Official Master's Degree in the Electric Power Industry

Of the various sectors in which you can kick-start your professional career, the energy sector, and in particular the electrical sector, has some very appealing features. The worldwide boom in the use of electrical energy, the creation of electrical markets, the emergence of new business arenas for companies, the implementation of new renewable energy generation technologies, the interaction with other sectors such as the gas industry, the need for regulating specific activities within this industry and including environmental impact criteria, the internationalization of energy markets, and so on, are only a few examples outlining the various fields in which it is possible to have an exciting professional career. Given the changes that have taken place in the last couple of years, the main focus is on the need to update training for the new generations of experts and professionals so that they may be able to develop, research and innovate within the international electrical energy sector. With this in mind the Official Master's Degree in the Electric Power Industry was designed, taking ICAI School of Engineering and the Institute for Research in Technology long history of professional training and research within the electrical sector as a benchmark.

Graduate profile
The MEPI programme prepares students for pursuing a professional career in the field of the planning and operation of the generation, transmission, distribution, and retail activities within the power sector, as well as the system and market operation, or the analysis and development of regulation related to any of these activities.

Based on the knowledge and competences acquired within the programme, students graduating from it may kick-start, or boost, their career in electric utilities (dealing with the management of generation, retail and distribution activities), transmission companies, system and/or market operation entities, regulatory bodies, as well as within consultancy firms providing advice and analyses on all the above mentioned topics.

Access to Doctorate programmes
Although this Master Programme is not focused on research, the knowledge gained in it about the functioning of the electric power industry may be useful for someone willing to enter a doctorate programme in electrical engineering or the power sector.

General skills and abilities:

- Acquire advanced knowledge and demonstrate, in a highly-specific context or a context of scientific and technological research, a detailed and substantiated understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects, and of the methodology of work, in one or more fields of study.
- Know how to apply and combine their knowledge, their understanding, their scientific base and their problem-solving abilities in new and imprecisely defined environments, including multidisciplinary contexts, applicable to both researchers and highly-specialized professionals.
- Know how to evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgements based on incomplete or limited information, including, when necessary and pertinent, a reflection on social or ethical responsibility linked to the solution that is proposed in each case.
- Be able to predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of new and innovative work methodologies adapted to specific scientific / research, technological or professional fields, in general multidisciplinary, in which their activity is developed.
- Know how to convey, in a clear and unambiguous way, to a specialized or non-specialized audience, results from scientific and technological research or the most advanced field of innovation, as well as the most relevant foundations on which they are based.
- To have developed enough autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations within their thematic scope, in interdisciplinary contexts and, where appropriate, with a high component of the transfer of knowledge.
- Be able to take responsibility for their own professional development and their specialization in one or more fields of study.

Specific skills and abilities:

- To have a general vision of the structure and functioning of Electric Power Systems, as well as of future trends, from a technological perspective, in Electric Power Systems.
- To know the models of the components of the Electric Power System (generators, transformers and lines) and of the appropriate techniques for the analysis of Electric Power Systems in permanent and transitory states.
- Understand the importance of decision support models in the planning of Electric Power Systems and why it is necessary to articulate planning and operational decisions according to a temporal and functional hierarchy.
- Explain what the functions of the different models used are in the planning and operation of Electric Power Systems in a market context, and know which are the most appropriate optimization and simulation techniques for each case.
- Understand the regulatory function and the instruments available to regulate monopolies and to promote the defense of competition.
- Know the economic principles of the markets and the different approaches for the regulation of monopolies and oligopolies, and the differential aspects of the Electric Power Industry.
- Be able to transfer the theoretical concepts of Microeconomics to studies and analyses of real Electric Power Markets.
- Understand the accounting and financial set-up of a company and know the usual mechanisms of liquidation in the sector, as well as being able to perform investment analysis in an Electric Power Company and understand the main aspects of strategic management of the Electric Power Sector.
- Carry out, present and defend, once all of the credits in the Study Plan have been obtained, a Master's Thesis of a professional nature in which students can demonstrate that they have acquired and assimilated their skills and abilities from teaching. This thesis should be an original exercise, carried out individually, and defended in front of a Tribunal of Professors from the field.

Academic Regulations for the Official Master's Degree in the Electric Power Industry (MEPI)
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Duration::
Full-time students: they enroll for one entire academic year (from September 2020 to July 2021), with 480 hours of attendance plus the completion of the Master's Degree Final Project and a professional internship (or extension of the Master's Degree Final Project). Students obtain the degree after defending their Master's Degree Final Project in July 2021.

Part-time students: they must enroll for all subjects taught in 2020-21 on Mon./Wed. (or all courses taught on Tues./Thurs.), and in 2021-22 for all other courses. They obtain the final degree after defending their Master's Degree Final Project in July 2022.

Calendar and timetables:
Timetable: From Monday to Thursday: from 5:00 pm. to 9:00 pm.
Timetables for the First Semester
Timetables for the Second Semester
MEPI Academic Calendar 2020-2021
Session Schedule