mechanical engineering New specialization in the Master's program
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has recently started offering the English-language specialization "Sustainable Energy Systems and Circular Process Engineering".
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Ruhr University has recently started offering the English-language specialization "Sustainable Energy Systems and Circular Process Engineering" for the mechanical engineering Master's program. The new specialization is designed to prepare the next generation of engineers for one of the greatest challenges of our time: The design of a future energy system based on sustainability and the accompanying transformation of industry from a fossil-based mode of production to a CO2-neutral circular economy, which is closely linked to the design of the energy transition.
"The transformation processes facing industry and society can only be driven and implemented by appropriately trained people – and this is where we as a university want to start and make a contribution," says Dr. Philip Biessey, post-doc at the Chair of Responsible Process Engineering. Accordingly, the study content of the new specialization includes courses that deal, for example, with the design of circular processes, the design and control of carbon cycles, relevant energy technologies, and the analysis and evaluation of energy systems.
We are pleased to bring together students from Germany and abroad in the new specialization.
Philip Biessey
"Only through a joint consideration of future-oriented technologies and their embedding in the systemic context can the potential for contributing to the energy transition be tapped," says Dr. Julian Röder, head of the working group "Sustainability Assessment of Energy Systems" at the Chair of Energy Systems and Energy Economics.
In addition, the English-language specialization is intended to support the international profile of the study course by offering an attractive study option for prospective students from abroad — also, for example, as part of an Erasmus semester. "Implementing a circular economy and a sustainable energy economy is an international challenge, which is why we are pleased to bring together students from Germany and abroad in the new specialization", say Biessey and Röder, emphasizing that the new English-language specialization is also available to German-speaking students.