Learning Renewable Power ANU
Canberra is quickly becoming a global hub for renewable energy businesses, and at ANU we’re helping train the next generation.
We spoke to recent graduates with Renewable Energy majors who have started their careers here in the ACT, all of whom said that ANU alumni make up a sizeable portion of the workforces, and that the industry regularly looks to ANU for recruiting.
“At ANU, we’re really lucky to have lecturers who are cutting edge in terms of their contributions to renewable energy,” said Kurran Sidhu, whose participation in the Capstone Engineering program as an undergraduate led indirectly to his current job as a Regulatory Officer, Australian Clean Energy Regulator. “There was always a tangible connection between our work on campus and the industry.”
“The energy change that we’re seeing at the moment is happening rapidly, and it’s not enough to just teach out of the textbook,” said Associate Professor Fiona Beck. “We need to be able to put that in context and give our students a feeling of what is happening right now in the world and how they are going to be able to go out as graduates and make a positive difference.”
“The glue that seemed to hold people together in this particular major was their drive to do something good for the planet,” said Diana Tulip, who now works as an Asset Manager at Neoen Australia. “The Renewable Energy major is for big thinkers, people who like to contribute to something that’s really going to impact the world.”
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