2014/15 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MSc Low Carbon Technologies No longer recruiting

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

1st, 2.1, MSc, MEng in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
This Masters degree is part of a 4 year Integrated PhD and Masters Programme and is not available as a stand alone MSc.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Engineering

Programme specification:

The integrated PhD & Masters programme aims to develop an interdisciplinary approach to the development of Low Carbon Technologies. The distinctiveness of the programme lies in its interdisciplinary nature, developing knowledge in low carbon technologies but also underpinned with an understanding of the whole energy system including climate change, social, economic, public, political and policy issues.

The MSc is integrated into a 4 year PhD programme via the 'Integrated PhD & MSc' route also monitored through the Graduate Board's Programmes of Study and Audit Group.

The Low Carbon Technologies programme is unique in the UK in that it incorporates an MSc within an integrated PhD & MSc programme. The MSc component equips graduates with advanced skills in a wide range of low carbon energy technologies in the context of the wider energy system and related issues, thereby enhancing their career prospects in industrial energy sectors. The MSc programme is designed to enable students with a range of science and engineering backgrounds to convert to specialisation in low carbon energy technologies through an appropriate combination of compulsory and optional modules.

The taught modules provide a range of compulsory and optional advanced modules in low carbon technologies, including 'Sustainable Energy Processes', 'Climate Change Control Technology', 'Advanced Energy Systems' delivered by SPEME specialists. The wider energy systems and climate change issues are provided through advanced modules in 'Climate Change Mitigation', 'Sustainability Assessment: Tools and Techniques', 'Business, Environment & Sustainability' delivered by a SOEE specialist.

Where students wish to developed more advanced knowledge in a particular area of low carbon energy technologies, provision is made through optional modules in the area of for example, energy and transport modules such as 'Transport Data Collection & Analysis', 'Transport and the Environment' and 'Engine Emissions'. Other areas could include carbon capture and storage or climate change chemistry supplemented via other approved modules.

The choice of MSc modules in the second year will be influenced by the student's choice of PhD programme in the overall 'Integrated PhD & MSc' programme, under consultation with the Programme Director (Paul Williams for both the MSc programme and Integrated PhD & MSc programme) and PhD supervisors.

At the end of the programme students should:
- Demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge and mastery of techniques relevant to the areas of low carbon technologies.
- Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of, and an ability to critically analyse, concepts, information and techniques at the forefront of low carbon technologies incorporating a wider understanding of the whole energy system including climate change, social, economic, public, political and policy issues.
- Exhibit mastery in the exercise of generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research based on individual and team working.
- Take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and develop professional relationships with others.
- Formulate ideas and hypotheses and to develop, implement and execute plans to evaluate these.
- Evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in low carbon technologies.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment, Learning Context]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment, Learning Context]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:

Last updated: 21/03/2014

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