FME3550 Sustainable Energy Transitions - Technology and Management Perspectives 7.5 credits

The course "Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives" is an interdisciplinary PhD course package that offers doctoral students a training in technology and innovation management, sustainable business and entrepreneurship, as well as policy processes related to sustainable energy transitions. The course deals with the challenges and opportunities that drive transformations of energy systems and energy-related industries. This includes discussing the relevance of global challenges like climate change and sustainable development and analysing how they contribute to transformations of energy systems and industries.

The course brings together well-respected lecturers from industrial economics and management, energy engineering and social science at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH and invited guest lecturers from other institutions.

After completing the course, the student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of energy systems today, integrated with energy storage and renewable energy.
2. Demonstrate the ability to assess sustainability of energy systems from both technology and management perspectives.
3. Demonstrate understanding of holistic appraisals of sustainable transitions of energy systems and energy-related industries.

PhD students with interest and documented fundamental knowledge in one or several aspects of sustainable energy transitions.

The course participants will be selected based on a motivation letter outlining their interest in the subject, previous knowledge and their merits (e.g. educational certificates).

The course aims for total 20 PhD students as participants.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• INL1 - Assignment, 2.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• SEM1 - Seminars, 5.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

SEM1/Seminars: Active participation and discussion in seminars ,10 seminars over 5 days and 0.5 ECTS/serminar 

INL1/Assignment: Compulsory paper writing-  4.000 words to be submitted until 4 weeks after the course has finished. The paper should focus on at least one area of the course that was discussed and incorporate at least one method that was presented at the course. The exact assignment task will be presented to the students at the start of the course.

The provided pre-reading must be read by the students prior to the course start. The students should be able to discuss the literature and the knowledge gained at the course seminars

Saman Nimali Gunasekara

Frauke Urban

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.