Foundation Degree (FdEng) Energy and Power Technologies

Who is This Course For

This course is for:

• Technical and engineering staff currently working in the electrical power industry
• Engineers working in association with the electrical power
• Engineers interested in working in the electrical power industry

This Foundation Degree has been developed to improve the students technical , supervisory and managerial abilities. The Foundation degree will help students progress in their field and seek entry into an evolving electrical power industry. This course is likely to be fully funded by Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO).

To be a beneficiary the applicant must either live or work within the following regions for a private sector company:

• Anglesey
• Conwy
• Denbighshire
• Gwynedd
• Blaenau Gwent
• Bridgend
• Caerphilly
• Carmarthenshire
• Ceredigion
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Neath Port Talbot
• Pembrokeshire
• Rhondda Cynon Taf
• Swansea
• Torfaen

Synopsis

Approximately 2000 people are employed in the electricity industry in North Wales, with a 35% decrease in workforce over the last 20 years. The industry is now facing a new wave of development and possible a change in structure.

The Energy & Utility Skills Sector Skills Agreement 1 highlights that there is a, “high level of requirement”, for the employers to have Level 4/5 qualifications and that, “specialist technical provision is required, by the industry employers, for their workforce.”

In response to this demand for specific provision, Bangor University and Coleg Llandrillo Cymru have become partners to develop a new Foundation Degree aimed at ‘large scale’ electricity producing industry. The aim of this Foundation Degree is to develop the knowledge and skills of technical and engineering staff working in, in association with or interested in the electrical power industry, who wish to improve their technical, supervisory and managerial abilities, progress in their field and seek entry into an evolving electrical power industry. Through work based modules, taught modules, workshops, field trips, and site visits, students will develop underpinning theory and technical skills that will enable them to take up technical, supervisory or managerial roles in technical areas of the industry or within their current place of work.

The imminent decommissioning of the local power stations (Magnox North Wylfa) will open the doors for a variety of electrical power generated technologies for both centralised and decentralised infrastructures. This Foundation Degree will prepare students for the adoption of sustainable and low carbon technologies the will be developed in North Wales.

What Modules You Will Cover

Year 1 (Lvl. 4)

• Research Methods and Study Skills 1
• Electrical Engineering Principles
• Energy and Electrical Power
• Engineering Management Techniques
• Engineering Mathematics
• Engineering Science
• Learning in Action 1: Applied Skills and Competencies
• Learning in Action 2: Theory Meets Practice

Year 2 (Lvl. 5)

• Research Methods and Study Skills 1
• Impact of Low and Zero-carbon Technologies
• Power Conversion Technology
• Power Engineering Analytical Methods
• Thermo-fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
• Transmission, Distribution and Supply
• Learning in Action 3: Research in Action at Work
• Learning in Action 4: Personal Learning and Development

Location

Rhos-on-Sea Campus

Please contact us for more information.