📖Program Curriculum
The course comprises taught modules, depending on the course option chosen. Modules for each option vary; please see individual descriptions for compulsory modules which must be undertaken. There is also an opportunity to choose from an extensive choice of optional modules to match specific interests.
Course delivery
Taught modules 50%, individual research project 50%
Individual project
You are required to submit a written thesis describing an individual research project carried out during the course. Many individual research projects have been carried out with industrial sponsorship, and have often resulted in publication in international journals and symposium papers. This thesis is examined orally in the presence of an external examiner.
Examples of individual student projects have included:
Techno-economic, Environmental and Risk Assessment Studies;
Centrifugal Compressors Simulations and Diagnostics for Oil and Gas Applications;
Advanced Power Generation Systems with Low Carbon Emissions;
Design of Turbines for Use in Oscillating Water Columns;
Design of a 1MW Industrial Gas Turbine;
Gas Path Analysis for Engine Diagnostics;
Procurement Criteria for Civil Aero-Engines;
Selection of Combined Heat and Power Plants;
Condition Monitoring Systems Instrumentation;
Repowering Steam Turbine Plants;
Combined Cycle Plant Technical and Economic Evaluation.
Some of our students now have the opportunity to participate in innovative research projects, including Enabling Cryogenic Hydrogen-based CO2-free air transport (Project ENABLEH2).
