Renewable Energy Cranfield University

Overview

This Renewable Energy MSc will equip you with the advanced knowledge and skills to develop a successful career in the rapidly growing renewable energy sector. A choice of study routes enables you to specialise in developing the latest technical skills required to design renewable energy systems, or to focus on managing renewable engineering projects and systems. Ranked in the UK top 5 for mechanical engineering, Cranfield offers a unique, postgraduate-only environment, unique engineering-scale facilities for the development of efficient renewable energy technologies with low CO2 emissions and a teaching team with extensive experience of solving real world renewable energy challenges.

Your career

With the current global focus on developing low carbon energy production and renewable energy technologies, you can expect to be highly sought after by employers. Equipped with the expertise to analyse current and future energy needs and to design and implement appropriate solutions, a wide range of careers are open to you, as a professional scientist or engineer across the full breadth of industrial and public sector organisations involved in renewable energy.

For example, on completion of the course, our students have been employed by organisations such as E.ON, Vestas, Vattenfall, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, ABB, Scottish Renewables, EDF and Iberdrola.

In their new careers, Renewable Energy graduates at Cranfield University have worked on a diverse and exciting range of renewable energy projects, including:

• Design of new renewable energy solutions,
• Testing and certification of renewable energy technologies,
• Operation and maintenance of renewable energy technologies,
• Technical-environmental analysis of novel renewable energy solutions, such as floating wind turbines and wave energy converters.

Accreditation

The MSc of this course is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and The Energy Institute.