The process engineering degree programme offers a broad-based foundation for later work in engineering tasks, especially in the materials conversion industry. In the early semesters, students acquire scientific knowledge of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, as well as engineering knowledge, such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and informatics. Building on this, subjects such as fluid mechanics, heat exchange, regenerative energies and measurement and process control technology follow in the higher semesters. In order to acquire specialised knowledge in keeping with their individual interests, students can choose specialisation subjects from a catalogue in the main study programme, which includes, among others, fields of thermal process engineering, mechanical process engineering, energy process engineering, environmental process engineering and water technologies.
Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies
Sustainably shaping the future
How can we avoid fossil energy sources in the future? How do we feed wind, sun and water resources into our power outlets? How can we obtain energy, materials and products from biomass? How does seawater become drinking water? Process engineering provides answers to such pressing questions. It develops chemical, physical or biological processes that convert raw materials into innovative materials or usable products, such as biofuels, detergents and clean water, in a resource-conserving and environmentally friendly way. In view of global warming, environmental protection and the growing scarcity of raw materials, we are facing major challenges today that only qualified engineers can deal with. The internationally geared Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies study programme aims to meet this need by providing the engineering knowledge necessary to develop new processes to conserve resources, thus actively contributing to the energy transition and climate protection.
Why choose this programme
Practice-based learning
Expansion of theoretical knowledge in very well-equipped laboratories, by participation in excursions and through a WIL semester of professional practice.Diverse career opportunities
Exciting and diverse career opportunities await wherever efficient, resource-conserving and environmentally friendly production takes place or people are cared for.Save the world yourself
Actively develop, build or operate new processes to facilitate the energy transition and decarbonisation of industry – for environmental and climate protection
Your sustainable future in this area
Activities, research and professional profile
Do more than just march for a better future – take an active part in it by designing its technology (decarbonisation of industry, bio-based products, green hydrogen, etc.). With a bachelor's degree, you can immediately launch into your professional life as an engineer. Graduates find employment in the materials conversion industry (process industry), for instance in bioenergy, refineries, chemicals, paints, pharmaceuticals, food, cement, iron, etc. Positions are also available in the utilities and waste management sector, including the areas of water, gas, district heating, recycling and urban mining. The fields of employment are diverse – in industry, engineering offices, technical monitoring and in senior civil service. In addition to management tasks in production companies and in the project planning and maintenance of plants, graduates can also work in research and development, for which a consecutive master's degree is recommended and which can ultimately even be followed by a doctorate. At Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences it is possible to complete the international master's programme in Process Engineering and Energy Technology in English. This programme explores the knowledge acquired by the students in greater scientific depth, especially in the fields of process and energy technology.
Facts about the study programme
Degree of Studies
Bachelor of ScienceStudy Form
Full-time studyTerm of Admission
admission-freeTerm of Admission
Winter termMain Course Language
about 70% German and 30% EnglishStandard Period of Study
7 Semester
Unlock your potential
Students of Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies acquire a broad basic engineering education. At the same time, they become familiarised with energy and environmental technology content and professional fields right from the very first semester. During the further course of their studies, the students may individually select from core electives, allowing specialisation according to their personal interests. High priority is given to practice-based learning, which is not only promoted by laboratory and project work in small groups, but is also immensely reinforced in the professional practice semester by the students' engineering work placement in industrial companies.
Programme overview
The Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies programme has a strong practical orientation, which is particularly facilitated by our well-equipped laboratories. The theoretical knowledge acquired in the lectures is often explored more deeply in the laboratory courses in small groups using practical examples or in the context of project work. Industrially relevant commercial software tools are also used in teaching to prepare students well for the digitalisation of industry.
An intensive engagement with operational processes takes place in the professional practice semester, which is completed in the seventh semester in cooperation with domestic or foreign companies and can be combined with preparation for the bachelor's thesis.
There is the optional choice of gaining international and intercultural experience during a semester abroad. It is possible to spend the semester abroad anywhere in the world. There are established contacts with partner universities, for example, in Colombia, France, England, Ireland, Finland, Poland and Spain.
In addition, the programme offers the opportunity of gaining a double degree in cooperation with a Colombian university, the Universidad EAFIT in Medellín. By successfully completing this double degree programme, students earn a bachelor's degree not only from Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, but also from the Colombian partner university.
Admission and application
Admission to the programme requires a general higher education entrance qualification, an entrance qualification for studies at universities of applied sciences or an educational qualification recognised as equivalent. The Registration Office and the Student Advisory Service can provide information on the options for studying without a higher education entrance qualification. The admission requirement for foreign students is an C1 language level in German.
The Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies (Nachhaltige Energie- und Umwelttechnologien) study programme admits students in the winter semester every year. The application deadline is 15 July. Please apply online through our ecampus application portal where you can upload all the necessary documents.
The Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences is a member of UNI-ASSIST (Application Services for International Students). Prospective students who have gained their university entrance qualification outside the European Union (EU) can therefore submit their application directly to UNI-ASSIST. To ensure adequate processing time, the application for the winter semester should be submitted to UNI-ASSIST by 30 June. Following a successful review, this is forwarded on to the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences. UNI-ASSIST charges applicants a fee to process the application.
You can find further information on the application procedure on the Registration and Examination Office’s website.
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Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies