What industries and sectors employ graduates?
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Machine building and electrical engineering |
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Commercial and industrial enterprises for the design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance of plants that utilize renewable energies |
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Energy and water supply |
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Private and/or municipal companies involved in power generation, power transmission, power distribution, and trade in electricity; companies that generate, distribute, and trade in district heating; as well as companies that provide district cooling networks |
| Construction |
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Business enterprises involved in the construction of apartments, housing, offices, industrial developments, and power plants; large-scale installation companies; ventilation contractors; and providers of all-round services for technical building systems |
| Commerce |
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Wholesalers for the supply of plant components |
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Provision of business-specific services |
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Test laboratories; planning firms involved in construction engineering, building physics, building services, and electrical engineering; architectural firms which require technical drawings and building physics plans; general planners; quality assurance; and construction site supervision |
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Public administration |
| Chief officers of local government, magistrates, positions in provincial governments, ministries |
What jobs and functions do graduates perform?
- Administrative assistant, technical-scientific specialist
- Advisor in the role of project engineer, designer
- Lab technician, measurement and control engineer
- Process engineer, commissioning engineer, service technician
- Energy consultant
- Team leader
- Project manager
- Assistant to works manager
- Departmental assistant
- Production manager
- Executive assistant
What are some of their typical tasks and activities?
- Selecting components for renewable energy plants (solar collectors, photovoltaic arrays, solar cooling, etc.)
- Designing plants with an emphasis on renewable energies; integration into existing hot water, heating, or cooling systems
- Laying out entire plants for hot water, heating, and cooling
- Creating concepts for an energy-efficient and sustainable urban energy supply
- Integrating components for heat insulation, energy-efficient building services technologies, solar energy, etc. in pre-defined architectural design structures
- Analyzing existing buildings from an energy point of view and creating energy performance certificates in accordance with EU building guidelines
- Analyzing, simulating, and setting up energy distribution systems while taking into account decentralized generating facilities
- Comparing and checking the utilization of renewable energy technologies vis-à-vis conventional technologies from financial and environmental perspectives
- Advising in energy matters and implementing demand side management in energy systems
- Managing projects in order to realize urban construction projects
- Performing amortization calculations
- Implementing and maintaining quality management systems
- Designing, commissioning, operating, and maintaining combined heat and power plants while taking into account technical and financial criteria
- Compiling studies to assess conventional and/or renewable energy conversion plants from a technical and financial perspective
- Selecting the components for distribution stations for power, heating/cooling, and gas networks
- Integrating renewable energy sources into conventional networks
- Designing energy networks for the sustainable utilization of different energy sources
- Creating concepts for the rough planning of fuel-cell, hydro, wind, and geothermal plants from an energy perspective