Elective major - Energy and Environment

This option of the ESEO engineering cycle trains engineers for careers in energy and the environment, capable of understanding and tackling energy issues. As managers and planners, Energy and Environment engineers manage, control and optimise energy consumption and make digital technologies accessible to the energy sector.

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Campus : Angers
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy

Objective

In addition to ESEO's general engineering training, this option, offered in semesters 8 and 9, aims to train engineers in electronics and IT for the energy and environment sectors.

Skills acquired

Theoretical tools
- Electrical modelling
- Thermal
- Control/Command
- Data analysis
- Electrical Machines
- Power electronics
Software
- Matlab/Simulink
- LabVIEW
- dSPACE
- Control Desk
Applications
- Nuclear energy
- Renewable energies (solar – wind)
- Energy storage
- Energy transition and challenges
- Energy management, energy monitoring
- Energy trading
- Energy standards
- Industrial directives.
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Teaching units

Semester 8

Automation & data: 5 ECTS – 60.5h
- State-space modelling, Digital control, Artificial intelligence, Data mining
Acquisition Systems: 5 ECTS – 56h
- MPPT control for PV systems, acquisition chain, rapid prototyping
Energy transition & challenges: 5 ECTS – 65.5h
- Energy and societal transition, Fossil fuels and carbon accounting, Climate change and energy challenges
Energy conversion: 5 ECTS – 60h
- Asynchronous motors, EMC, Design of low-tech aerothermal heating, Nuclear energy awareness
Electrical systems: 5 ECTS – 46h
- Electrical modelling, Energy management project, Infrastructure-virtualisation

Semester 9

Final year project (PFE): 12 ECTS – 140h
Electrical Engineering: Synthesis project: 3 ECTS – 45h
- Energy conversion – Synchronous machines
Clean Energy: 4 ECTS – 56h
- Solar -Wind – Hydrogen- Introduction to the financial market
Measurement, optimisation and control: 4 ECTS – 56h
- Measurement and verification – Optimisation and identification of systems – Control and observation
Energy Management: 4 ECTS – 56h
- Industrial directives – The challenges of energy performance in companies – ISO 50001 standard – Company and society
Energy Autonomy: 2 ECTS – 28h
- Batteries – Energy harvesting
Lectures: 1 ECTS – 11h
- Zetetics, Industrial efficiency