Study Renewable Energy Engineering

Renewable energy and sustainable technologies are part of most of UC's undergraduate engineering degrees. At Civil and Environmental Engineering, we offer the following courses, which you can choose as electives during your undergraduate studies:

• ENCN423 Sustainable Energy Technologies
• ENCN401 Engineering in Developing Communities
• ENGR621 Energy Policy and Society
• ENCN623 Energy Systems Modelling and Analysis
• ENTR614 Planning and Design of Sustainable Transport
• ENGR682 Energy Project
• ENAE605 Sustainable Building Design Practice
• ENAE610 Building Sustainability Assessment

You can also take courses from other engineering departments.

Overview

Help shape our future energy systems and policy by becoming a Master in Renewable Energy Engineering (MREE). This one-year programme is designed to be flexible to meet your needs.

Our students come from a wide range of engineering and science backgrounds and other areas like economics, energy, architecture, business and management, public policy, and international development. 

Our graduates get exciting jobs. For example, we have graduates working as policy advisors (e.g., Ministry for Foreign Affairs), transmission system operators (e.g., Transpower), solar system designers (e.g., Sunrun), energy analysts (e.g., Intelligent Energy Systems, Ember), or consultants.

The programme was recently relaunched as the Master of Renewable Energy Engineering (MREE, named in tribute to Marie Curie). This one-year taught master's offers a flexible study pathway, combining advanced coursework with the option of undertaking an energy project.

Our courses

You need 120 points to graduate, usually equivalent to eight postgraduate courses. Students take at least five energy-focused courses, with the remaining courses selected from a wide offering of postgraduate electives at UC. Energy-focused courses include:

• ENCN627  Renewable Energy Technologies or ENME605 Advanced Energy Systems Engineering
• ENGR621 Energy Policy and Society
• ENCN623 Energy Systems Modelling and Analysis
• ENEL667 Renewable Electricity System Design
• ENCH683 Advanced Energy Processing Technologies and Systems
• ENTR614 Planning and Design of Sustainable Transport
• ENGR682 Energy Project (this can be a research project at UC or a project at a company serving as entry to the job market)

Popular elective areas from Engineering include power systems, power-to-X, sustainability and data, management, and construction. Further courses may also be selected from related areas such as science, policy, psychology, economics, and others. Courses offered at UC can be searched  here. For more details, please see the programme regulations.

Scholarships

Many of our students get scholarships, e.g. Orion, Manaaki Scholarships, India High Achievers Scholarship or the Dean's Award. Further scholarships can be found here. Check if you are eligible.

Job opportunities

Postgraduate studies in renewable energy are a door opener. You could be looking at careers as an:

• Energy analyst
• Energy policy advisor
• Sustainable energy manager
• Solar or wind energy engineer
• Energy project director
  
• Sustainability professional
• Renewable energy technologist