The specialisation in Sustainable Computing (SusCo) is designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of how data, computing, and networking jointly contribute to sustainability challenges and solutions. Students gain insight into sustainability across all layers of modern digital systems, from hardware components such as storage and communication systems to software aspects including algorithms and applications. The programme emphasizes both the assessment and improvement of sustainability, enabling students to critically evaluate and optimize digital systems.
In addition, students are encouraged to develop in-depth expertise in at least two key domains, data/applications, computing, and networking, supported by advanced courses that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of sustainable computing.
Mandatory Computer Science courses
- 191612680 Computer Ethics (5 EC, Q2)
- 192199508 Research Topics (10 EC, ALL YEAR)
- 192199978 Final Project (30 EC, ALL YEAR)
Profiling space: Electives
Suggested electives for the Sustainable Computing specialisation:
- 201800126 Distributed Energy Management for Smart Grids
- 202001505 Energy Conversion: People, Planet, Prosperity
- 192130022 Design of Digital Systems
- 202100244 Pervasive Computing
- 201300042 Limits to Computing
- 192111332 Design of Software Architectures
- 192135310 Modelling and Analysis of Concurrent Systems
- 202000026 Secure Cloud Computing
- 202400588 Wireless Communication Systems
- 202100258 FAIR Data Engineering
- 201400177 Cloud Networking
- Topics in Data Science
- 201200044 Managing Big Data
- 202200159 Embedded Artificial Intelligence
- 201700080 Information Theory and Statistics
- 202300109 Quantitative Evaluation of Systems
- 201400225 Software Evolution
- 201700083 Security Services for the IoT
- 202200135 Dependable Computing Systems
- 202001505 Energy Conversion: People, Planet Prosperity
Other options include:
- Internschip CS
- Study abroad
- Additional advanced courses
- Courses from one of the other Computer Science specialisations of CS
- Courses from related programmes like Electrical Engineering courses (www.utwente.nl/ee), Embedded Systems courses (www.utwente.nl/emsys), etc.
All courses offered by the University of Twente can be found in the course catalogue: www.utwente.nl/coursecatalogue.
The admission committee may have imposed extra constraints on your study programme, to ensure a good match between your bachelor programme and the Master's programme, the so-called homologation courses. These are courses that you have to include in your programme, as part of the profiling space. Thus, they fall within the 120 EC of the total programme.