Curriculum

Students at Bauer College have the opportunity to focus on energy across a range of majors and degree programs. With energy courses in supply chain, economics, accounting and insurance, undergraduates can build the basis that prepares them for a career in energy.

New Course: Fall 2025

The Business of Carbon Management

Bauer's Business of Carbon Management course is designed to introduce students to the significant changes to the global energy and related industries resulting from the transition to a low carbon energy world. The course will focus on the emerging business of reducing carbon emissions of the energy industry through carbon capture, use, and sequestration (CCUS).

Class topics include:

  • Current Global Energy System
  • Drivers of the Current Energy Transition and the Role of CCUS
  • Carbon Capture Technologies and Applications
  • Transporting and Storing CO2
  • CO2 Sequestration
  • Carbon Negative Technologies (DAC, MCDR, Bio)
  • Using Captured CO2
  • Impact of CCUS on Different Industries
  • Key CCUS Players and Potential Business Models
  • Managing Risks of CCUS Investments
  • Legal and Policy Issues of CCUS

New Degree Track: Fall 2025

Energy Commercial Program

The Energy Commercial Program (ECP) is designed to prepare undergraduate students for a broad range of commercial roles in the energy industry.

A wide-variety of Houston-based energy companies that recruit undergraduate students at Bauer have many different commercial functions that Bauer students could encounter in their careers. These companies have indicated their interest in students who are exposed to a broader set of these functions in an energy-industry context.

The program is constructed as a track for students pursuing BBA degrees. Students would apply and enter the program at the beginning of their junior year, coincident with choosing a Bauer major. The program would include a combination of required and elective classes as well as experiential learning involving a partner company.

Energy Courses & Certificates

Student Experiential Learning Projects

GEMI provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to learn about the energy industry through practical experiences. These include consulting projects for companies and research on leading edge energy topics, both of which can be completed for credit hours. GEMI also hosts competitions and provides support to student teams participating in competitions.

Current:

  • Go-to-Market strategy for an early stage energy-focused AI product
  • Texas Electricity for Growth
  • Repurposing USGC Refineries for Sustainable Energy and Chemical Product Production

Recently complete:

  • Scalable, Low-Cost Materials for Carbon Capture - Market and Competitive Analysis
  • Sustainable Electrochemical Marine-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal with Simultaneous Green Hydrogen Production - Market and Competitive Analysis
  • Resolving Challenges in National, State and Local CCUS Permitting Processes
  • Energy Poverty in Texas
  • Utilization of Captured Carbon in a Low-Carbon Energy World
  • Potential Evolution of the Low Carbon Hydrogen Industry and Opportunities for Management Consultants
  • North America Midstream Infrastructure Study

Mentorship Program

The goal is to help students be prepared post-graduation to identify strengths and opportunities for their career development and to expand their network within the multiple areas of the energy industry.

Areas of support by mentors:

  • Résumé and interview preparedness
  • Identification of the various types of roles available in the “energy space”
  • Identifying potential opportunities and growth
  • Advice for developing skills to help mentees in their career development such as communication and presentation
  • Network growth

Career Development Support