Operational Energy - Curriculum 321 (DL)
The Master of Operational Energy (OE) is an asynchronous distributed learning (DL) degree program that equips graduates with the essential skills and knowledge to enhance their effectiveness in the modern battlespace.
The OE degree is designed to be completed by combining a sequence of NPS graduate-level certificates in areas related to operations research, energy, war and peacetime logistics, autonomous systems, and defense energy. The program’s flexible design provides sponsoring agencies and students the ability to achieve specific professional education goals by selecting a tailored combination of certificates. Students will enroll in Case Studies for Operational Energy; a four credit-hour quarter class cumulating knowledge from each certificate.
The OE degree program is open to any U.S. military officers and U.S. Government civilians, as well as international students and defense contractors, who are eligible for entry to NPS certificate programs. The Master of Operational Energy program must be completed within 5 years.
Outcomes
- Analyze gaps in the joint operational energy approach across all domains using the case study methodology.
- Conduct a formal assessment of energy requirements and constraints for a persistent unmanned system in a written assignment.
- Support staff with information and provide guidance in the basic technologies, concepts, and laws and assumptions associated with the use of autonomous, robotics, and unmanned systems in military operations in practical exercises.
- Ensure that operationally employed logistics infrastructures satisfy the energy requirements of the supported systems in discussion and practical exercises.
- Create modeling specific to decreasing risks in contested environments in practical exercises.
- Propose military technologies based on physics concepts in written assignments.
Typical Course of Study
The following certificate programs show the course of study a student will take to complete the master's degree in Operational Energy.
Refuel Logistics
(Curriculum 121, 15 hours)
| PH3700 | Fundamentals of Energy | | 4 | 0 |
| OS3007 | Operations Research for Energy Systems Analysts | | 4 | 0 |
| OS3613 | Introduction to Energy Logistics in Warfare Operations | | 3 | 0 |
| OA3611 | Principles of Operational Logistics | | 4 | 0 |
Unmanned Systems Persistence
(Curriculum 117, 16 hours)
| OS3680 | Naval Tactical Analysis | | 4 | 0 |
| OA4602 | Joint Campaign Analysis | | 4 | 0 |
| IS3460 | Networked Autonomous and Unmanned Systems | | 4 | 0 |
| EN3010 | Introduction to Energy Systems for Robotics | | 4 | 0 |
Directed Energy
(Curriculum 119, 17 hours)
| PH1000 | The Nature and Structure of Physics | | 4 | 0 |
| EC3110 | Electrical Energy: Present and Emerging Technologies | | 3 | 2 |
| SE3122 | Naval Weapon Systems Technology I | | 3 | 0 |
| PH4858 | Directed Energy Weapons | | 4 | 1 |