🐯 Princeton Energy Studies unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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| Sophomore level | |
|---|---|
| Designing Sustainable Systems: Experiential Learning on Campus Energy ENE 202 |
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by McDonough & Braungart • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus • Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows |
| The Habitable Planet ENE 203 |
• Earth: Portrait of a Planet by Stephen Marshak |
| Thermodynamics ENE 221 |
• Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach by Cengel et al. |
| Senior level | |
|---|---|
| Solid-State Physics I ENE 441 |
• Solid State Physics by Ashcroft & Mermin |
| Energy & Commodities Markets ENE 455 |
◦ Optimization Models in Electricity Markets by Anthony Papavasiliou ◦ The Economist Guide to Commodities: Producers, Players & Prices; Markets, Consumers & Trends by Caroline Bain ◦ Commodity Price Dynamics: A Structural Approach by Craig Pirrong ◦ Valuation & Risk Management in Energy Markets by Glen Swindle ◦ Energy & Power Risk Management: New Developments in Modeling, Pricing & Hedging by Eydeland & Wolyniec |
| Graduate level | |
|---|---|
| Membrane Separations for Energy & the Environment ENE 504 |
• Membrane Technology & Applications by Richard W. Baker |
| Energy & the Environment: Critical Assessment of Energy, Sustainability & Climate ENE 598 |
• The Simple Physics of Energy Use by Peter Rez • Fundamentals of Materials for Energy & Environmental Sustainability by Ginley and Cahen • Critical Materials by Alexander King ◦ Energy Survival Guide: Insight and Outlook by Jo Hermans ◦ The Physics of Energy by Jaffe & Taylor • Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air by David MacKay |
| Modeling Environmental Geochemistry ENE 599 |
• Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry by Donald Langmuir ◦ Description of Input & Examples for PHREEQC Version 3: A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch-Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport & Inverse Geochemical Calculations by Parkhurst & Apello ◦ Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction by Brantley et al. ◦ Environmental Modeling: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Water, Air & Soil by Jerald L. Schnoor |