MSc Clean Energy Processes at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

The innovative Master’s degree program in Clean Energy Processes opens up exciting perspectives for future-oriented students. Deepen your knowledge in chemical engineering, process engineering and other relevant disciplines such as materials science and electrical engineering. Set your own focus on energy systems or energy technology.

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering  |  Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; English-taught; part-time option  |  Intake: Summer semester, Winter semester  |  Location: Erlangen, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

CEP is designed as a 4-semester Master’s degree program and is made up of different modules in the two specializations energy systems and energy technologies. The general structure includes specialization modules and laboratory courses as well as compulsory elective modules in the chosen specialization and elective modules. A seminar on “Sustainability and Environmental Ethics” as well as an internship and the Master’s thesis are mandatory parts of the program.

Career pathways

The paradigm shift in the way we produce and consume energy due to the climate crisis is reshaping the industrial landscape, beginning with the preferred sources of energy and their processing as well as the established manufacturing practices in the biotechnological and chemical industry. A society and industry based on renewable energy requires new processes, new process chains, and new apparatus.

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