Scientifically Oriented Fundamentals of Wind Energy Systems

The certificate 'Scientifically Oriented Fundamentals of Wind Energy Systems' provides a strong fundamental knowledge, crucial to understanding economically and ecologically efficient wind energy transformation, and to designing new wind turbines or components of wind turbines with the state-of-the-art of wind engineering. Besides improving fundamental engineering knowledge, this certificate also serves as a basis for more technical or methodological certificates, or for studying the complete 'Online M.Sc. Wind Energy Systems' program.

Selection of five modules from six available modules:

The participants of the certificate program will learn the basic electrical and mechanical components of wind energy systems, their design requirements and realized constructions and designs. They will learn to apply mathematics at an advanced level, which enables engineers to understand the ordinary and partial differential equations describing the behavior of the electrical system, the structural components and the fluid flow of wind turbines. They will also be able to solve fundamental relations of electrics, electronics and mechanics of wind turbines.

The module components concerning mechanics will lead to an understanding of action forces, internal reactions and mathematical models describing the behavior of wind turbine structures and the air and water flow around wind power plants. In combination with basic competencies in programming languages and applying software products, the students will be well prepared to understand numerical methods and mechanical models used in engineering applications and in commercial simulation tools, and to overcome limitations of software packages for computational fluid and structural mechanics and electrical engineering. The certificate will qualify engineers of various disciplines, natural scientists and mathematicians to adapt their competencies to wind engineering.

€6,000 (30 credits)

All 30 credits of the certificate 'Scientifically Oriented Fundamentals of Wind Energy Systems' will be accepted for the complete master's study program Online M.Sc. Wind Energy Systems.

The certificate 'Scientifically Oriented Fundamentals of Wind Energy Systems' provides a sound basic knowledge that is crucial for understanding an economically and ecologically efficient wind energy transformation. The certificate also provides participants with knowledge on the development of wind turbines and wind turbine components. In addition to imparting basic engineering knowledge, this certificate also forms the basis for further technical or methodological wes.online certificates or the "Online MSc Wind Energy Systems" course.

Selection of five modules from six available modules:

The certificate qualifies engineers from various disciplines, natural scientists and mathematicians to expand their skills specializing in wind energy technology.

The certificate participants learn the basic electrical and mechanical components of wind turbines, their design requirements and realized constructions and designs. Upon completion of the certificate, participants will be able to apply engineering mathematics at an advanced level. Specifically, this enables engineers to understand ordinary and partial differential equations that describe the behavior of the electrical system, structural components and flow of wind turbines. Students will also be able to understand the fundamental relationships between the electrical, electronic and mechanical systems of wind turbines.

The mechanical module components provide an understanding of action forces, internal reactions and mathematical models that describe the behavior of wind turbine structures and the flow of air and water around wind turbines. Combined with basic programming language skills and the use of software products, students will be able to understand numerical methods and mechanical models in engineering applications and in commercial simulation tools and overcome software limitations of fluid and structural mechanics and electrical engineering after obtaining the certificate.

6,000 € (30 ECTS credits)

All 30 credits of the certificate 'Scientifically Oriented Fundamentals of Wind Energy Systems' are recognized for the Master's degree program Online M.Sc. Wind Energy Systems.