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King's Buildings Campus

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This one-year programme is designed to equip graduates and professionals with a broad and robust training on modern power engineering technologies, with a strong focus on renewable energy conversion and smart grids. It is suitable for recent graduates who wish to develop the specialist knowledge and skills relevant to this industry and is also suitable as advanced study in preparation for research work in an academic or industrial environment.

Topics covered within the individual courses of the programme, include (but are not limited to): Fundamental and emerging power engineering technologies; Advanced numerical methods in application to electrical power engineering problems; Modern power conversion components & systems; Integration of renewable energy in the power system; Distributed energy resources; Electrical engineering aspects of energy storage; Power, telecommunications and control aspects of smart grids; and Research and innovation management techniques.

Entry Requirements

A UK 2:1 degree, or international equivalent, in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering.

Applicants with different academic backgrounds may be considered but are expected to have passed at least two power engineering related courses with marks equivalent to UK 2:1 as a minimum.