Advanced Power Electronics Aalborg University

Overview

Advanced Power Electronics is for those who want to work in the intersection of advanced power electronics, regulation and artificial intelligence and want to influence the energy systems of the future. 

Job and career

Acquired competences

Graduates in Advanced Power Electronics have a wide range of job opportunities. You can work in planning, development, consulting and research in Danish and international industries or public institutions.

Problem-based learning and working in groups during your study programme will give you many useful skills that make you an attractive candidate on the job market. You will know how to approach a problem and solve it in collaboration with other people, and this is often how things are done in the "real world".

Career possibilities

With the Advanced Power Electronics course at Aalborg University, you will have a wide range of career possibilities, including at R&D departments in major companies working with control of power electronic converters and electrical machines. You can work at R&D, departments or in senior management positions in energy supply companies, such as wind power, machine manufacturing companies, or in process industries, electro-technical and consultancy companies, etc.

Graduates now have jobs at

• Vestas, working on wind energy for converter and generator design

• Danfoss and Grundfos, working on electrical drives

• ABB and Siemens, working on high power converters for compensation or active filters or for machine design

• KK Wind Solutions, working on control of converters