Electrical Power Systems (MSc)

Award
Master of Science
Typical Offer
2:1 degree View full entry requirements
Duration
1 year
Course Type
Full-time
Campus
Highfield
Next course starts
September 2025

About this course

If you’re considering a career in the industrial energy sector, this course will give you the skills to design and develop future energy networks. You'll look at all aspects of sustainable energy generation, transmission and distribution engineering. This course has evolved from the MSc in Energy and Sustainability with Electrical Power Engineering course.

Through this course you’ll gain an advanced understanding of the relationships between core types of energy, work, force, power and efficiency.  

You’ll learn about:

  • the design and management of power systems 
  • bulk electrical energy transport issues  
  • the design and operation of electricity transmission and distribution networks  
  • how to specify equipment through tools such as ERACS and PowerWorld  
  • the fundamentals and impact of current and future energy/power production methods

You'll get to personalise this course to your interests and career aims, through a choice of modules and an individual project. You’ll also have access to research facilities, including our high-voltage laboratory and interdisciplinary clean room.

We regularly review our courses to ensure and improve quality. This course may be revised as a result of this. Any revision will be balanced against the requirement that the student should receive the educational service expected. Find out why, when, and how we might make changes.

Our courses are regulated in England by the Office for Students (OfS).

Course lead

The course leader for this MSc is Dr Igor Golosnoy. He is an Associate Professor (Methods of Modelling and Simulation of Systems) at the Electrical Power Engineering Group.

The group's research interests range from advanced insulation materials and plasma, through to electrical power systems and sustainable energy generation.

Visit Dr Golosnoy's profile page to find out more about his work and publications.

Course location

This course is based at Highfield.

Awarding body

This qualification is awarded by the University of Southampton.

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