Energy Systems Engineering (ESE) was founded in 1981 as an
inter-disciplinary group at IIT Bombay offering M.Tech. and Ph.D.
programmes. ESE has graduated about 280 M. Tech. and 25 Ph.Ds since its
inception and currently has an output of 25-30 postgraduate (M. Tech.,
Ph.D.) each year.
In 2007, the Board of Governors of IIT Bombay approved the growth of
Energy Systems Engineering into a Department of Energy Science and
Engineering (DESE).The new Department is expected to provide critical
manpower and research inputs that are critical for the growth of India's
energy sector and provide innovative energy technologies and systems to
mitigate the global problem of climate change.
DESE has started an integrated M.Sc.- Ph.D. programme in Energy from 2007
and a Dual Degree (B.Tech - M.Tech.) programme in
Energy Systems Engineering from 2008. The projected student strength of
the Department is about 300 (in 2013) with a core faculty of
15-20 and another 30-40 associated from other departments in the
Institute.
The Department's research activities will focus on developing cost
effective renewables (e.g. thin film photovoltaics, low cost solar thermal
industrial heating, microbial fuel cells, bio-refinery) and energy
efficient devices and systems (process integration, benchmarking, heat
pumps, trigeneration, controllers, power electronics). The Department
will have a combination of fundamental experimental work on new materials
(nanomaterials for fuel cell, battery, hydrogen storage applications) and
system simulation and analysis capabilities. The Department is in the
process of strengthening existing research groups and catalyzing new
research groups and building new research facilities.
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