kyle Hyndman
  • Surya N. Janakiraman
  • Robert L. Kieschnick Jr.
  • Ningzhong Li
  • Alp Muharremoglu
  • Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan
  • Valery Polkovnichenko
  • Gil Sadka
  • David J. Springate
  • Kelsey D. Wei
  • Han (Victor) Xia
  • Yexiao Xu
  • Alejandro Zentner
  • Jieying Zhang
  • Yuan Zhang
  • Feng Zhao
  • Yibin Zhou
• Clinical Associate Professors:
  • Sonia Leach
  • Carolyn Reichert
  • Avanti P. Sethi
• Assistant Professors:
  • Bernhard Ganglmair
  • Bin Li
  • Jun Li
  • Meng Li
  • Naim Bugra Ozel
  • Arzu Ozoguz
  • Anyan Qi
  • Alejandro Rivera Mesias
  • Alessio Saretto
  • Serdar Simsek
  • Christian Von-Drathen
  • Malcolm Wardlaw
  • Steven Xiao
  • Shengqi Ye
  • Nir Yehuda
  • Xiaofei Zhao
• Clinical Assistant Professors:
  • Shawn Alborz
  • Athena Alimirzaei
  • Moran Blueshtein
  • John Gamino
  • Ayfer Gurun
  • Revansiddha Khanapure
  • Liping Ma
  • Drew Peabody
  • Anastasia V. Shcherbakova
• Visiting Assistant Professor:
  • Lale Guler
• Senior Lecturers:
  • Arthur M. Agulnek
  • Frank Anderson
  • Anindita Bardhan
  • Tiffany A. Bortz
  • Richard Bowen
  • Monica E. Brussolo
  • George DeCourcy
  • Eugene (Gene) Deluke
  • Amal El-Ashmawi
  • Carol Flannery
  • Mary Beth Goodrich
  • Jennifer G. Johnson
  • Chris Linsteadt
  • Joseph Mauriello
  • Matt Polze
  • James Richards
  • Debra Richardson
  • Steven Solcher
  • Amy L. Troutman
  • Kathy Zolton

Degree Requirements

To apply for this degree program, an undergraduate degree is required (all majors are considered). Students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) in both core courses and in aggregate courses to qualify for the MS degree.

Prerequisites

Students pursuing the Master of Science in Energy Management (MS EM) degree program are required to complete one semester credit hour of ENGY 6102 Professional Development or its equivalent. In addition, knowledge of calculus and statistics are required. Applicants who have not satisfied these requirements may be admitted but will need to satisfy the prerequisites within the first 12 semester credit hours of graduate study.

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 Accounting and Taxation
    • MECO 6318 Energy Economics
    • 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 below or from one of the specialized tracks.
  • Elective courses include:
    • ENGY 6331 Capstone Project in Energy
    • FIN 6341 Energy Risk Management
    • FIN 6360 Options and Futures Markets
    • IMS 6343 Sustainability in a Global Business Environment
    • IMS 6360 International Strategic Management
    • IMS 6365 Cross-Culture Communication and Management
    • MECO 6312 Applied Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
    • MECO 6352 Financial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
    • OB 6332 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
    • OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
    • OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
    • OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
    • OPRE 6366 Global Supply Chain Management
    • OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
    • OPRE 6370 Global Logistics and Transportation
    • OPRE 6371 Purchasing, Sourcing and Contract Management
    • GISC 6381 Geographic Information Systems Fundamentals

MS in Energy Management Tracks

• Energy Risk Management Track:
  • FIN 6306 Quantitative Methods in Finance
  • FIN 6360 Options and Futures Markets
  • Or
  • OPRE 7310 Probability and Stochastic Processes
  • FIN 6381 Introductory Mathematical Finance
  • FIN 6341 Energy Risk Management
  • MECO 6352 Financial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  • 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 6343 Sustainability in a Global Business Environment
  • IMS 6360 International Strategic Management
  • IMS 6365 Cross-Culture Communication and Management
  • OB 6331 Power and Politics in Organization
  • OB 6332 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  • OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
• 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