Sustainable Energy with Industrial Practice MSc
Stag Hill, United Kingdom
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
13 Dec 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 19,000 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas students | UK students: GBP 10,500
Introduction
Our Sustainable Energy with Industrial Practice MSc degree explores sustainable and renewable energy systems and their applications. It will equip you with a deep understanding of the social, economic, regulatory, and environmental aspects influencing sustainable energy practices. This course also enables you to undertake a postgraduate placement year.
Why Choose this Course?
Our cross-disciplinary MSc programme in Sustainable Energy with Industrial Practice provides broad-ranging training and the fundamentals for understanding sustainable and renewable energy systems and applications and the social, economic, regulatory and environmental factors that govern sustainable energy. It will give you the skills to become a specialist in this crucial and rapidly expanding industry.
Study this interdisciplinary course and you will learn the key concepts of sustainability and renewables with a range of theoretical and practical modules taught by world-leading academics who are experts in their fields and have access to a wide range of exceptional facilities and resources.
You'll also have the opportunity to undertake a postgraduate placement year. The Faculty has fantastic links with a range of industrial partners, including Fluor, ExxonMobil, the BAE System, Cres Power, and NPL.
What you will study
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the sector, enabling you to gain an excellent broad overview of energy sustainability and renewables whilst also giving you opportunities to specialise in particular aspects such as wind, solar, sustainable energy storage, and smart energy and AI applications.
You'll begin by exploring the core principles in sustainable/net-zero energy systems and applications.
Project and laboratory components will enable you to gain practical, technical and transferable skills. Leadership and change management elements will also be embedded throughout group project work.
You will actively engage in the research aspects of the programme as part of your dissertation projects. For this, you'll be integrated into one of our research teams, based on the choice of topic you're interested in within a range of energy-systems-related projects and closely supervised by one of our expert research staff. The research projects will be conducted across highly relevant and multidisciplinary themes within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, with some contributions from the other institutes, research centres, and faculties at Surrey.
Completing this programme will provide you with specialist skills and an enviable understanding of the sector, boosting your career and thus addressing the energy technology and skills gap.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Discover how we can support your undergraduate and postgraduate studies with a host of bursaries and scholarships directly from the University of Surrey and external providers.
Curriculum
Modules
Modules listed are indicative, reflecting the information available at the time of publication. Modules are subject to teaching availability, student demand and/or class size caps.
The University operates a credit framework for all taught programmes based on a 15-credit tariff.
Year 1
Full-time with placement - 2 years
- Economics and Policy of Sustainable Energy
- Employability
- Energy Geotechnics
- Environmental Aerodynamics and Wind Power
- Group Project
- Introduction to Renewable Energy Systems
- Nature-Based Solutions in Environmental Engineering
- Nuclear Energy and Applications
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Research Dissertation (Prise)
- Smart Energy Systems Design and Analysis
- Solar Energy Technology
- Sustainability and Infrastructure
- Sustainable Development Applications
- Sustainable Energy Storage and Distribution
- Wind Energy Technology
Year 2
Full-time with placement - 2 years
Professional Placement Year - Sustainable Energy Msc
Timetable
New students will receive their personalised timetable in Welcome Week. In later semesters, two weeks before the start of the semester.
Scheduled teaching can occur any day of the week (Monday – Friday), with part-time classes normally scheduled on one or two days. Wednesday afternoons tend to be for sports and cultural activities.
Program Outcome
Educational Aims of the Programme
- To prepare students to address complex energy challenges toward net-zero transition through interdisciplinary skills and practical management principles
- The programme will equip students with the knowledge and skills required to understand the current challenges in energy systems, identify the appropriate technological solutions to deploy sustainable energy systems, and appreciate the prioritisation of proposing viable, practical, and long-lasting solutions toward the energy sector
- Provide practice opportunities to enhance the learning process by year-long industrial placement where students will be able to put into practice their taught knowledge and develop industry-related skills.
Programme Learning Outcomes
- To understand the key concepts of renewable energy sources and the requirements of sustainable energy conversion devices applied in the ¿net-zero¿ transition and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- To recognise, describe, and suggest appropriate modern sustainable energy storage, distribution, and demand side flexibility technologies for developing a more resilient and energy-secured economy
- To develop skills for applying appropriate methods to analyse, develop, and assess smart systems operating based on renewable and sustainable energy sources
- To apply state-of-the-art knowledge to design and size various storage and conversion technologies for renewable energy sources
- To demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and ability to quantify the performance and efficiency of sustainable energy systems based on the socio-economic energy impacts, project financial performance, and marketing principles
- To strengthen a range of transferable skills that are relevant to the needs of existing and future professionals in knowledge-intensive industries, irrespective of their sector of operation
- To further develop the research and experimental skills into new areas, particularly in the aspect of literature review and skills acquisition
- To acquire an industrial perspective of technology development and to gain the practical skills required for successfully delivering professional projects in industrial workplaces
- To reflect on career goals and the employability skills needed to achieve those goals.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
We offer career information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.
Engineers and scientists are increasingly expected to have skills in energy systems and come up with sustainable solutions.
Graduates from this course will be highly sought after, with diverse opportunities for employment in many leading industries as well as in research.
As a graduate of this course, you'll be well prepared to help technology-intensive organisations make important decisions given vast amounts of information by adopting, combining, implementing and executing the right technologies.
Graduates of our Sustainable Energy Systems with Industrial Practice MSc can pursue careers in many diverse roles, such as:
- Sustainable energy engineering professionals – in design, management, and consultancy
- Renewable systems expert
- Research engineer
- Sustainable supply-chain adviser
- And many more.