Renewable Energy

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in engineering or science (e.g. physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering).

Minimum standard period of study: 6 semesters.
Required ECTS credits: 180.

It is expected factual competences on a basic college-level especially in the following subjects:

1. Mathematics: complex numbers, vector/vector calculating, basic statistic knowledge, integral and differential calculus, differential equation/differential operators, fluently work with prefactors and (physical) units, correctly build graphs out of value tables.
2. Thermodynamics: first and second law of thermodynamics, thermodynamic balance, work and heat, thermodynamic machines, mechanisms of heat transfer.
3. Mechanics of Fluids and gas: movement conditions (laminar, turbulent), buoyancy and friction, pressure, kinetic energy, viscosity, flowline, flow at boundary layers.
4. Solid-state physics: atom models, crystal structures and lattice characteristics, physical characteristics of all-solids (electrical and heat conductivity, shear forces), basic ideas of a semiconductor.
5. Electricity: Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, electrical and magnetical fields, inductance and mutual inductance, complex resistance.
6. Radiation: radiation laws (Planck, Wien, Stefan-Boltzmann), black body.
7. Atom models: types of chemical bonds, chemical reactions, Stoichiometry, law of mass action, displacement series of metals.
8. Biology: principals of photosynthesis, basic structure of important organic substances: sugar, proteins, fat, basic principals of the aerobic, and anaerobic decomposition of organic material.
9. Chemistry: basic knowledge of stoichiometry.
10. Measurement technique: SI units, measurement processes, and methods, confidence level of measuring, measurement faults, linear regression, error propagation.