Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology

Departments

• Civil and Transport Engineering
• Energy and Process Engineering
• Engineering Design and Materials
• Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering
• Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering
• Marine Technology
• Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics
• Production and Quality Engineering
• Product Design
• Structural Engineering

Research centres

• INDECOL
  (Programme for Industrial ecology)
• CESOS
  (Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures)
• IO Center
  (Center for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry)
• SIMLab
  (Structural Impact Laboratory)

THE LARGEST AT NTNU, the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology offers students a choice of more than 30 engineering programmes. Both two and five year Master of Science programmes are offered, seven of which are conducted entirely in English. In addition the faculty selects candidates to the doctoral programme through dedicated fellowship positions tied to our research agenda and departments.

NTNU awards approximately 80% of all advanced engineering degrees in Norway and cooperates closely with industry to ensure that both our research and degree programmes contribute to sustainable development and innovation.

A focused effort begins: The scientific research and development project SOLVit, worth more than NOK 300 million, aims to develop a more cost effective technology for CO2-capture, and is is one of the biggest of its kind to date. SINTEF, NTNU and Aker Clean Carbon are the primary partners and several international energy companies have been invited to participate in the programme. These will provide useful input from the perspective of the facility operator.

New laboratories

The programme also includes building a new laboratory at Tiller in Trondheim, including a 30 metre tall tower and processing column that reached 25 metres high – identical to the height needed in full-scale industrial facilities. SINTEF will provide NOK 25 million of the equity for the new laboratory, which will be situated next door to SINTEF’s multi-phase laboratory. The lab will also be available for other of SINTEF’s domestic and international customers and partners.

Supporting education initiatives

Research and education go hand in hand in the SOLVit programme. Using the programme as a basis, NTNU will offer positions to six doctoral candidates and ten master students within the subject of CO2-capture. “SOLVit is an important contribution to educating high-quality academic experts, for which there is great demand. The combination of education and industrial development in this project is very exciting and a great challenge,” says Torbjørn Digernes, Rector of NTNU.

• More about the CO2_capture programme SOLVit (sintef.no)

The Engineering Education Observatory evaluation ranks NTNU as no. 2 in Europe, confirming the university's leading role in the field. The latest biennial evaluation encompassed 56 technical universities in Europe, looking at both their committment to sustainability education at the undergraduate level as well as the availability of Master and PhD level specialization. Top marks can be attributed to a long track record of courses for engineering students in the field and not least the graduate study options through the Industrial Ecology Programme.

Two UC Berkeley faculty members will receive $30 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to find better ways to separate carbon dioxide from power plant and natural gas well emissions and stick it permanently underground.

The two new Energy Frontiers Research Centers (EFRC) focused on carbon capture and sequestration are among 46 new EFRCs announced yesterday by the White House, with a total planned commitment by the DOE of $777 million over five years.

NTNU participates in collaborative network

The work of these planned centeres involves computer modeling of new materials that more efficiently separate CO2 from other gases. The new materials will be made and tested, also by a collaboratvie research network, to determine which chemical structures work best. Collaborators include scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Texas A&M University, UCLA, the University of Amsterdam and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Further reading

• Original press release from UC Berkeley (28-APR-2009)
• NTNU Gas and Carbon Capture research
• SOLVit research programme (15-AUG-2008)
• Existing research infrastructure - Multiphase flow laboratory at NTNU/SINTEF

Photos - fantastic and mundane

Bits of news

• The Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal  from the American Society of Civil Engineers  goes to  Arvid Næss (CeSOS, IMF).
• UC Berkeley and NTNU look at MEGA-projects.
  Asbjørn Rolstadås coordinates from IVT.

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The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology (IVT) is involved in five newly formed R&D centres. These Environment-Friendly Energy Research centres (CEER), listed together with key contributors from our ranks, are as follows:

1. International CCS Research Centre (BIGCCS)
   Olav Bolland, Thermal energy
2. Bioenergy Innovation Centre (CENBIO)
   Johan Hustad, Thermal energy
3. Centre for Environmental Design of Renewable Energy (CEDREN)
   Ånund Killingtveit, Hydraulic engineering
4. Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
   Geir Moe, Marine Civil Engineering
5. Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB)
   Jan Vincent Thue, Building and Material Technology

» CEER centres and goals

The latest on research and developments from NTNU and SINTEF available via @engineering.