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The Master program ESBC: Energy for Solar Buildings and Cities, is a highly innovative, new degree program preparing to tackle present and future challenges of the energy transition. It is a part of Solar Academy Graduate School recently awarded to University of Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB).
The Master program ESBC is a two-year full-time Master’s degree, composed of 4 semesters representing a total of 120 ECTS (officially integrated in the European Bologna system of higher education).
→ Objectives
The training combines practice and theory centered on the fields of solar energy engineering, building physics and materials science, with an opening to computer science, architecture and urban planning, law, economics and sociology. It provides technical tools for system sizing and management, and develops an in-depth understanding of the energy transition, including its relationship with public policies, economic and industrial transformations, business models, legal concepts and tools specific to the renewable energy sector, in particular solar energy.
→ Advantages of training
Innovative multidisciplinary education offers common introduction to economics and law, focusing on environmental economics and energy law (important challenges in the energy transition), and to engineering sciences, focusing on solar energy (highly growing sector of renewable energy) and on energy efficiency in building sector (responsible for over 40% of world primary energy consumption)
Projects and workshops complement this unique teaching experience.
From the first year of the Master’s program, close links between students and laboratories will be developed through the organization of research projects each semester, starting with the analysis of the state of the art and a research project. An interdisciplinary project prepared jointly by the students of both courses is also planned and finally the master thesis (« Master thesis »). Students will be fully integrated into the life of the research laboratories.
→ Careers
The objective of the ESBC Master is to train future researcher and senior executives, including engineers in technical design offices. Companies in the energy and building sectors, consulting firms, government regulatory services and NGOs are interested in candidates with a dual set of skills, such as those they will be able to develop in the ESBC Master’s program.
→ Activity sectors
Real estate activities|Construction|Modelling and construction|Generation and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning|Specialized, scientific and technical activities|Engineering and civil engineering studies|Engineers and managers in building and public works|Engineers and managers in energy production and distribution, water|Consulting engineers in technical studies
→ International
Courses are taught in English, by international experts and highly recognized partners from national and international research institutions and industry as well as by academic staff of USMB.
Disciplinary and international mobility, as well as immersion in an international research environment, are an integral part of the curriculum, bringing added value to students in terms of training and research. Grants for international mobility, awards for best projects as well as scholarships awarded for excellent academic results are available.
→ Internship
20 weeks minimum. International experience integrated into the training: teaching by international experts, possibility of internship or training semester abroad.
→ Continuing study
Ph.D. in Economics, Management, for solar energy deployment and energy efficiency,PhD in Energy Law within the Solar Academy Grduate Program or at a French or foreign university.
→ Requirement
The ESBC program recruits students with a bachelor degree in Engineering, Physics, Sciences and Technologies or equivalent. A minimum of 180 ECTS credits is required as well as a sufficient knowledge of English language. General knowledge of engineering sciences and physics of transfers is desirable.