'This Master's offers the technical and social base every engineer seeks to succeed in the renewable energy sector'
"I am Vassias Mathioudakis from Greece and I have a background in Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Crete. I was a member of the solar car team there and I always wanted to follow a study on sustainable energy technologies.
The Master's in Sustainable Energy Technology (SET) at the University of Twente (UT) in the Netherlands offered me the technical and social base every engineer seeks to succeed in the renewable energy sector all over the world. The study programme has as a backbone a range of courses on all the major renewable energy technologies. In particular, wind and solar energy, biomass energy and hydrogen production and storage. Various other essential courses related to energy are offered in order to frame the knowledge. All the courses are connected to high tech laboratories.
UT also offers a wide range of sports facilities on the university campus. Gym and many other active sports associations are a distinctive advantage of the university. I did not expect it to be so extensive!
For my master's thesis I researched the relationship between biomass energy and water demand. I assessed the water footprint of bioenergy from biomass residues. The UT offers a very solid biomass energy knowledge base, especially on thermochemical conversion methods compared to other Dutch technical universities. After I finish my studies, I am planning to work in the Netherlands."