NEW IN OUR FACULTY IN 2019! SUMMER SCHOOL ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS

FACULTY WORLDWIDE

One of the most prominent current global challenge is how to meet the world's energy demand in an economic way without causing further global warming.

At Group T Leuven Campus this challenge is partly tackled in the research field of “waste to energy”, where Prof. Jo Van Caneghem investigates how heat and electricity can be recovered from non-recyclable waste in the most efficient way (https://iiw.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/ chemarts/home). In addition, the CORE student team with their coach Stijn De Jonge (https://www.thinkcore.be/), is conducting multiple projects on sustainable energy production and technologies.

The intensive multicampus course on Sustainable Energy Production already provides insights in and solutions for the global energy challenge and has been running successfully in the past years.

Now prof. Jo Van Caneghem and Stijn De Jonge have joined forces to develop a summer school on Sustainable Energy Systems (SES). The new 2019 summer school starts from an international perspective on sustainable energy, which will allow for a larger context with new insights from different angles.

Stijn De Jonge and prof. Jo Van Caneghem

“The objective is to start from the different technologies for sustainable energy production that currently exist and to bring them together in a coherent system that is both economically feasible (adequate coverage of energy demand) and sustainable (ecologically justified)” explains Stijn De Jonge.

The international student group attending the SES summer school will receive an active learning course with focus on the implementation and integration of the different energy production technologies.

Prof. Van Caneghem adds: “Students will be taught via the ‘flipped classroom’ concept and work together on specific cases where an interdisciplinary approach is needed. The solutions they come up with will be assessed on their environmental impact and cost. The teamwork will result in peer-to-peer learning”.

The SES summer course is open to all international partners of the Faculty of Engineering Technology.

Hilde Lauwereys

More information: https://iiw.kuleuven.be/english/study@fet/summer-school