Master Program Digitalized Energy Systems
Oldenburg, Germany
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for international students / 15 July for German students
* Semester contribution EUR 404.01
Introduction
To mitigate climate change and thus as a matter of urgency, the energy transition represents one of the greatest technological and societal challenges of our time. The main challenge for a reliable, economically and ecologically feasible energy supply lies in the efficient, secure, and reliable digitalization of a technical system that integrates a huge number of fluctuating energy generation, consumers, storage facilities, and grid components that are difficult to forecast into a technically stable and financially viable overall system. In addition, the energy system is a critical infrastructure – the lifeline of modern societies. The failure or impairment of such a system would result in long-lasting supply bottlenecks, significant disruptions to public safety, or other dramatic effects.
This degree program enables graduates to conduct research at research institutions or universities on the still missing elements of a successful digitalization of the energy domain and thus on the implementation of the energy transition or to occupy diverse positions in the energy industry due to the high practical relevance of the study content.
The Master's program DES offers a focused scientific study program based on a completed Bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related subject. The study program offers an interdisciplinary approach to the development and analysis of the system intelligence required for energy supply in the future energy grid.
In addition to a clear understanding of the fundamentals, principles, and methods of computer science in its applications to energy systems, graduates of this degree program will have a deeper insight into methods, problems, and findings from the latest research in energy informatics. They can assess methods for developing and analyzing the required system intelligence, and select and apply them appropriately to solve problems. They have in-depth knowledge of algorithms for adaptive control as well as for control and continuous dynamic optimization of the complex and very extensive (European) power supply system. To this end, the students possess, in particular, competencies for complexity control through decomposition and abstraction, for the identification of and focus on generalizable principles and the search for decoupling points for the simplified control of the complex overall system.
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Curriculum
The degree program consists of a compulsory part, which teaches core competencies in the field of designing and engineering cyber-physical energy systems. These competencies reflect the diversity of energy informatics systems and their fields of application and, together with various thematic specialization options, allow for a meaningful deepening and specialization with respect to individual interests. Different domain-specific application perspectives are taught independently so that a broad application knowledge that goes beyond the specific energy system class is acquired. Societal and socio-technical issues are also represented as a cross-sectional topic.
The degree program is divided into the following areas:
- "Fundamental Competences" with a scope of 54 CP, which teaches basic competencies from the areas of computer science, automation, and electrical engineering. This area is subdivided into "Automation and Electrical Engineering" and "Computer Science and Energy Informatics" to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the degree program, which maps the aspects that are required to develop and analyze necessary system intelligence in the energy system. The courses from both areas are therefore also strongly interlinked in terms of content to bring together practical skills from computer science, electrical engineering, and an engineering approach in designing cyber-physical energy systems right from the start.
- "Foundations of Digitalised Energy Systems" with a scope of 36 KP, which aims to impart competencies and knowledge in the future field of digitalized energy systems. This area is subdivided into "Digitalised Energy System Automation, Control and Optimisation" and "Digitalised Energy System Design and Assessment" to take into account the different technical system classes with their respective specific design and analysis methods. The third subsection "Innovation Topics and Smart Grids" reflects the different domain-specific application perspectives and offers insights into current developments and research topics.
- The Master's thesis module (30 CP).
Program Outcome
Competences
Graduates of the Master's degree program "Digitalised Energy Systems" possess the following competencies:
Professional competences
- name and identify the principles of informatics and transfer them to current developments in the energy industry,
- differentiate and contrast in more detail a sub-area of energy informatics in which they have specialised,
- recognize and assess the techniques and methods to be applied in their special field and their limitations,
- design solutions for complex and novel, possibly imprecisely defined or unusual tasks from the field of energy informatics and evaluate such designs according to the state of the art,
- identify, structure and solve problems also in new or emerging areas of their discipline,
- apply state of the art and innovative methods in investigating and solving problems, drawing on other disciplines where appropriate,
- relate knowledge from different disciplines to each other and apply these synergies in complex situations,
- develop complex energy information systems, processes and data models,
- recognise the limits of current knowledge and technology and contribute to the further scientific and technological development of energy informatics,
- discuss current developments in energy informatics and assess their relevance for specific tasks and the development of digitalized energy systems in general
Methodological skills
- recognize, formalize, and investigate problems appropriately using suitable formal methods,
- design and evaluate one or more approaches to a solution,
- evaluate tools, technologies, and methods and apply them in a differentiated manner,
- investigate problems on the basis of technical and scientific literature, write an article according to scientific aspects, and present their results in a scientific lecture,
- plan time schedules as well as material and personnel resources,
- apply project management techniques,
- creatively develop new and original approaches and methods,
- reflect on problems, also in new or emerging areas of their discipline, and apply computer science methods to investigate and solve them
Social skills
- integrate their skills into team processes,
- recognize the achievements of others,
- integrate criticism into their own actions,
- respect the decisions reached in the team,
- communicate convincingly orally and in writing with users and experts,
- identify subtasks and take responsibility for them
Personal skills
- take on leadership tasks in a team,
- critically follow further developments in informatics in general and in their special field of energy informatics,
- carry out innovative activities in their professional field successfully and on their own responsibility,
- recognize the limits of their competence and expand it in a targeted manner,
- reflect on their self-image and actions from a professional, methodological, social, and societal point of view,
- develop and reflect on their own theories on independently formulated hypotheses,
- work independently in their professional field