Renewable Energy BSc

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

First term modules concentrate on developing your core engineering and mathematical skills and they address the diverse range of renewable energy sources, their extents and exploitation methods. In the second term you’ll study the physical and engineering sciences governing both natural processes and power conversion technology.

Second year modules as well as training in the physical sciences and technology, introduce elements of management and finance. In the summer vacation you may carry out a minimum six week industrial placement.

Students studying BSc Renewable Energy who can demonstrate a high level of academic performance may be eligible to transfer onto MEng Renewable Energy. This will typically require achievement of a minimum 60 per cent mark at the end of the second year of study.

Third year modules are designed to build on the previous two years to enable study of specialist areas in order to gain deep knowledge, understanding and ability. You’ll choose from a range of optional modules which have been arranged so that you can select studies of a more technical nature or from a broader management track, or you can mix-and-match according to your preferences. For technically orientated modules a theme of resource assessment, power conversion design, performance monitoring and economic appraisal recurs. The remaining modules consider the more generic issues that span all the technologies or enhance your knowledge of more policy related elements of the discipline.

Throughout the third year you will work on an individual research project in your area of interest, under the supervision of a member of academic staff. Through your selection of options, choice of dissertation topic and choice of vacation placement, you are in control of the content of over half of your third year programme.