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The departments of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
Departments of the Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
Each department is a coherent body of related disciplines, with their courses and the pathways that run through them.
Departments of the Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry at a glance
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Each card names the department's disciplines and its open courses.
Department, department of energy, department of utility and department of industry
Department of Cities and Infrastructure Systems
Critical infrastructure and lifelines, cities and the built environment, transport and logistics, and the engineering of reliability and resilience.
Department of Energy and Resources
Energy systems and the transition, climate and energy technologies, and the critical minerals and extractives they depend on.
Department of Utility Networks
Water, wastewater and telecommunications networks, on which every other lifeline depends.
- Water and wastewater systemsCourses in developmentThe discipline covers drinking water supply, distribution networks, wastewater collection and treatment as engineered infrastructure.
- Telecommunications and digital infrastructureCourses in developmentThe discipline covers the physical networks of the digital economy: access and mobile networks, backbones, subsea cables.
Department of Industry and Supply Chains
Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics, and advanced industry, manufacturing and materials.
- Trade, supply chains and geoeconomicsCourses in developmentThe discipline covers the networks through which goods and strategic inputs move, supplier concentration, chokepoints.
- Advanced industry, manufacturing and materialsCourses in developmentThe discipline covers production systems, industrial process safety, industrial cyber resilience.
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A body of two to five related disciplines within the Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry.
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