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Education and Careers

Courses in renewable energy

Academic members of the BWEA will be able to provide further information on the courses available through their institutions, in particular UMIST, CREST, the Open University and the University of Durham.

Renewables East is a joint partner in the POWER project (Pushing Offshore Wind Energy Regions) which has a significantly subsidised offshore training course (only £75 students and £150 all others) coming up. Click here for details, or click here for an application form.

Most universities offer courses in the areas of renewable energy and the environment, mainly as postgraduate studies but increasingly also at undergaduate level. You can visit the website of each university for postgraduate course information. The UCAS website offers a facility which lets you search by subject, university or geographical region for undergraduate courses.

A selection of some of the courses available is below:

  • The School of Engineering and Electronics (Institute of Energy Systems) - MSc
    http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/research/IES/msc/
  • De Montfort University (Leicester) - MSc
    Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD)
  • Loughborough University - MSc in Renewable Energy System Technology
    Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • University of Reading - MSc in Renewable Energy and the Environment
    Energy Group in the Department of Engineering
  • Salford University- MSc in Energy
    Department of Engineering
  • The School of Engineering and Electronics (Institute of Energy Systems) - MSc in Sustainable Energy
    http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/research/IES/msc/
  • The School of Engineering and Electronics (Institute of Energy Systems) - BEng/MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Renewable Energy
    http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/Prospective//mech/DegsAvail/mech_renew.shtml
  • University of Southampton - MSc in Renewable Energy
    Solar Energy Centre
  • Napier University - BEng (Hons.) Energy and Environmental Engineering
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Cranfield University - MSc in Energy
    Department of Applied Energy
  • Imperial College, Centre for Environmental Technology
  • MSc, University of Durham, School of Engineering
    www.dur.ac.uk/Engineering/nareg/

One of our member companies, Garrad Hassan, also provide short industry courses - www.garradhassan.com/training