Energy, Sustainability & the Environment - Teaching
Power generation and environmental engineering are central to the advancement of a sustainable future in developed and emerging economies. Energy engineering and sustainability are broad interdisciplinary subjects.
Third Year
This Engineering Area offers the opportunity to draw together modules across electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, underpinned by fluid mechanics thermodynamics. For example, 3A1 introduces incompressible fluid flows, and 3A5 focuses on power generation in gas and steam turbine plants, and fuel cells. But in parallel, thermofluids may be studied in other application areas, such as buildings and infrastructure (3D5 and 3D8, complemented by Part IIB modules such as Architectural Engineering and Sustainable Development). Across Part IIA and IIB, this Engineering Area enables students to study the whole power industry and associated technologies (fossil fuel, nuclear and renewable energy).
Students intending to qualify in this Engineering Area must include at least six of the modules listed below in their third year.
| Number and title of module | ||
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| 3A1 | Fluid mechanics I (double module) | |
| 3A3 | Fluid mechanics II (double module) | |
| 3A5 | Thermodynamics and power generation | |
| 3A6 | Heat and mass transfer | |
| 3B4 | Electric drive systems | |
| 3D5 |
Water engineering | |
| 3D8 | Building physics and environmental geotechnics | |
| 4M16 |
Nuclear power engineering | |
Area activity: Wind tunnel tests or Performance and characteristics of IC engines or Design and performance of a portable motor-generator set
Fourth Year
Students intending to qualify in this Engineering Area in the fourth year must include at least four of the modules listed below:
| Number and title of module | ||
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| 4A2 | Computational fluid dynamics | |
| 4A3 | Turbomachinery I | |
| 4A8 | Environmental fluid mechanics | |
| 4A9 | Molecular thermodynamics | |
| 4A11 | Turbomachinery II | |
| 4A13 | Combustion and IC engines | |
| 4B14 | Solar electronic power: generation and distribution | |
| 4B19 | Renewable electrical power | |
| 4D11 | Building physics | |
| 4D13 | Architectural engineering | |
| 4D14 | Contaminated land and waste containment | |
| 4D15 | Sustainable water engineering | |
| 4I7 | Electricity and environment | |
| 4M14 | Sustainable development | |
| 4M15 | Sustainable energy | |
| 4M16 | Nuclear power engineering | |