Regenerative Energietechnik Bachelor Bachelor of Science an der Hochschule Nordhausen

Basics in Electrical Engineering

Basics in Thermal Engineering

Introduction in Renewable Energy Systems

Scientific Practice and Writing

German as a Foreign Language I

Basics of Mechanical Engineering

Project Management

Students learn the fundamentals of project management including project life cycle, initialization, planning, execution, closing and agile methods. The course covers project structuring, time management, resource planning, team development, risk management and quality management.

Lifecycle Assessment

Module teaches lifecycle assessment through workshops covering environmental issue recognition, material flow analysis, system boundary definition, and energy/substance/environment assessments using assessment tools and software.

Environmental and Sustainability Management

Course covers strategic instruments of environmental management, environmental management systems, sustainability accounting, material flow analysis, and ecological/social impact assessment approaches for operational environmental management and certification.

Bussystems in Energy and Sensor Networks

Module covers data science with Python including data cleansing, manipulation and analysis using tools like Anaconda, Jupyter, Numpy, Pandas, and introduction to machine learning for processing large datasets.

Data Science in Python

Course teaches efficient processing of large data packages using Python, covering machine learning with Scikit-Learn and neural networks with Keras/TensorFlow for regression, classification, and feature extraction on realistic datasets.

Bioenergy Systems I Solid Biomass

Module covers state-of-the-art technologies for thermal biomass conversion including combustion, gasification, torrefaction and pyrolysis, with focus on emissions abatement and economical aspects of thermal bioenergy conversion.

Fuel Cell Technology

Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer

German as a Foreign Language II

Power-to-X

Project Module RES

(ET) Renewable Raw Material

Module provides comprehensive overview of renewable raw materials including wood and annual plants, their occurrence, cultivation and harvest, industrial applications, limitations, and energetic utilization possibilities for energy generation.

Wind Power Plants

Course covers wind turbine fundamentals including classification, aerodynamics, Betz's theory, control systems, design, wind characteristics and resources, with practical training using aero-elastic design software.

Photovoltaic Systems

Module provides consolidated knowledge about photovoltaic system installation and dimensioning, semiconductor physics, solar cell technology, system technology from single cells to generators, design methodology and economics.

Scientific Project

Students complete a complex scientific project in renewable energy engineering over the entire semester in groups of 5-10, learning to structure tasks, define work packages and present results through final report, presentation and publication.

Solar Thermal Laboratory

Module covers solar thermal collectors and systems including collector types, system design, economics, and laboratory experiments using standardized test methods for testing collectors and system components.

(ET) Bioengineering

Computer Aided (Process) Engineering

Project Module RES

Study success and career progression

Master Thesis Module Renewable Energy Systems

Students develop an independent scientific work on a practice-relevant engineering problem and present results in an oral presentation. The module comprises master thesis and colloquium presentation/defence.