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Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy

Sustainable and Renewable Energy engineers play a vital role in developing and implementing energy systems and technologies like solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower that reduce reliance on fossil fuels and promote a more sustainable future. They contribute to mitigating climate change, enhancing energy security, protecting the environment, and reducing energy waste.

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2 Years

36 Credit Hours

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3,000 AED / 817 USD (per CH)

Overview

AURAK’s Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy program offers students a comprehensive education in renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower, as well as energy management, energy storage, and energy policy. Students will develop a deep understanding of sustainable and renewable energy principles and the ability to apply these principles to solve complex real-world problems. Through various opportunities, such as research projects, students can use their skills and gain real-world experience in the field.

Graduates of the Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy program can look forward to pursuing numerous career options in various industries, including government agencies, energy companies, consulting firms, research institutions, and non-profit organizations. They may also work in policy development, energy auditing, and environmental impact assessment.

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Program Mission

The mission of the Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy program at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) is to provide a high-quality education for United Arab Emirates students in the key aspects of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. It will enable the students to take responsible, creative, challenging, and stimulating posts in research and industry in this exciting field. The Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy program is designed to close the strategic gap between the technical aspects of renewable energy and the policy drivers for sustainable development. The program also addresses renewable energy systems' social, economic, and environmental issues. Through various opportunities, such as research projects, students can apply their skills and gain real-world experience in the field. After completing the requirements for the degree, students will be in an excellent position to start or continue a career in renewable and sustainable energy technologies. Students will be trained to design, model, manage and control complex projects and prepared to play leadership roles in industry and government.


Program Goals

The Program goals describe the expected accomplishments of graduates during their first few years after graduation. The program goals have been derived from and support the mission statement of the American University of Ras Al Khaimah. Upon successful completion of the Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy, a graduate should have the following:

  • Acquired skills and competency in using renewable energy solutions instead of fossil fuel energy sources.
  • Acquired a comprehensive understanding of renewable and sustainable energy systems.
  • Teamwork skills in multidisciplinary projects, identifying problems, and proposing solutions, including rigorous analysis and design of a process, component, or system.
  • Appreciation of the ethical and societal responsibilities entailed in the environmental engineering profession and the need for continuous education in the field and commitment to life-long learning.

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Enrollment and Graduation Data

NUMBER OF ENROLLED STUDENTS
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Fall 2022 (Census: September) 12
Spring 2022 (Census: February) 9
Fall 2021 (Census: September) 4

Sample Two Year Study Plan

Our graduate programs offer advanced knowledge and skills through specialized coursework, research projects, and experiential learning. Taught by world-class faculty with extensive research and professional experience, our programs equip students to make a difference in their careers and communities.

First Semester

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: MEPM 532
The fundamentals of project management including: overview and concepts of project management (principles, body of knowledge, strategies); planning successful projects (defining, specifying, delivery options, scheduling, budgeting); implementing (organizing the team, work assignments, team building, effective leadership); executing (performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management); and closeout (performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management).

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None

Forms of energy. Energy needs and available sources of energy. Conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy, including power, and heat engine cycles, internal and external combustion systems and turbines. Basic technical and economic criteria for the design of efficient energy conversion systems, including traditional as well as alternative power systems.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Review of renewable energy resources; solar energy and photovoltaic, wind energy, wave energy, biomass energy conversion, fuel cells and batteries. Hydroelectric power and geothermal energy. Modeling methodology including system conceptualization. Model construction and validation (computational accuracy). Model evaluation and calibration. Simulation of energy and environmental systems. Optimization techniques; Classical direct search-for-optimum methods, Golden Mean, Conjugate Gradients, Modified Newton Method. Methods for constrained optimization such as Lagrange Multipliers, Search methods, Linear and Dynamic Programming. Use of software packages.

Second Semester

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Comprehensive understanding of energy markets. Technological, cost, and environmental fundamentals of energy sources and environmental systems. Economic principles underlying the supply and demand for energy in a modern economy, through considerations of topics such as energy demand at the individual and economy-wide level, the supply of renewable and non-renewable energy resources, the rationale for energy policy and energy policy instruments. Advanced tools to analyze how energy and environmental policies affect the demand and supply of different types of energy.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None

Techniques and approaches adapted to improve the efficiency of energy generation, utilization, conversion, transport, storage and management. Energy audits. Energy conservation opportunities for efficiency improvements in different sectors: industrial, commercial, transportation and domestic. Economic evaluation of energy conservation opportunities using engineering economic formulas, simple pay-back analysis, and life-cycle cost models. Short- and long-term planning. Restructuring and Privatization. Models of electricity industry, contract issues, markets and transmission pricing. De-regulation of the energy market around the world. Electrical demand control and power factor correction. Load forecast and generation side management.

Pre-requisite(s): Department Approval; Co-requisite: None
Under the guidance of an engineering faculty member, the Directed Research Project provides the student with a meaningful research experience. It requires that the student conduct a research topic or issue of significance to the field of renewable and sustainable energy.

First Semester

Pre-requisite(s): Department Approval; Co-requisite: None
A research-based thesis course that offers students the opportunity to work on a comprehensive, individual project. Topic to be agreed in consultation with a supervisor. The project will be of suitable complexity for results to be published for an expert audience.

Second Semester

Pre-requisite(s): MSRE 590

Continuation of the Master Thesis I. A research-based thesis course that offers students the opportunity to work on a comprehensive, individual project. Topic to be agreed in consultation with a supervisor. The project will be of suitable complexity for results to be published for an expert audience. Thesis Research Course


Program Learning Outcomes

The outcomes of the Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy program have developed the Student Outcomes (SOs) that resulted from an extensive outreach effort and analysis. The outcomes are based on program educational objectives and are in line with level 9 descriptors of the QF Emirates. Students who complete this program will develop the following:

Program Accreditations

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Program Requirements

The requirements of the Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy are thirty six (36) credit hours as follows: eighteen (18) credit hours are compulsory, nine (9) are electives, and nine (9) are for the thesis.

a) Compulsory: (18) Credit hours include the following courses:

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: MEPM 532
The fundamentals of project management including: overview and concepts of project management (principles, body of knowledge, strategies); planning successful projects (defining, specifying, delivery options, scheduling, budgeting); implementing (organizing the team, work assignments, team building, effective leadership); executing (performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management); and closeout (performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management).

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None

Forms of energy. Energy needs and available sources of energy. Conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy, including power, and heat engine cycles, internal and external combustion systems and turbines. Basic technical and economic criteria for the design of efficient energy conversion systems, including traditional as well as alternative power systems.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Review of renewable energy resources; solar energy and photovoltaic, wind energy, wave energy, biomass energy conversion, fuel cells and batteries. Hydroelectric power and geothermal energy. Modeling methodology including system conceptualization. Model construction and validation (computational accuracy). Model evaluation and calibration. Simulation of energy and environmental systems. Optimization techniques; Classical direct search-for-optimum methods, Golden Mean, Conjugate Gradients, Modified Newton Method. Methods for constrained optimization such as Lagrange Multipliers, Search methods, Linear and Dynamic Programming. Use of software packages.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Comprehensive understanding of energy markets. Technological, cost, and environmental fundamentals of energy sources and environmental systems. Economic principles underlying the supply and demand for energy in a modern economy, through considerations of topics such as energy demand at the individual and economy-wide level, the supply of renewable and non-renewable energy resources, the rationale for energy policy and energy policy instruments. Advanced tools to analyze how energy and environmental policies affect the demand and supply of different types of energy.

Pre-requisite(s): Department Approval; Co-requisite: None
Under the guidance of an engineering faculty member, the Directed Research Project provides the student with a meaningful research experience. It requires that the student conduct a research topic or issue of significance to the field of renewable and sustainable energy.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None

Techniques and approaches adapted to improve the efficiency of energy generation, utilization, conversion, transport, storage and management. Energy audits. Energy conservation opportunities for efficiency improvements in different sectors: industrial, commercial, transportation and domestic. Economic evaluation of energy conservation opportunities using engineering economic formulas, simple pay-back analysis, and life-cycle cost models. Short- and long-term planning. Restructuring and Privatization. Models of electricity industry, contract issues, markets and transmission pricing. De-regulation of the energy market around the world. Electrical demand control and power factor correction. Load forecast and generation side management.

b) Electives: (9) Credit hours selected from the following list of courses

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Introduction to solar radiation and some important related concepts like blackbody, solar spectrum, irradiance, irradiation, air mass and peak sun hour. Semiconductor and P-N junctions. PV cells properties, design, interconnection and module fabrication. Modules and arrays, stand-alone PV schemes with battery energy storage and grid-connected PV schemes.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Basic characteristics of wind, site characterization, statistical methods of wind analysis, wind resources assessment, fundamental principles of wind energy utilization, aerodynamics, mechanical and electrical design aspects. Wind machine technologies and wind turbines performance analysis. Wind farm planning and design. Wind power integration into the power systems, and the environmental impact of wind power utilization.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Fundamentals and applications of biofuels and bioenergy produced from biomass including processes of production, availability and attribution of biofuel/bioenergy production. Types of biomass raw material and methods of selection. First, second and third generation of biofuels. Methods of biomass conversion to fuel including thermochemical conversion, biochemical conversion and catalytic conversion. Production of hydrogen, biodiesel and microbial fuel cells. Environmental impacts of biofuel production. Economics and life-cycle analysis of biofuel. Value-added processing of biofuel residues.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None

Basic science and technology of water desalination to ensure sustainable water supply. Water production via desalination within the water-energy-cost nexus, evaluation of renewable-energy-powered desalination processes, power-desalination cogeneration analysis, evaluation and applications of novel desalination systems, such as thermal desalination, membrane distillation and forward osmosis. Recent technological improvements for enhanced desalination processes and fouling issues in current technologies. Assessing economic feasibility and the environmental impact of new desalination processes.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Introduction to solar energy, solar radiation; review of the basics of thermodynamics and heat transfer, power plant technologies; types of CSP systems including CSP parabolic trough systems, CSP dish technology, CSP Fresnel technology and solar tower; heat storage systems; hybridization; secondary use of CSP systems; operation and maintenance of CSP systems; power quality control and grid integration; CSP plant project planning: economic, social and environmental considerations and site assessment.

Pre-requisite(s): None; Co-requisite: None
Green building initiatives, their origin, characteristics of a green building, certification of green buildings rating systems, criteria for rating. Policies and drivers that are leading to the more widespread uptake of green building technologies; green building codes, policies and planning from the past, present and future from around the globe. Integrated design: urban micro-climate design, passive and active architectural interventions.

C) Master Thesis: (9) Credit Hours

Pre-requisite(s): Department Approval; Co-requisite: None
A research-based thesis course that offers students the opportunity to work on a comprehensive, individual project. Topic to be agreed in consultation with a supervisor. The project will be of suitable complexity for results to be published for an expert audience.

Pre-requisite(s): MSRE 590

Continuation of the Master Thesis I. A research-based thesis course that offers students the opportunity to work on a comprehensive, individual project. Topic to be agreed in consultation with a supervisor. The project will be of suitable complexity for results to be published for an expert audience. Thesis Research Course

Admission Requirements

AURAK is dedicated to providing students with a high-quality education that prepares them for successful careers and fulfilling lives. To be considered for one of our programs, you'll need to meet specific criteria. Our admissions requirements are designed to ensure that each student has the skills, knowledge, and commitment required to thrive in our challenging and rewarding environment. Admission offer is only issued upon admission review and a master evaluation.

Meet our experienced Faculty Members

Our faculty members are a core strength of our program, with diverse backgrounds, impressive academic pedigrees, and a solid commitment to enriching your learning experience. All of our faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees from respected universities worldwide and bring a wealth of professional and research experience to the classroom.

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Prof. Ahmad Sakhrieh

Department Chair / Professor – Mechanical Engineering

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Dr. Muataz Al Hazza

Associate Professor – Industrial Engineering / Project Management

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Dr. Shadi Altawil

Assistant Professor – Construction Management

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Dr. Mohammed Alnahhal

Associate Professor – Industrial Engineering

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Dr. Khaled Hossin

Assistant Professor – Mechanical Engineering – Thermal Science

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Dr. Mohamad Kharseh

Assistant Professor - Renewable Energy (Mechanical)

Explore your Career Opportunities

Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy courses offer excellent career opportunities not only in Dubai and the other UAE emirates but also globally. Gain a competitive edge in the job market with AURAK’s Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy.

AURAK’s degree in Master of Science in Sustainable and Renewable Energy leads to exciting career opportunities such as:
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    Energy Efficiency Manager
  • Wind Energy Professional
    Wind Energy Professional
  • Solar Photovoltaic Expert
    Solar Photovoltaic Expert
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