312200 (v.1) Sustainable Energy Systems and Technologies 431

Area:	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):	Substantial completion: Final year Engineering or Science Bachelors or enrolment to Masters program.
Syllabus:	The challenges of energy demand and supply; major energy uses in contemporary national economies; the energy scenario and foreseeable changes in the prevailing energy scenario; energy costs and penalties; technologies for energy production, conversion, storage, delivery and recovery; sustainable energy sources, systems and their usage in various sectors of the economy; generation, storage and distribution of solar energy, wind energy, bio- fuels, geothermal power, wave- motion power, hydrogen energy; energy management and planning; energy conservation practices and technologies; case studies in energy system selection, energy management and conservation;
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External