The Energy Management and Innovation Center is establishing a core of energy-specific business curriculum that will guide the education of business and policy leaders in the decades ahead. Approximately 60 MBA students and 100 undergraduate students participated in energy-specific courses, workshops, practicums and/or projects in 2010.

Through practicum and executive education courses, internships and guest lectures, students are exposed to the complex realities facing the energy industry. The Center reaches out to corporate partners and government experts to create a learning environment that reflects actual constraints and available resources.

Energy Majors include:

• Clean Tech Finance
  
• MBA Energy Finance
  
• BBA Energy Finance
Clean Tech Finance
• Clean Tech Marketing

Energy Workshops:

• Future of Hydrocarbon Market 101
  
• Power 101
  
• Energy Technology 101
  
• Alternative Energy 101

Executive Education:

Energy Certificate Program in Houston

Texas Executive Education offers non-degree programs for industry professionals, managers and executives. Improve your business acumen in an environment focused on the complexities of the energy field.  You may take these programs individually or combine classes to acheive your Energy Certificate.

• Energy Finance 
• Economics and Technology of the Crude Oil, Natural Gas and LNG Value Chains 
• Global Oil and Gas Accounting and Contracting Procedures 
• Introduction to Electric Power and the Economics and Technology of the Electric Power
  Value Chain 
• External Stakeholders and Political Risk/Legal Risk in Emerging Energy Markets 
• Business Valuation 
• Decision and Risk Analysis in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production 
• Energy Technology and Policy 

Custom Energy Programs for Company Clients

Make Texas Executive Education your strategic partner for designing and delivering customized programs that meet your organization’s specific goals. Please contact John Butler, Associate Director of EMIC, for more information regarding the energy curriculum.
    John.butler2@mccombs.utexas.edu 
    Phone: (512) 232-6821

Campus programs and organizations that encourage participation in energy-related studies:

CleanTech Group

The McCombs CleanTech Group is an MBA student organization whose mission is to promote an economically viable, sustainable, and “intelligent-energy” future, through the support of market and technology innovations in energy efficiency, sustainable development, renewable energy, and emissions abatement. We hope to achieve this goal by:

• Serving as a hub for networking and information exchange by connecting students with the businesses, investors and industry experts who are driving these innovations.
• Supporting our members’ professional development by providing access to events and opportunities in this rapidly developing sector of the economy.

Energy Finance Group

The Energy Finance Group has three primary support roles for the specialization in Energy Finance:

• Provide program support for industry practicums and independent research.
• Promote the program to prospective students, current students, and industry recruiters.
• Facilitate interaction between the faculty, students, and industry leaders through professional, social, and academic events.

Texas Energy Forum

The new Texas Energy Forum student group has also been launched. Check out their Facebook page (linked above) as they get this new group off the ground.