Energy & Sustainability Management

The students have to carry out a project independently in small groups to the extent of 4 ECTS = 100h. The basis for this is a given objective. Planning, coordination, budgeting, control, communication and reporting as well as finding solutions are in the hands of the students. The role of the course director focuses on coaching the students. In addition to the project, basic principles of project management and application of supporting tools are part of this module: • Project planning (project organization, resource planning with time planning, as well as cost, financial and budget planning). • Project management (time management, cost control and accounting, team leadership, quality management for projects)

The students have to carry out a project independently in small groups to the extent of 4 ECTS = 100h. The basis for this is a given objective. Planning, coordination, budgeting, control, communication and reporting as well as finding solutions are in the hands of the students. The role of the course director focuses on coaching the students. In addition to the project, the following teaching and learning content is part of this module: • Examples and approaches to solutions from practice and research are presented in lectures by experts in the field and, where appropriate, excursions to companies and research institutions.

The module includes the preparation of a Bachelor thesis of 8 ECTS. Within the framework of the Bachelor thesis, regular meetings are held to discuss the current status and progress of the Bachelor thesis with the accompanying academic supervision. The following content is also taught: • Advancing the knowledge of scientific methods in relation to the independent Bachelor thesis • Visualization of scientific results such as posters, video, infographics In addition to the Bachelor thesis, the final board examination (final Bachelor examination)up to 2 ECTS forms part of this module. Students receive information on the final Bachelor examination and are supported in preparing for the examination.

Students have to complete an internship of 19 ECTS = 475h. This time can be credited for students who are working in a specific field. The following contents are taught during the internship: - Complementing and deepening the knowledge acquired in the course of study through practical activities and business law issues at a company. The professional internship ensures that the students find their way when entering professional life after graduation and gain confidence in the implementation of their acquired knowledge through experience already gained. In addition to the internship, the following learning contents are part of this module: • Reflection on own strengths and weaknesses • Possibilities of self-marketing • Implementation strategies for a personal work-life balance

• Kirchhoff's laws • Basic quantities of alternating current and three-phase current • Reactive, active and apparent power • Applications of semiconductors in metrology, digital technology and power electronics • Description of electrical machines, motors and generators by pointer diagrams • Asynchronous and synchronous machines • Properties and structures of control loops • Definition of current and voltage • Electric and magnetic field • Theory of electrical conduction in doped electrical semiconductors • Photoelectric effect • Practical experimental setups in the laboratory

• Global and national energy demand / energy mix • Energy conversion chain and energy balance • Historical development of primary and secondary energy sources and their extraction, storage and use • Definition and interpretation of basic terms used to describe renewable energy sources • Methods for determining the resource situation and problems of volatile renewable energy resources • legal aspects of the use of renewable resources including laws and regulations of waste and wastewater management • Processes of waste treatment and recycling as well as construction of a wastewater treatment plant with mechanical, biological and chemical-physical purification steps • Structure, mode of operation and characteristic values of energy generation plants: o thermal solar plants o heat pumps o energetic biomass utilization o energetic utilization of waste and utilization of biogas, landfill gas and hydrogen o photovoltaics o hydroelectric power plants o wind power plants o deep geothermal energy and geothermal power generation o solar thermal power generation o selected innovative renewable energy generation options currently under research • Structure, mode of operation and storage duration of energy storage and energy conversion systems o chemical (inorganic and organic) o thermal o mechanical (kinetic and potential) o electrical • Aspects of sustainability in terms of efficiency, environmental impact, and CO2 reduction of energy production facilities. Field trips to selected renewable energy generation facilities will take place as part of this module.

• Basic programming knowledge for data preparation • Analysis and presentation of information from data sets

Smart Grids - electricity networks: • Technical, economic and legal aspects of transmission and distribution of electrical energy (overhead line, cable) • Tasks of network operators and the function of network regulation (incentive regula-tion) • Basic principles of network planning, network maintenance and network operation • Effects of feed-in and consumption on network operation in the transmission and distribution network • Network access and network use • Current trends in electrical supply networks heating/cooling networks: • Technical, economic and legal aspects of the transmission and distribution of heat and cold (district and local heating/cooling networks, MicroGrids) • Basic principles of network planning, maintenance and operation including merit order • Current trends in heating and cooling networks Logistics of energy sources: • Technical, economic and legal aspects of logistics of primary and secondary energy sources • Basic principles of logistics planning • Tasks of logistics companies and energy suppliers • Current trends in logistics of energy sources

• Mobility behavior and user groups • Mobility-relevant emission types (greenhouse gases, air pollutants and noise) • Land requirements for mobility • Alternative drive technologies • Storage and filling station network • Opportunities and risks of automated and autonomous driving • Mobility as a service • Strategies for mobility avoidance • Public transport concepts for urban and rural areas • Legal and technical requirements for the use of regeneratively generated electricity in the mobility sector in companies and in residential buildings • Economic efficiency of mobility concepts • Current trends in interdisciplinary mobility research

Regional Energy Master Plan: • legal basics • participation of stakeholders and process of a regional energy master plan • methods for stock and potential analysis (consumption, infrastructure, resources) • methods for concept development and preparation of a catalogue of measures • organizational structures for implementation • analysis of implementation examples

• Investment decision as a process in the entrepreneurial environment • Static and dynamic procedures of investment calculation • Profitability ratios of the profitability calculation • Case studies of investments in the generation and distribution grid sector as well as in sales and customer projects • Energy and environmental protection services from the supplier and customer point of view • Contract design of different service models

• Overview and context analysis of the most important subareas in business admin-istration • Subject and fundamentals of business administration: o Operational functional areas o Business-related decision theory o Fundamentals of management and ethics o Fundamentals of Human Resources and organization o Marketing fundamentals • Fundamentals of business-related management: o Constitutive company decisions such as legal forms, location decisions, types of mergers and acquisitions and choice of business segment o Functional company decisions: Materials management, production management, marketing • Fundamentals of business value creation processes and functions (value creation architecture and structure) • Fundamentals of market-, process- and strategy-oriented management • Microeconomics and the behavior of managers and companies • Price and product policy of companies • Elementary principles of game theory • Company organization • Market forms and market entry • Decisions under uncertainty • Behavioral economics • Economy of digitization • External accounting: o Structure of the accounting system o Fundamentals of operational accounting: Tasks, sub-areas and basic concepts o Commercial accounting system: From inventory to opening balance sheet o Double-entry accounting system: Posting business cases to inventory and profit and loss accounts o Organization of bookkeeping (chart of accounts, sales tax, etc.) o Principle of period purity and accruals and deferrals • Internal accounting: o Objectives and basic concepts of cost and revenue accounting o Fundamentals of cost and revenue accounting: Tasks, components and subareas o Structure of cost accounting (cost elements, cost centers, cost objects) o Contribution margin accounting

• Calculation methods and indicators for life cycle analysis • Corporate Social and Sustainable Responsibility (CSR) reporting

• Unbundling of natural monopolies and free energy markets • European and national development of the electricity and gas industry • Energy pricing and influencing factors • Standardized exchange products and trading markets • Comparison of different approaches for energy services, balancing energy services and capacity services • Merit - Order • Trading cascade • Markets for renewable energy sources • Certificate trading • Clean Dark Spread, Clean Spark Spread

• Phase model to describe the spread of technical innovations • Design Thinking • Open Innovation • Innovation management and interlocking with the technology and market management of companies • Success factors for innovation management projects • Current examples of innovations

• Audits for static and dynamic quality management • Auditing of management systems (ISO 19011) • Energy & Sustainability Auditing process and monitoring (ISO 14001) • Occupational health and safety (ISO 45001) • Aspects of building physics and building and materials science as well as classification of the energy efficiency of building envelopes • Energy efficiency of technical building systems (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) as well as lighting and electricity consumption for appliances • Collection and analysis of energy data and measured values • Systematics of the energy performance certificate • Energy management (ISO 50001) • Introduction to process modelling • Tasks of an Energy & Sustainability Auditor • Analysis of examples of Energy & Sustainability Auditing