The Full-time two-year MPhil programme aims at fully integrating Renewable Energy generating technologies and environmental issues to meet the changing demands of the energy industry, particularly in Sierra Leone and the sub-region. The programme was designed in response to a recognized need from the energy industry for graduates who have a detailed knowledge, appreciation and fundamental understanding of the various sources of energy, their production, harnessing, conversion, and environmental concerns associated with the use of energy, and how energy can be well managed in industries and domestic settings to overcome environmental issues associated with the use of energy.
The programme is grounded in engineering and has a strong emphasis on energy systems where electricity is the final product. However, energy is also considered in the wider context of consumption patterns, efficiency, economics, policy and regulation. It provides students with a broad training in, and understanding of, energy systems in the context of the sustainability of energy supply.

Applicants should have an academic background in any discipline or profession related to energy technologies. Suitable academic backgrounds include mechanical engineering, applied physics, and areas of electrical engineering relevant to power generation/distribution, and energy use. Applicants must have a second-class or Division two undergraduate degree (BSc/BEng or equivalent), with no restrictions to gender, age or citizenship. It is imperative that applicants have a sound knowledge of basic engineering sciences, including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mathematics. Professional work experience in related fields will be considered an advantage. A sound knowledge of written and oral English is required from all applicants. Students from undergraduate background without a sound foundation of heat transfer and/or thermodynamics will be required to attend lectures in these subjects to give them the basic knowledge required for some of the courses.

Applications are also open for interested candidates who are interested in getting the Liechtenstein REED (Renewable Energy Enterprise Development) Scholarship. The deadline for Scholarship Application is 25th September 2024