Sustainability and Climate Physics
Contents and main goal
This minor aims to provide students from physics, chemistry, technology programmes with a comprehensive understanding of the physical principles and basic models underlying climate change. It offers interdisciplinary insights, emphasizes quantitative descriptions essential for modeling climate processes, and opens up career opportunities in environmental science, policy-making, and sustainable technologies. By equipping students with technical and scientific skills, the minor enables them to contribute to solutions for climate change.
Target Audience
The minor is meant for students in the applied sciences and is a deepening minor, building upon knowledge acquired in the first two years of the bachelor programme. The minor is directly accesable for UT bachelor Advanced Technology, Chemical Science, Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Technische Natuurkunde students. Applicants from other programs will be assessed on an individual basis. (Contact the minor's coordinator Linn Leppert)
Admission requirements
Having mastered the key concepts in statistical mechanics, solid-state physics, quantum mechanics and fluid physics at the second year level.
Enrolled in the UT bachelor programmes AT, CSE, EE, TN.
Minor course catalog information
201800014 - Electrochemistry: Fundamentals & Techniques
202400414 - Atmospheric and Climate Science
202500462 - Physics of Solar and Wind Energy (Replacement of 202400415 - Processes and Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion-24-25)
More information
Contact the module's coordinator
