energy engineer
Code 2149.9
Energy engineers design new, efficient and clean ways to produce, transform, and distribute energy to improve environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. They deal with the extraction of energy through natural resources, such as oil or gas, or renewable and sustainable sources, such as wind or solar power.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- building automation
- technical drawings
- integrated design
- energy
- energy market
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- solar absorption cooling system
- operate solar thermal energy systems for hot water and heating
- domestic cooling systems
- types of heat pumps
Skills and competences
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- approve engineering design
- determine appropriate heating and cooling system
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- operate open source software
- design a solar heating system
- design a solar absorption cooling system
- manage research data
- perform a feasibility study on solar absorption cooling
- perform feasibility study on solar heating
- adjust engineering designs
- think abstractly
- use technical drawing software
Transversal competences
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- think analytically
- synthesise information
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences