URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=HA250&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
To students of this Track we offer the opportunity to contribute in groups to the solutions needed to realize the energy transition as part of the Energy Transition Lab. The Energy Transition Lab is an overarching laboratory of the SAE in which education, (student) projects and external parties are united with the objective to interact, interrelate, innovate and contribute in a more productive and sustainable way to the Energy Transition.Contributing to the Energy Transition is highly complex as many different factors interact, for example innovative technological solutions, (restrictive) laws and regulations, financial limitations/contributions, environmental consequences) and actors (researchers, entrepreneurs, government/municipalities, university, civil society organizations etc.). This often makes it complicated to simply implement technological innovations.
Your new team of 5-7 students will be assigned an energy related challenge in which innovation should lead to an interesting and potentially successful solution. Your client can be a company, municipality, the university, an industry, cooperation or other structure. As a group you can also propose another topic based on convincing arguments.
You are expected to learn how to analyze the presented case well and develop a critical view. You will need to obtain sufficient background to discuss and research your topic and arrive at innovative solutions. We will also challenge you to take your case as an example and place it in the broader context of the region, our country, Europe and the global economy. Also with this wider perspective you should to be able to develop your opinion, discuss, report and present your findings and results. Attention needs to be paid to valorization of the idea/innovation, to forecast its economic and societal impact.
The output of your group can be a design, as well a business oriented plan, prototype or concept. Your focus mostly depends on the preference of your client and your group in coordination with the SAE