Sustainable Energy Technology programme – in detail

First year

During the first year, much of the curriculum consists of lecture courses introducing key concepts, like renewable energy, flow and transport phenomena or ‘Smart Energy Products’ . Several of the courses also include a practical in which acquired knowledge is applied.

Students may also supplement their basic knowledge with electives in specialisation subjects such as energy from biomass, solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen or electrical power engineering.

Interdisciplinary co-operation is a major goal, especially in the first (group) project. During the second semester, students follow more advanced courses in their particular fields of interest and have opportunities to work on projects organised in close co-operation with industry. In these projects both the system approach and the typical engineering and social science approaches to scientific research are used. Students also work on individual research projects.

Second year

Specialisation courses

The focus during the second year is on research and design. Elective courses make it possible to acquire in-depth knowledge relevant to the graduation project.

Graduation project

Students complete their programme with a graduation project, working for a period equivalent to 32 full-time weeks within one of the research groups involved in Sustainable Energy Technology. Students may choose their final project from one of the six specialisations at any of the 3 TUs.

Examples of graduation projects include:

• Energy storage and conversion
• Solar cells with quantum dots and nanotubes
• Gas cleaning & upgrading unit related to fuel cell research
• Energy saving technologies in households and changing user practices
• Operation of semi-autonomous power grids
• Wind turbine design

Study guide

See the digital studyguide for an overview of course descriptions.