The Earth’s Energy and Mineral Resources: Geoscience Concepts and Challenges

3 credits · Undergraduate

The Earth’s crust hosts invaluable resources such as fuels, geothermal energy and critical minerals. This course will review these resources, introduce geoscience and geoengineering concepts for locating and utilizing them, and summarize some of the substantial and fascinating challenges for doing so effectively. This course provides students from different disciplines a broad technical background and some practical experience of multidisciplinary research for better use of the Earth’s resources.