Department: Energy Science and Engineering
Contacts
Office: GESB 050
Mail Code: 94305-2220
Phone: (650) 723-4744
Email: ere@sesmail.stanford.edu
Web Site: https://earth.stanford.edu/ere
Courses offered by the Department of Energy Science and Engineering (ESE) are listed under the subject code ENERGY on the Stanford Bulletin's ExploreCourses web site.
The Department of Energy Science and Engineering (ESE) awards the following degrees: Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy in Energy Resources Engineering. The department also awards the Master of Science, Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Petroleum Engineering. Contact the ESE student services office to determine the relevant program.
Energy Science and Engineering contributes to the engineering science needed to maintain and diversify the energy supply while finding the most rapid pathways toward greater energy sustainability. Energy Science and Engineering is concerned with the production, transformation, and impacts of energy resources including renewables and fossil fuels. Oil and natural gas are important components of the current energy system due to their widespread use, economic importance, and contributions to climate change. The flow of water, oil, and gas in the subsurface are important to quantify accurately for energy recovery, energy storage, environmental assessment, and carbon storage.
The program also has a strong interest in related energy topics such as renewable energy, global climate change, carbon capture and sequestration, energy storage and energy systems. The Energy Science and Engineering curriculum provides a sound background in basic sciences and their application to practical problems to address the complex and changing nature of the field. Course work includes the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, geology, computational physics, numerical analysis, and engineering science. Applied courses cover most aspects of energy resources engineering and some related fields such as geostatistics. The curriculum includes the fundamental aspects of energy transfer and fluid flow in subsurface geologic formations, as well as the storage, transmission and utilization of energy at the surface. These principles apply to the optimization of energy recovery from hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs, subsurface sequestration of carbon dioxide, energy storage, and the remediation of groundwater systems.
Faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars conduct research in areas including: energy system modeling and optimization; energy storage; data assimilation and uncertainty quantification; numerical reservoir simulation; carbon sequestration; enhanced oil recovery; geostatistical reservoir characterization; geothermal engineering; production optimization; power production from wind and wave energy; and well test analysis. Undergraduates are encouraged to participate in research projects.
The department is housed in the Green Earth Sciences Building and operates laboratories for research in batteries and energy storage, enhanced oil recovery processes, geological carbon storage operations, and geothermal engineering. Students have access to a variety of computer platforms and software for research and course work.
Faculty
Emeriti: (Professors) Khalid Aziz, Margot Gerritsen, Franklin M. Orr, Jr.
Chair: Hamdi Tchelepi
Director of Graduate Studies: Roland N. Horne
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Anthony R. Kovscek
Professors: Sally M. Benson, Stacey Bent, Steven Chu, Yi Cui, Louis J. Durlofsky, Roland N. Horne, Anthony R. Kovscek, Arunava Majumdar, Kathryn Moler, Tapan Mukerji, Daniel M. Tartakovsky, Hamdi Tchelepi, John Weyant, Xiaolin Zheng
Associate Professors: Inês Azevedo, Adam Brandt, William Chueh, Thomas Jaramillo
Assistant Professors: Ilenia Battiato, Simona Onori
Courtesy Professors: Stephan A. Graham, Mark Jacobson
Adjunct Faculty: Alan Burnham, David Danielson, Birol Dindoruk, Jacques de Chalendar, Warren K. Kourt, Jonathan Lilien, Joel Moxley, Kiran Pande, Richard Sears, Marco R. Thiele, Denis V. Voskov