Electrical Power and Smart Grids The University of Exeter

Overview

Key Selling Points

• 7th for General Engineering in the Complete University Guide 2024

• £6.5m investment programme in our teaching labs, workshop spaces and equipment.

• Specialist facilities include microscopy suite, aerodynamics and fluids laboratories, additive manufacturing workshop and vibration testing rigs

• Combine your Masters with a year working in Industry

Within this Electrical Power and Smart Grids MSc course from The University of Exeter you'll:

• Benefit from specialist facilities and equipment available at the Centre for Smart Grid where you will be encouraged to attend lab sessions and to undertake your own project work and research
• Learn from academics who are experts in their fields whose teaching is inspired by the latest research
• Graduates of the Electrical Power and Smart Grids course at The University of Exeter will be ready to take leading roles in achieving Net-Zero targets with cutting-edge technologies and data analytics for Smart Grid

Career opportunities:

With electricity becoming the key energy vector in achieving society’s Net-Zero targets, new opportunities are on the rise in this field. Due to the integration of low carbon technologies and associated variabilities in energy supply and demand, recruiters are looking for workforce with additional knowledge and expertise in smart grid technologies, data analytics and renewables.

The MSc Electrical Power and Smart Grids prepares engineers for this demand from future power systems who will not only have knowledge on traditional power network but also latest trends and technologies to operate and maintain the future smart grid, application of data analytics techniques and addressing sustainability within the electrical power network.

Graduates will be able to progress to either a PhD degree or to various other roles across private and public sectors.