Yerevan, Armenia–The American University of Armenia held the AUA Solar Power Technology Symposium 2016 from 26-28 September, 2016. On the third and final day of the symposium, during the last session, a stakeholders’ meeting was held within the frameworks of the ERASMUS+ project Master Degree in Innovative Technologies in Energy Efficient Buildings for Russian & Armenian Universities and Stakeholders – «MARUEEB». The two Armenian Partner Universities, the American University of Armenia (AUA) & the National Polytechnic University of Armenia (NPUA), showed presentations which gave an opportunity to the stakeholders in the Armenian market (including engineers, economists, architects & academics) to get acquainted with the academic programs which are being developed to meet the educational needs of the labor market in the field of energy efficient buildings, renewable energy and sustainable development. Furthermore, fliers giving a short overview of the AUA program, Sustainable Operations and Resource Management (SORM), were printed for the Symposium attendees.
AUA’s Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM) Master’s is currently developing a specialization in Sustainable Operations and Resource Management (SORM), which will have a strong sustainable energy emphasis. The specialization is being developed as part of the European Union Erasmus+ MARUEEB program and is slated to start in Fall 2017. Keep posted on AUA’s development of this timely specialization.
Planned to start in fall 2017, SORM will offer a Master’s degree specialization and professional certificate that will equip students with theoretical and practical tools to develop and manage smart, sustainable, and resource efficient systems and operations.
Qualified AUA graduate students will achieve the SORM specialization after obtaining 30 ECTS credits (15 American Semester credits) as part of fulfilling their degree requirements. Also qualified outside professionals and alumni can obtain a SORM professional certification. Offered courses will include: “Sustainable, Smart and Resource Efficient Systems I & II”, “Alternative Energy:
Technology, Environment, and Economics,” “Data Mining & Predictive Analytics,” “Simulation of Systems and Operations,” “Innovation,” among others. Many of the courses will emphasize energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings and operations. After earning their specialization, the graduating student shall show competence in using diagnostic and analytic tools to enhance sustainability and resource efficiency of systems and operations; show competence in fostering and managing innovation and change; and analyse, visualize and effectively communicate data.
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