MSc in Sustainability Engineering and Management

An urgent need for rapid change within many technical fields has increased the demand for new management strategies. This program will provide you with the ability to lead production, engineering, and society in a sustainable direction.

Our current exploitation of natural resources has severe environmental implications, such as the emission of hazardous substances and resource scarcity. This program teaches you how to combine an interdisciplinary systems perspective with skills in modern environmental and energy engineering. This holistic and proactive approach is essential to limit, prevent and solve environmental problems.

Dual research perspectives

The program joins the perspectives of two departmental research groups – Energy Systems, and Environmental Technology and Management. These groups are developing system solutions and producing internationally renowned research in areas such as renewable energy and biofuels, energy efficiency, future waste management systems, urban and industrial symbioses, integrated product-service offerings, and corporate environmental management.

Specialization in concepts, strategies, and methods

The first semester features introductory courses in environmental engineering and energy systems and courses in traditional engineering topics such as product development and project management. The second and third semesters involve specialization in concepts, strategies, and methods for achieving more efficient use of materials and energy, at business, inter-business, and societal levels. These semesters also include courses on the development and implementation of sustainability concepts and strategies such as innovative entrepreneurship and innovation management. The program concludes with a degree project (30 ECTS) in the final semester.

New Technology in action

Linköping University hosts a national research excellence center on biogas production and utilization and is coordinating the Mistra REES (Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions) program. Several renewable energy solutions have been implemented in this region, which means you will have the opportunity to see this new environmental technology in action.

Syllabus

Purpose

A Master of Science in Sustainability Engineering and Management from Linköping University works with all aspects of the development of resource-efficient technical systems, complex products, and industrial processes.

A graduate from this program will be able to apply a multidisciplinary systems approach to proactive engineering with a strong focus on sustainability.

The program is aimed at students with a Bachelor's degree who would like to extend their knowledge of energy and environmental engineering. Graduates are suitable for employment in industry, business, academic institutions, and major research and development laboratories.

Aim

Mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering subjects

A Master of Science in Sustainability Engineering and Management

• has solid foundations in mathematics and engineering sciences
• is able to effectively use computerized tools for modeling, analysis, and visualization of engineering problems
• has specialized knowledge in the area of Sustainability Engineering and Management

Personal and professional skills

A Master of Science in Sustainability Engineering and Management

• has the ability to take a leading role in modern research and engineering
• is able to gain competency in new fields of engineering, rapidly and independently
• is able to participate effectively in multidisciplinary teams, either as a team leader or in a specialist role

Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication

A Master of Science in Sustainability Engineering and Management

• is capable of teamwork and active collaboration within the group by sharing in the tasks and responsibilities
• is able to initiate, plan, carry out and evaluate scientific and engineering projects
• is skilled in oral and written communication

Planning, execution, and presentation of research or development projects with respect to scientific and societal needs and requirements

A graduate has knowledge about suitable development processes for different kinds of research or development projects and is able to participate and actively contribute to all phases of research or development projects, including identification of needs, structuring, planning, execution, and presentation of projects, taking into account the importance of technology in society, including economic, social, and sustainable development.

Research

Our research concerns changes in organizations, technical systems, products, and processes in the direction towards increased adaption to the environment. In particular, this involves studies to investigate the environmental impact of such changes.

Environmental Technology and Management

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.

Efficient industrial energy use

How the can industry work with a long-term strategic view combining energy efficiency, increased productivity, and enhanced competitiveness is the focus of our research at LiU.

Industrial and Urban Symbiosis

Research is conducted into how local and regional collaboration that involves private and public organizations, and actors from different sectors, can bring opportunities for more efficient flows of material and energy, and other synergy effects.

Products Services and Innovation

A unit is a research group that is leading experts in applied and transdisciplinary research on sustainable value creation based on a system perspective that enables effective and efficient use and preservation of resources.

Sustainable Materials Management

Future resources will be found in the built environment. A lot of our natural resources have been moved from the earth's crust into society. We aim to develop knowledge and methods for more efficient and sustainable use of such hidden resources.

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About Linköping University

Linköping University will never rest on its laurels.

In close collaboration with the business world and society, Linköping University (LiU) conducts world-leading, boundary-crossing research in fields including materials science, IT and hearing. In the same spirit, the university offers many innovative educational programs, many of them with a clear vocational focus, leading to qualification as, for example, doctors, teachers, economists, and engineers.

The university has 32,000 students and 4,000 employees on four campuses. Together we seek answers to the complex questions facing us today. Our students are among the most desirable in the labor market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

LiU achieved university status in 1975 and innovation is our only tradition.

History of Linköping University

In 1975 Sweden’s sixth university was founded in Linköping. Since then Linköping University (LiU) has grown considerably, expanding to Norrköping and Stockholm.

Linköping has been an important center of learning since medieval times when Linköping Cathedral offered a school with extensive international contacts and its own student hall in Paris. In 1627 the Cathedral School became the third upper secondary school in Sweden and in 1843 a college for elementary school teachers began operations. In Norrköping, the Fröbel Institute – Sweden’s first college for training pre-school teachers – was founded in 1902.

From university college to university

What would later become Linköping University began to take shape in the mid-1960s. Higher education in Sweden was expanding and in 1965 the Swedish Parliament decided to establish a branch of Stockholm University, together with a university college of engineering and medicine, in Linköping.

In the autumn of 1967, the branch of Stockholm University moved into premises in central Linköping. There the first students could take courses in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Two years later the units for engineering and medicine got underway.

In 1970 education and research started moving into the recently built Campus Valla, a short distance from the town center. Buildings A and B were the first to be completed. The same year the various parts were merged to form Linköping University College, including faculties of engineering, medicine and arts, and sciences.

The new university college was the first in Sweden to offer study programs in Industrial Engineering and Management and Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, both starting in 1969. A few years later, in 1975, Linköping University launched Sweden’s first Computer Science and Engineering program.

1975 was also the year when Linköping University College became Linköping University, the sixth university in Sweden. In line with the 1977 reform of the Swedish higher education system, teacher education was also transferred to Linköping University.

Interdisciplinary research and problem-based learning

Linköping University has always worked with innovation in education and research. In 1980 the newly formed Department of Thematic Studies adopted an approach that was new in Sweden. Research was organized in interdisciplinary themes, such as Technology and Social Change or Water and Environmental Studies. Scientists worked across boundaries to solve complex problems. LiU was also first in Sweden to introduce graduate research schools for different themes. The model later spread to other parts of the university and became a national success.

The new Faculty of Health Sciences (Hälsouniversitetet), formed in 1986, combined governmentally and regionally funded education. It introduced a radically changed methodology, being the first in Sweden to use problem-based learning, PBL. Later, LiU became the first university in the world to allow students from different health sciences programs to treat actual patients on a student-managed training ward.

Expansion to Norrköping – and Stockholm

A significant milestone in the history of the University was the opening of Campus Norrköping in 1997. Some programs had previously operated from Norrköping, but the number of students now grew drastically in line with government efforts to expand higher education. Historical factories in the former industrial district were again filled with life, as they were filled with classrooms, laboratories, cafés, a library and of course students.

Linköping University also expanded to Stockholm when the reputable Carl Malmsten School of Furniture sought a collaborative partner from the academic sector. The Malmsten furniture design and handicraft programs became part of LiU in 2000. After almost 60 years at Södermalm in central Stockholm, Malmstens moved to new premises on the island of Lidingö in the autumn of 2009. LiU got its fourth campus.

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LiU in figures

Some important figures for Linköping University.

Education

• 32,000 students (full-time equivalents 17,907)
• 21,400 on Campus Valla
• 5,500 on Campus Norrköping
• 3,900 on University Hospital Campus (US)
• 2,100 distance students and students in other locations, including Campus Lidingö

(Some students take courses on more than one campus.)

• 120 study programs, of which 27 are international programs in English
• 550 single-subject courses
• Exchange agreements with 400 universities in 50 countries
• 2,400 international students
• 2,200 first cycle degrees
• 2,700 second-cycle degrees

Research and scientific training

• 300 professors
• 1,200 PhD students
• 40 licentiate degrees
• 140 doctoral degrees

Staff

• 4,000 employees (full-time equivalents 3,156)