Program Overview

Program Overview

The Energy, Emissions and Environment major is an archived program. Please note the end date for this major.

Contacts

• Academic Chair: Jonathan Whale

Structure

The major consists of 24 credit points.

• Major: 24 credit points
  • Required Units: 3 credit points
    • PEN592: Energy in Society (3 cp)
  • Specified Electives: 21 credit points
    • Group 1 - Energy Studies: 9 credit points
      • PEN594: Energy Auditing and Management (3 cp)
      • PEN598: Carbon Management (3 cp)
      • PEN504: Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Life Cycle Assessment (3 cp)
      • PEN590: Energy Systems (3 cp)
      • PEN591: Energy Policy (3 cp)
      • PEN597: Climate Change Science and Policy (3 cp)
      • PEN593: Energy Economics (3 cp)
    • Group 2 - Environmental Science: 9 credit points
      • ENV557: Advanced Environmental Management (3 cp)
      • ENV558: Environmental Monitoring (3 cp)
      • ENV684: Modelling the Environment (3 cp)
      • ENV616: Environmental Policy for the 21st Century (3 cp)
      • ENV556: Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment (3 cp)
      • ENV303: GIS for Environmental Management and Planning (3 cp)
    • Group 3: 3 credit points
      • PEN594: Energy Auditing and Management (3 cp)
      • PEN598: Carbon Management (3 cp)
      • PEN504: Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Life Cycle Assessment (3 cp)
      • PEN590: Energy Systems (3 cp)
      • PEN591: Energy Policy (3 cp)
      • PEN597: Climate Change Science and Policy (3 cp)
      • PEN593: Energy Economics (3 cp)
      • ENV557: Advanced Environmental Management (3 cp)
      • ENV558: Environmental Monitoring (3 cp)
      • ENV684: Modelling the Environment (3 cp)
      • ENV616: Environmental Policy for the 21st Century (3 cp)
      • ENV556: Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment (3 cp)
      • ENV303: GIS for Environmental Management and Planning (3 cp)

Admission Requirements

• Enrolment Restrictions: All graduate courses are subject to restriction.
• Special Requirements: This course is available to external students anywhere in the world who wish to study off campus by using online facilities. Assistance is provided by tutors, using telephone, email, or the Internet.
• Entry Requirements (Onshore): Recognised Bachelor's degree (AQF Level 7) or higher, or equivalent training, or professional experience in a related area. Some of the units taken assume some prior knowledge, details of which are given in the description of each unit in the Handbook. The most common of these is the high school Physics prerequisite for units such as Energy in Society, Energy Management, and Energy Systems. Some students may therefore need to complete additional prerequisite units.
• English Language Requirements: Equivalent of an Academic IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0.

Learning Outcomes

1. Advanced knowledge in a growing professional area concerning the impact of climate change on economic sectors and ecosystems to provide depth in understanding of approaches that can assist to meet the challenges posed by climate change.
2. Advanced knowledge about holistic approaches to sustainable energy development, the role of renewable energy technologies, the assessment of the environmental impacts associated with energy systems, and the management of those impacts.
3. Technical skills to use downscaling climate modelling tools to predict climate change impacts on different economic sectors.
4. Technical skills in spatial data analysis using graphical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing for the purposes of environmental management and planning.
5. Cognitive skills to think critically and creatively in order to design options for mitigating or adapting to climate change.
6. Cognitive skills in collecting, analysing, interpreting, and reporting data from environmental monitoring programs and identifying and providing solutions to environmental concerns.
7. Communication skills to explain the predicted global and regional climate changes due to human-induced global warming and their predicted impacts to a variety of audiences and discuss how to develop more climate resilient, decarbonised communities.
8. Communication skills to explain environmental decision-making for the purpose of public engagement with relation to environmental assessment and management.
9. To identify and rank the potential climate change impacts and risks for a company and develop and implement an adaptation plan.
10. To report on the energy consumption and carbon emissions of a company in compliance with Federal legislation and to initiate, plan, implement, and evaluate an energy and carbon management program for a company.
11. To make high-level, independent judgements in developing energy and climate change policy for corporate or government entities.
12. To conduct a feasibility study for a company concerning the incorporation of renewable energy technologies and in particular design a hybrid solar photovoltaic and battery system in accordance with industry-accredited practice.

Program Details

• Version: 11
• Version Start Date: 01/07/2023
• End Date: 30/06/2024
• Owning College: College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
• Owning School: Engineering and Energy
• Enrolment Pattern(s): Part Time, Full Time
• Credit Points: 24