Program Overview

MSc Earth, Climate and Technology

The MSc Earth, Climate and Technology (EC&T) at TU Delft is a programme designed for students who aspire to be engineers that help move society toward a sustainable future. The programme focuses on the responsible utilisation of Earth's finite natural resources to provide the growing world population with clean energy and the critical raw materials necessary for solar panels, electronic devices, and windmills.

Programme Overview

• Degree: Master of Science in Earth, Climate and Technology
• Accredited: by NVAO
• Language: English
• Type: Full-time on campus
• Credits: 120 ECTS, 24 months
• Start: September
• Ranking: 14th for Engineering & Technology, QS WUR By Subject

What You Will Learn

The programme aims to equip students with the engineering skills necessary to help move society toward a sustainable future. Students will learn to:

• Develop the technical tools needed to understand, monitor, model, and predict physical processes in the earth & climate system
• Observe and model physical processes related to climate change effects, natural hazards, resource extraction, and subsurface storage
• Work in an international study environment, combining theory and field study

Master Disciplines

The programme has been divided into 4 disciplines:

1. Geo-Energy: With a rise in the worldwide standard of living and a growing world population, the use of the deep subsurface is becoming more intense. At the same time, society requires an accurate estimate of the risks and environmental impacts involved with subsurface engineering.
2. Geo-Resources: This discipline includes the environmental and societal aspects to enable the development of innovative management of geo-resources with the objective of (zero) waste extraction and mitigating associated adverse impacts.
3. Climate & Weather: Study physical phenomena and processes in the earth system varying from weather to climate time scales. You will use modelling and observational techniques to analyse and quantify these processes, and apply those techniques to monitor, understand and predict phenomena that have a strong impact on daily life (storms, rainfall and flooding, droughts and heat waves).
4. Earth Observation: Our Earth is changing due to the natural geophysical processes, climate change, land use, growing population and urbanisation. In this discipline, key questions are: how to improve our understanding of the underlying processes and how to make the right decisions for the future?

Student Experiences

• Discovering the world through a new lens: From rustling leaves in the trees to drifting sand in the dunes, the world around us is constantly in motion. To make it easier for researchers to study these movements, Thomas de Jong, MSc student in Earth, Climate and Technology, is trying to capture them using scanners.
• Volcanic rocks solving CO2 problems: What if we could capture CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it under the ground in the form of solid minerals? MSc student Elara Redondo Garcia didn’t think twice when she had to opportunity to go to Iceland, where they are researching CO2 mineral trapping.

About the Programme

The MSc Earth, Climate and Technology programme is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the earth & climate system and the technical tools needed to address the challenges facing our planet. The programme is divided into four disciplines, each with its own unique focus and areas of study. Students will have the opportunity to work in an international study environment, combining theory and field study, and will be equipped with the engineering skills necessary to help move society toward a sustainable future.