An MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management postgraduate degree aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the scientific and technological principles and techniques relating to renewable energy and energy management. An MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management degree programme also seeks to provide the skills and expertise to enable the graduate to develop and apply appropriate techniques in building design. An MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management degree offers an opportunity to address a complex issue relating to the carbon economy and to contribute to the future well-being of society
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An MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management degree is aimed at graduate engineers who are seeking to broaden their understanding of efficient and effective renewable energy technologies and energy use in buildings. Renewable energy encompasses the generation of electricity from sources that are sustainable, such as the sun, the wind and water (waves, hydro and tidal). Biomass is a sub-set of solar power, the energy being derived from plants that have grown in sunlight. There are also renewable energy sources that will give us hot water, a vital requirement for healthy living. With the exponential depletion of existing fossil fuel reserves, concern about nuclear energy leading to weapons proliferation (alongside the disposal of waste), environmental pollution (CO2, particulates, acid rain) from the burning of fossil fuels, there is a need to switch to ‘cleaner’ more environmentally sustainable forms of energy. This requires a two-fold human behavioural shift: (a) reduce our demand by being more energy efficient in our use of energy, (b) creating a more flexible supply and demand system able to accommodate non-dispatchable renewable energy to meet the reduced demand.
On the MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management programme solar, wind, water and biomass power are all studied in depth, but not in isolation. It is important to understand the technical and economic limitations of their use therefore this course is taught in the broader policy context of energy management and the cleaner use of fossil fuels.
The MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management programme, which attracts students from many different educational and cultural backgrounds, enables those with an interest in engineering or science to specialise in these dynamic and growing fields of expertise. Although the focus of the course is on renewable energy and energy management, the content has proved highly beneficial to those involved in many aspects related to energy in general, and particularly those in management or a decision-making role regarding the implementation of such technologies.
The demand for well-educated energy engineers is increasing dramatically, with wide-ranging opportunities in the field of renewable energy and energy management generally. Graduates are employed in interesting and diverse careers in fields related to energy both in the UK and worldwide. Many are employed as design consultants, while others have embarked upon careers in local government as well as in the private sector.
MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management at the University of Ulster
The MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management programme is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and the Energy Institute as part of their Further Studies portfolio for Chartered Engineering status. BEng students can progress to become a Chartered Engineer with the combination of this degree with their appropriate undergraduate qualification.
The first year of the MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Management
programme concentrates on current energy consumption and scenarios, energy policy, management and energy consumption in buildings. It concludes with a look at novel green building techniques. The second year concentrates on the renewable energy technologies, while the final year is a dissertation worth 1/3rd of the credits of the programme and allows the student to investigate an aspect of the field in depth.
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