Minor Aerospace for Sustainable Earth

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Minor Aerospace for Sustainable Earth
codename Minor 5
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
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Educational Philosophy

• Sustainability is the main driver of the program
• The program offers both research and design
• The program has fixed parts and parts with
  freedom for the student
• The program teaches tools and gives the
  opportunity to apply them
• The program has a workload which is evenly spread
  over the semester
• The program has only three written exams but
  requires you to work on assignments in the
  January exam period

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Course program

• course credits
• electrical power engineering 3 (E)
• practical electrical power generation, storage
  and usage 1
• Satellite earth observation 3 (E)
• Introduction to wind energy 4
• course practical aircraft design 7
• systems eng. and technical management techn.
  3 (E)
• present interest in sustainable engineering
  3
• case study / mini project 6
• Total 30
• in cooperation with other minors
• E written examination

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Course program

• course schedule lecturer
• electrical power engineering 4/0/0/0 P.
  Bauer/J.A. Ferreira
• practical electr. power gen, stor. and
  usage Fac. Electrical Eng.
• satellite earth observation 0/4/0/0 P. Ditmar
• introduction to wind energy 2/2/0/0 W.A.A.M.
  Bierbooms/
• W.A. Timmer/
• G.J.W. van Bussel
• course practical aircraft design 6/4/0/0 Van
  Tooren/Melkert/
• Larocca/Van Buijtenen/
• Bos-Pavel
• systems eng. and technical man. techn. 0/4/0/0
  R. Curran/
• M.J.L.van Tooren
• present interest in sustainable
  engineering 2/2/0/0 W.J. Ockels/
• J.A. Melkert
• case study / mini project various staff
• Lecture hours per week 14/16/0/0

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Course program

• course exams
• electrical power engineering written (October)
• Satellite earth observation written (January)
• Introduction to wind energy --
• course practical aircraft design --
• systems eng. and technical man. techn. written
  (January)
• present interest in sustainable engineering --
• case study / mini project --

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