Overview
Immerse yourself in the technology to improve energy efficiency, learn to use renewable resources and reduce the environmental and social impacts of conventional energy resources. As an RMIT graduate, you'll be employed in local and international industries. You'll work on sustainable energy projects at professional consulting and managing levels. Our graduates are also able to take on complex scientific tasks on sustainable energy-related projects in research institutes.
Devise innovative solutions to social and environmental problems around energy supply, distribution and consumption. You'll learn to manage the transition towards a more sustainable energy sector is a priority for governments, the private sector and the general community.
A final-year research project forms an essential part of this course. Through this self-selected project (from a range of available topics), you will draw on not only the advanced engineering skills you have built, but also coursework around ethical, economic and social responsibility.
Career
On completion, graduates will be able to:
- plan and effectively manage an independent project on sustainable energy topics at a professional engineering level;
- locate and critically review scientific and engineering literature and apply engineering practices and research methods to conduct sustainable energy projects and evaluate their results; and
- communicate findings effectively to a professional audience
Career outlook
Sustainable energy is a growth area. As a result, the demand for engineers and scientists with a postgraduate qualification in sustainable energy is growing rapidly.
Within their organisations, graduates take on lead roles in:
- developing and implementing plans to improve energy efficiency and productivity to cut fuel bills, and reduce greenhouse gas/pollution emissions to meet regulatory requirements
- researching, developing, demonstrating, commercializing, designing and evaluating innovative solar, wind and hydro, biomass, hydrogen and other sustainable energy supply, storage and utilization technologies
- devising innovative sustainable solutions to current problems associated with adverse economic, social and environmental problems linked to energy supply, distribution and consumption
- maintaining and optimizing the performance of installed sustainable energy technologies and systems
- managing consultative processes with social groups affected by energy-related projects and developments
Graduates have gone on to work at a range of organisations such as:
- Melbourne Water
- Canadian Solar Inc.
- Honeywell
- Exergy Australia Ptv Ltd
- AGL Energy
- Origin Energy
- Genesis Now
- Stantec
- Schneider Electric
- T & O Energy Consulting Ptv Ltd
- Acciona Energy
- DNV GL - Energy
- Vestas Australia Wind Technology Ptv Ltd
- Pacific Hydro
