Eti Winning Bid Consortium Member Launches New Renewables Degree

Nottingham University has just launched a new batchelor’s/ master’s degree in electrical engineering and renewable energy systems. It will start this year (2008).

The recent increase in the use of windfarms and other renewable energy sources has highlighted the challenges facing future electrical engineers – interfacing renewables sources to the electricity distribution system, maintaining stability in the presence of many small energy sources and guaranteeing an electrical supply in the presence of intermittent sources such as solar power.

It is with this in mind that Nottingham has decided to capitalise on what are seen as burgeoning opportunities.

Concentrating on electrical technology, according to the university, this degree course provides the knowledge and skills required for future power engineers.

Students will study electrical subjects covering power generation and distribution, electrical machines, power electronics and power conversion, and power quality, as well as renewable sources, alternative fuel systems and future energy infrastructures.

A major final-year project will focus on developing new technologies for renewable energy systems.

Specific course details can be found at http:// www.nottingham.ac.uk/eee/undergrad/degrees.php#hh6f

Nottingham University is a member of the consortium that secured the UK’s new Energy Technologies Institute, the others players being Birmingham and Loughborough. The last-named has become headquarters to the ETI.

This is likely to have significant bearing on the popularity and quality of this and other renewables degree programmes offered by Nottingham and the other two universities.

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