School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering is internationally recognised for its research in the area of photovoltaics, most of which is now conducted under the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics. It was also the first organisation internationally to offer undergraduate training in the area of Photovoltaics and Solar Energy, and since then has extended the educational programs offered to include postgraduate and research training opportunities.
Announcements
2007 UNSW ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence Annual Report
Click here to go to the download page for the Centre's 2007 Annual Report. This report includes the Directors' Report, Highlights, Staff List, Details in Research Areas, Education, Organisational Structure, Progress Against Targets, Financial Summary and Publications Lists.
UNSW MAKING CHANGES TOWARDS A BETTER WORLD
UNSW aims to be the most sustainable campus in the southern hemisphere and lead climate change research. Here's how the uni is going about it.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UxbV1jsr4pw&feature=PlayList&p=5F5F335FC2E5F316&index=0
SINGAPORE NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Environment & Water Industry Council & Clean Energy Programme Office
International PhD Scholarships for Singaporean Citizens
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The Environment and Water Industry Development Council (EWI) and the Clean Energy Programme Office (CEPO) in Singapore promote the water & clean energy industries respectively, and envisage growing career opportunities for all in these sectors. The EWI and CEPO, with funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) are providing PhD scholarships in these areas – the NRF Environment & Water Technology PhD Scholarships and the NRF Clean Energy PhD Scholarships. The objective of the Scholarships is to build up local research capability and groom research leaders in specific Environment & Water Technology and Clean Energy areas that are identified as promising but needing development in Singapore.
UNSW ALUMNI AWARD GOES TO DR ZHENGRONG SHI OF SUNTECH POWER
Mr David Gonski, Chancellor UNSW, & Jenny Lu on behalf of Dr Shi
March 2008
Jenny Lu, Manager of Suntech Power Australia, accepted an award from the UNSW Alumni Association on behalf of Dr
UNSW wishes to recognise alumni who have achieved excellence in their chosen field of endeavour. The Alumni Awards for Achievement are made to eminent UNSW alumni in Australia and throughout the world who have made outstanding contributions to their community, have stimulated new ideas and services and have shown exceptional dedication, creativity or leadership. The Awards, an annual event since 1981, are a celebration of alumni achievement and demonstrate what can be achieved with a UNSW education.
Renewable Energy Corporation (Norway) Signs Co-Op Scholarship Agreement
The School is pleased to announce
that Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has just signed up with the
UNSW Co-Op program as a new sponsor of one undergraduate scholar in
Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Engineering, starting in 2008. REC is
a large and rapidly growing photovoltaics manufacturer based in
Teaching Agreement with Sun Yat-Sen University
UNSW and Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China have just signed an agreement that will allow students from the Department of Physics at Sun Yat-Sen University to articulate to third and fourth years of UNSW’s Bachelor of Engineering (Photovoltaics and Solar Energy). The students who come under this agreement will be sponsored by the Australian Government under the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate program (http://www.dfat.gov.au/environment/climate/ap6/). The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering is very pleased to welcome Sun Yat-Sen University as a new and valued partner.
Major new sponsorship for students from China, India and Korea
The School is excited to announce the availability of new sponsored places for PhD and MEngSc students from China, India and Korea. In addition, students from particular programs at selected Chinese universities will be sponsored to study their third and fourth years in the School. Further Information on the APP sponsorships here.
The long awaited 2nd edition of Photovoltaics: Devices, Systems and Applications by Chris Honsberg & Stuart Bowden is now available for review free of charge from the University of Delaware. Click here to go to the UDEL site: http://www.udel.edu/igert/pvcdrom/ This is the companion multimedia CDRom for the PV Centre’s textbook Applied Photovoltaics (this textbook is available from the UNSW Bookshop by clicking here).
Photovoltaic Devices and Applications is the on-line version of the 4 th year and postgraduate engineering class Applied Photovoltaics. New for 2008, this 12 - 16 week on-line class is now available either in an engineering strand for professional engineers or in a essay based ‘minimal mathematics’ strand for professional architects and related occupations ~ click here for more information.
Applied Photovoltaics 2nd ed is the school's most recent publication. All of the web links referenced in the book are now listed and updated monthly. New links are added and dead links are removed.
Download a free copy of RaySim Version 6.0 from the RaySim subsite.
Learn more about the UNSW School of Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Engineering's Bachelor of Engineering in Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Engineering AND the Bachelor of Engineering in Renewable Energy Engineering. Over 1 hour of video ~ click here to open in new (pop up) browser (you may need to Control-Click on some browsers) ~ click here to open in current browser. Presentation 800 by 600.