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=user:Pfrancher =Energy Engineering= Energy Engineering is one of the more recent engineering disciplines to emerge. Energy Engineering combines knowledge from the fields of physics, math, and chemistry with economic and environmental engineering practices. Energy Engineers handle apply their skills to increase efficiency and further develop renewable sources of energy. The main job of energy engineers it to find the most efficient and sustainable ways to operate buildings and manufacturing processes. Energy engineers audit the use of energy in those processes and suggest ways to improve the systems. This means suggesting advanced lighting, better insulation, more efficient heating and cooling properties of buildings. Although an energy engineer is concerned about obtaining and using energy in the most environmentally friendly ways, their field is not limited to strictly renewable energy like hydro, solar, biomass, or geothermal. Energy engineers are also employed by the fields of oil and natural gas extraction.

Purpose
Energy minimization is the purpose of this growing discipline. Often applied to building design, heavy consideration is given to HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, to both reduce energy loads and increase efficiency of current systems. Energy Engineering is increasingly seen as a major step forward in meeting carbon reduction targets.

History
Human beings have been transferring energy from one form to another since their use of fire. The efficiency of the transfer of energy is a new field. The Oil Crisis of 1973 and Energy Crisis of 1979 brought to light the need to get more work out of less energy. The United States government passed several laws in the seventies to promote increased energy efficiency, such as United States public law 94-413, the Federal Clean Car Incentive Program.

subcategory
Considered a subdivision of energy engineering, power engineering applies math and physics to the movement and transfer of energy to work in a system.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a program created by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)in March of 2000. LEED is a program encourages green building and promotes sustainability in the construction of buildings and the efficiency of the utilities in the buildings.

In 2012 the United States Green Building Council asked the independent firm Booz Allen Hamilton to conduct a study on the effectiveness of LEED program. "This study confirmed that green buildings generate substantial energy savings. From 2000–2008, green construction and renovation generated $1.3 billion in energy savings. Of that $1.3 billion, LEED-certified buildings accounted for $281 million." The study also found the summation of all green construction supported 2.4 million jobs.

Statistics
The median yearly salary for an energy engineering is $64,493 U.S. dollars. 83% of energy engineers are male while the remaining 17% are female. 65% of energy engineers have less than five years of experience in their profession.

energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is seen two ways. The first view is that more work is done from the same amount of energy used. The other perception is that the same amount of work is accomplished with less energy used in the system. Some ways to get more work out of less energy is to "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle" the materials used in daily life. The advancement of technology has led to other uses of waste. Technology such as waste-to-energy facilities which convert solid wastes through the process of gasification or pryolysis to liquid fuels to be burned. The Environmental Protection Agency stated that the United States produced 250 million tuns of municipal waste in 2010. Of that 250 million tons roughly 54% gets thrown in land fills, 33% is recycled, and 13% goes to energy recovery plants. In European countries who pay more for fuel, such as Denmark where the price for a gallon of gas neared $10 in 2010, have more fully developed waste-to energy facilities. In 2010 Denmark sent 7% of waste to landfills, 69% was recycled, and 24% was sent to waste-to-energy facilities. There are several other developed Western European countries that also have taken energy engineering into consideration. Germany's "Energiewende", a policy which set the goal by 2050 to meet 80% of electrical needs from renewable energy sources.

Professional Organizations
Energy Engineers have one main professional organization. The is the Association of Energy Engineers(AEE) founded in 1977. It now has 16,000 members in 89 countries. The organizations main responsibility is to lead energy certification programs to teach individuals across the world and certify as qualified to perform the job of an energy engineer.

education
A bachelor’s degree is a primary requirement of becoming an energy engineer. Some energy engineers are registered Profession Engineers; although the completion of that program is not a necessity. Of the 16,000 energy engineers that are in the AEE 58.4% have post-graduate degrees from accredited colleges, while the remaining 41.6% do not. If the engineer does is not a P.E. he or she would need a Certified Engineering Manager (CEM) certificate from a group like the AEE. While a student who wants to become an energy engineer does not directly need to get a degree in energy engineering to eventually become an energy engineer; several colleges have started energy engineering majors to better prepare future engineers for their career ahead. University of California Berkley, Pennsylvania State, Texas A & M, Purdue, are a few prodigious schools who have all set up new energy engineering bachelor degree programs to keep up with the growing field.

=June 4th Facts of Energy Engineering= way, many experts believe that these sorts of waste-to-energy systems can be critical for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and non-renewable materials and for improving our environment."
 * "If it is done in a sustainable
 * "In Denmark, 69% of waste is recycled,7% landfilled, and 24 sent to waste-to-energy plants"
 * Energy efficiency is seen two ways. The first view is that more work is done for the same amount of energy used. The other perception is that the same amount of work is accomplished with less energy used in the system.
 * "Another good example is Energy Engineering. This is usually taken to mean the application of a mix of engineering disciplines, such as mechanical and electrical engineering, to solving the problems of extracting, collecting and utilising energy resources to satisfy human needs without destroying the environment."
 * With out energy all other resources are unable to be gathered, this makes energy the single most important resource to human-kind.
 * "How much energy do you think all the houses and buildings in the United States consume? It turns out they eat up 40% of all the energy that the U.S. uses in a year. The figure is high because all those houses and buildings need to be heated, cooled, lit, ventilated, and supplied with heated water and electricity to run all sorts of electrical devices, appliances, and computers."
 * "An energy engineer is involved with the production of energy through natural resources, such as the extraction of oil and gas, as well as from renewable or sustainable sources of energy, including biofuels, hydro, wind and solar power."