Thermal Engineering Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Overview

Thermal Engineering is offered at Polytechnic University of Catalonia. The aim is to produce scientific and technical experts with the knowledge and skills needed to analyse any engineering problem in the fields of thermal energy and fluid dynamics.

Professional opportunities

Although this master’s degree is research-oriented, it offers graduates a wide range of career options, equipping them to carry out, coordinate or manage basic and applied RDI tasks in the following sectors and areas, among others:

• RDI departments of companies that operate in the areas mentioned above.
• Universities, technology centres and research centres that work in the areas mentioned above.
• Companies that manufacture thermal systems and equipment for air conditioning, ventilation and cooling, heat exchangers and accumulators, low- and medium-temperature solar energy systems, boilers, turbines, etc.
• Companies producing thermofluid equipment for the aeronautical and aerospace sectors.
• Companies in the renewable energy sector: high-temperature solar concentrators, wind turbines and shovels, buoy structures, etc.
• Engineering firms with expertise in activities and projects in the thermal and fluid dynamics field.