MSc Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Bradford, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 24,180 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international | home: GBP 9,462
Introduction
The MSc Renewable and Sustainable Energy programme aims to train future engineers to lead the global energy transformation, by addressing critical challenges relating to climate change, clean growth, and sustainability.
"The world is set to invest a record $1.8T in clean energy in 2023. This needs to climb to around $4.5T-a-year by the early 2030s to be in line with our net zero pathway" (IEA-2023).
In the World Energy Transition Outlook, the phasing out of fossil fuels will be accelerated. In 2050, renewable energy will dominate the world's electricity generation supply. To achieve global energy transformation and meet the Paris Agreement, significant job growth is projected, with 42 million renewable energy jobs expected in the sector by 2050.
If you're a recent graduate from an engineering-related discipline, this Master's course offers an opportunity to specialise and develop to become a future leader in this fast-growing sector.
The programme will focus on:
- Providing you with knowledge, advanced methods and tools to address technical challenges in renewable and sustainable energy
- Developing your professional skills to solve real-world problems relating to renewable and sustainable energy technologies
Overarching themes of the programme include:
- Innovation
- Design and manufacturing
- Operations and maintenance
- Modelling and optimisation
- Materials science
- Energy Economics
- Energy industry big data
The course is delivered in our Faculty of Engineering and Digital Technologies by an interdisciplinary team, including external industry partners. The content is research-engaged, with academic staff providing research expertise in sustainable energy-related areas.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Every year we award numerous non-repayable scholarships to UK, EU and international students on the basis of academic excellence, personal circumstances or economic hardship.
Curriculum
What you will study
The curriculum is designed with a total of 180 credits.
You will study a total of 60 credits each in Semesters 1 and 2, plus 60 credits for the MSc Project module across the whole year. The curriculum may change, subject to the University's programme approval, monitoring and review procedures.
The programme will provide flexibility with a balanced approach and optional modules in both semesters and intakes.
You will take two core modules plus one optional module per September/January semester.
First-year
Core
- Modelling and Optimisation
- Advanced Sustainable Energy
- Wind and Solar Energy Systems
- Low-carbon Industry Energy and Materials
- MSc Project
Option
- Statistical Applications of Industrial Big Data
- Sustainability in the Built Environment
- Sustainability and Innovation for Engineers
- Industrial Big Data Analysis and Mining
Learning and Assessment
The teaching and learning methods have been selected to engage you in developing your knowledge and understanding of fundamentals in the area of Renewable and Sustainable Energy through formal learning opportunities including
- Lectures and tutorials
- Experiential learning through practical classes and lab sessions
- Industrial site visits
- Informal and social learning through teamwork in projects and competitions
In this programme, assessments aim to solve real-life energy and sustainability challenges, the tasks will be interactive and realistic, to allow you to apply your used knowledge to current problems the field faces. You will undertake a variety of assessments to evaluate your knowledge, and practical and interpersonal skills development throughout the course.
All the modules will have some formative assessment, and this may be in various forms including discussions or questioning from the supervisor, self-paced tutorials, online quizzes, group activities, etc. These formative activities are crucial if you are to make the best use of your learning experience and they are designed to prepare you for summative assessment. Summative assessment is how we grade the work on a module such as exams, individual and group coursework, and presentations. The details of this assessment will be available from the beginning of the module so that you understand how the grade will be determined.
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Career Opportunities
Career Prospects
The ARENA workforce study indicates that the job market in renewable energy will increase fourfold to 42 million jobs worldwide from 2020 to 2050. The MSc Renewable and Sustainable Energy focuses on developing both the technical and interpersonal skills of students to ensure their success in the energy sector.
Graduates from the MSc programme in Renewable and Sustainable Energy can work in sustainable energy and related sectors such as engineers, energy system developers, researchers, and O&M management positions.
The University and academic staff have strong links with several companies in the industry including SSE, 1Energy, Ford Motor Company, Switch2, Cummins, etc. The context of the future energy sector is embedded in the programme curriculum and topics covered, e.g. advanced sustainable energy system design, operation and maintenance, future energy mix problems, energy industrial big data, sustainability and innovation.
Career Support
The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the Careers and Employability Services website.
Students are given opportunities for personal development through the Bradford Mentoring Scheme and The Bradford Employability Awards. Our students can also participate in several future-focused extracurricular activities such as employability workshops, career fairs, and focused sessions by the Career and Employability Services to support student's progression to the next stage in their future careers.