Key Skills for Renewable Energy Applications - 2024 entry

This module will develop your core competencies and skills and introduce relevant tools which are used in renewable energy technology and project development, and then apply these to a renewable energy feasibility study addressing a real-world challenge. The module addresses a range of skills around computer based software tools, financial analysis, project management and sustainability, and general academic skills, which will be important throughout your MSc programme and in wider employment. These skills will then be consolidated through an in-depth renewable energy feasibility study.

 

This module is compulsory for MSc Renewable Energy Engineering students, and is designed to complement and support the technology-focused ENEM101 Renewable Energy Systems module.

This module aims to equip you with key skills which are fundamental to the Renewable Energy Engineering MSc programme and a renewable energy engineering career. These include the use of computational tools including geographic information systems (GIS) and Matlab programming. Beyond the computational skills, the module will develop your understanding of project finance analysis including calculation of key finance performance indicators as well as community or crowd funding and structures, and address the sustainability of projects through life-cycle analysis (LCA). It will also introduce project management techniques, and will develop your general academic skills including sourcing and synthesis of data and information, report writing and presentation skills.

 

The module will bring these elements together, and draw on your technology-specific knowledge from the ENEM101 Renewable Energy Systems module, in the project feasibility study.

This module will deliver and summatively assess the Engineering Council’s Accreditation of Higher Education Programme (AHEP-4) Learning Outcomes that are indicated in brackets in the ILO section below.

1. Show competence in the use of key software packages with a specific focus on renewable energy technologies;
2. Apply fundamental knowledge of renewable energy systems to address a clean energy challenge (M2-FL); 

3. Understand and apply principles of EDI in a team working environment (M13-FL);
4. Apply a range of project management skills including an analysis of risk to successfully plan and execute a multi-disciplinary project (M9-FL, M15-FL);

5. Present research outcomes effectively  (M17-FL);
6. Work effectively as part of a team and reflect on and evaluate your own and others’ performance (M16-FL).

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, an example of an overall structure is as follows:

 

Deferral – if you have been deferred for any assessment you will be expected to submit the relevant assessment. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of deferral will not be capped and will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment.

 

Referral – if you have failed the module overall (i.e. a final overall module mark of less than 50%) you will be expected to submit the relevant assessment. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of referral will be capped at 50%.