This degree tackles some of the biggest challenges facing mankind today - affordable energy, climate change, global warming and pollution control. For students wanting to be at the forefront of new engineering and cost effective solutions that will help satisfy the need for renewable energy, this degree could be your next step. Industry-experienced lectures active in sustainability research.Taught by lecturers with 10 years of experience teaching this degree. Includes field visits to interesting renewable energy projects (Wind, Solar, Hydro, Biomass plants). Excellent facilities that include well-equipped computer-aided design laboratories, modern electronics laboratories, specialist manufacturing systems, simulation software, industry-standard instrumentation laboratories, and industry specification.Rapid Prototyping facility (fused deposition method).Subsonic wind tunnel laboratory and well-equipped thermo-fluid dynamics lab, including a fully operational Pelton wheel and Francis turbine.Small class sizes allow for strong tutorial and laboratory experiment support and advice.Dedicated maths support for students.There are opportunities for industrial visits to local companies, wind farms, biomass plants, hydro plants and the centre for alternative technology.You will have access to industry standard software packages such as Altium Designer, Multisim, HP VEE, MATLAB & Simulink, Abaqus, AutoCAD, Fluent, Pro Engineer, SolidWorks.