Full time
1 year
30-SEP-24
MSc - Master of Science
Sustainability
Taught
The increasing number of global humanitarian challenges urges us to rethink the role we play. In the Humanitarian Engieering (with Sustainability) MSc you will focus on renewable energy sustainable cities and infrastructures for emergencies.
Course Overview
Humanitarian Engineering is the use of science and engineering to invent create design develop or improve technologies that promote the wellbeing of communities facing grand humanitarian challenges. This degree explores the same broad themes as our main Humanitarian Engineering degree but with a specific focus on sustainability through tailored core and optional modules.
Teaching
Each module will run intensively over one week and will be taught by a variety of methods: seminar lecture field research flipped classroom journal club etc.
Assessment
The core modules are assessed in a variety of ways including essay poster presentation artefact student-devised assessment.
Skills from this degree
Careers
A degree in Humanitarian Engineering will leave you well-placed to work with governments (e.g. ministries of finance rural development and education) multilateral development institutions (e.g. World Bank and United Nations) NGOs and the private sector (e.g. professional services and investment banking). You may also decide to pursue PhD studies.
Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:
Please refer university website for the fee details
Please refer university website for the fee details
Minimum requirements 2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent) ideally in Engineering Science Social Sciences Natural Sciences Humanities Business or Medical Sciences although we will consider graduates of all disciplines