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Master's in Energy Development

Overview

Delivers high-level professional specialization that allows graduates to generate regional and national energy development plans and perform efficiently in the specification of new energy generation alternatives for residential and industrial use, ensuring the maximum energy and cost efficiency of implemented systems.

Duration: The Master's program has a duration of 4 semesters.

Graduates of the Master’s in Energy Development program will be trained to:

  • Have a general vision of energy in its different forms from technical, economic, social, and environmental points of view.
  • Know the current energy framework, and in particular the situation of renewable energies and its implementation in the Chilean and world markets.
  • Clearly distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energies and fossil fuel energies and make decisions about their use in the regional and national reality.
  • Learn about the optimal use of renewable energies, both at micro and macro scales, regardless of whether they are connected to a public energy network or an autonomous system.
  • Design and develop projects, as well as energy efficiency programs, energy generating facilities in general, and renewable energy sources (wind and solar) in particular.
  • Use different forms of renewable energy for electrical and thermal production.
  • Analyze the viability of energy-related projects based on conventional and renewable energies, using economic, technological, social, and environmental criteria.
  • Carry out research and technological development projects using new non-traditional energy sources.

Photovoltaic Solar Energy and Energy Systems:
This research area comprises several topics; the first of which is related to Photovoltaic Solar Energy (PV), where applied research and technological development of the technical and economic characteristics of various types of PV technology in the market is carried out on site. Another topic is related to the characterization of solar resources and is dedicated to the study of solar resources’ characteristics, considering terrestrial measurement of solar radiation, its radiometric characteristics and characteristic solar spectrum. A third research topic is the impact of the penetration of renewable energies in electric systems, where the impact of electricity networks in front of the presence of renewable sources is analyzed. A fourth research topic is the development of energy policies. It studies policies and procedures required for the sustainable economic development of electric energy systems.

Solar Thermal Energy and Energy Storage:
This research area studies solar thermal systems, evaluating their behavior under local geographical and meteorological conditions; the insertion of thermal energy is also evaluated, thus displacing the consumption of fossil fuels in industrial processes that require heat. This line presents two research topics, one of them is Thermal Storage, fundamental for the 24/7 operation of solar thermal plants. This is achieved through the study of materials with the capacity to store heat for a prolonged time, molten salts mixtures, and phase-change materials. The other topic Energy Storage, which studies and develops high-efficiency energy storage systems that use lithium batteries, considers the electrochemical factors playing a part in their storage, and the development and study of new materials to raise lithium batteries’ charge density. At the same time, the performance of lithium-ion cell packages is also analyzed from the standpoint of their interaction with electrical systems.

Students must pass a total of 96 credits, distributed in 54 fundamental subject credits, 18 complementary subject credits, and 24 thesis credits, in addition to a dissertation.

Students accepted into the Program must pay the following annual fees for 2021.

Fees

Registration Fee: $165.000 CLP.
Annual program fee: $3.900.000 CLP.

Scholarships
External Scholarships
  • This is an accredited master’s program, therefore, all regular students, including new entrants, may apply for ANID scholarships meant for master’s studies. More information in: https://www.anid.cl/concursos/.
  • Foreign students may apply to AGCI scholarships in their home country. For more information, read: https://www.agci.cl/index.php/becas/becas-para-extranjeros
Internal Scholarships
  • Program Fee Release scholarships exempt their beneficiary from the obligation to pay their respective program’s tuition fees, either fully or partially. However, they must still pay the registration fee in full.
  • Academic Excellence scholarships are awarded to postgraduate students in accredited programs or programs in accreditation or reaccreditation processes (with a report sent to the accrediting entity), considering the beneficiary’s academic merits, and they consist in a reduction of the program’s total tuition fees along with a monthly allowance. However, they must still pay the registration fee.
  • Financial Aid to attend congresses, which consists in support for accredited postgraduate students (or those in the accreditation process), will be granted after an application process that is available twice a year (first semester of each year for congresses taking place within that year’s second semester, and second semester for those taking place in the following year’s first semester). This support will consist of a financial aid equivalent to a verifiable maximum of 15 UF for national congresses and 25 UF maximum for international congresses. For this purpose, that year’s January 2nd UF value will be used.
  • Productivity Allocation scholarships are intended to incentivize students taking postgraduate programs to publish their research in scientific journals. If the publication is in a journal indexed in Web of Science’s (WoS) Journal Citation Report (JCR), this will consist of 15 UF. If the publication is in the SCOPUS or Scielo systems, this will consist of 6 UF. For this purpose, that year’s January 2nd UF value will be used, and it will only be awarded once per publication.
  • Other scholarships, without excluding the aforementioned benefits, Research Centers or other units within the University may use their own resources to provide the University’s graduate students with other benefits.

* This program is currently undergoing a curricular redesign process

To possess a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Sciences, a Civil Engineer professional diploma, or an equivalent degree or diploma. People with a Bachelor of Science degree may apply, but they may be asked to enroll in a number of additional courses to complement their basic training.

Applicants must submit:

  • Application form.
  • Degree or diploma certificate.
  • Grades report.
  • Two letters of recommendation.
  • Curriculum vitae.

Students at the University of Antofagasta’s Faculty of Engineering that meet the aforementioned requirements must only submit their application form and Curriculum Vitae.

The Master’s in Energy Development program’s applicant selection process operates under the following table’s principles: Applicant Selection Table

Application dates
From December 01, 2019, to March 31, 2020.

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