This course provides the participants with the necessary background in energy conversion and storage technologies for further dealing with complex integrated energy systems focused on the relation between energy performance of a device, boundary conditions and technical characteristics through simple modelling. Its main content includes basics, principles and definition of the performance indexes, modelling, state-of-the-art and future development and a list of technologies (non-exhaustive) as well

This course with the goal of study complex energy systems (network of energy conversion and storage technologies and energy users) using a general approach (general rules for connecting technologies, general rules for sizing the components of an energy system, use of appropriate software for energy system evaluation and optimization). The main content of the course includes: basics of energy systems at the city district level, sizing approach, simulation tools for performance evaluation and optimization, case studies (existing energy systems), practical applications and economics.

This course will focus on the development and deployment of innovations for achieving sustainable urban mobility in cities. We will examine the latest innovations in technology, designs, strategies, and policies employed by cities to increase energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, and improve overall access and mobility for increasingly dense and crowded urban environments. We will also explore innovations that go beyond incremental improvements and utilize system-level integration, holistic thinking, ecosystem solutions, and cutting edge technology. It will also partially focus on understanding the complexities of cities through the use of Urban Monitoring and Collection Data and Analytics and the design of Innovative Urban Systems for high-density cities such as for mobility, energy. The design of these systems must be resilient, scalable, and reconfigurable. The course will introduce a broad survey of the following key areas of sustainable urban mobility and transport: (1) Vehicles – A morphology of vehicle types (buses, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, segways, etc.) and technologies (electric, hybrids, fuel cells, biofuels, compressed natural gas, etc.) will be presented as well as the latest vehicle innovations (Autonomous Driving), (2) Urban infrastructure – Electric charging infrastructure, rapid charging stations, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), Smart Grids, and bike lanes. Use and Economic Models – Private car ownership, shared-use systems (i.e. ZipCar, Uber, bike and ebike sharing programs), fleet operations/mixture, public transit, on-demand systems (carpooling), Urban Implementation – Urban design of parking, buildings, creation of new urban policy (i.e, dynamic road pricing), use of intelligent fleet management systems, integration into public transit systems, pilot testing, and deployment.The course will be divided into two learning methods 1) lectures by course faculty, 2) participatory group design work in “charrette” sessions (a type of brainstorming project). Using the UMONS campus and the city of Mons as a potential site for deployment, course participants will work on a series of short in-class assignments that focus on solving practical urban mobility problems.

The course introduces the planning principles to meet contemporary sustainability challenges of contemporary cities and districts. Urban sprawl, smart growth, traffic congestion, ‘green’ cities are ideas included in ‘sustainable’ context of the modern city that share common policy linkages: land use planning and buildings. Increasingly planners are required to facilitate the creation of more sustainable urban environments, which demand expertise and skills in a diverse range of disciplines that emphasize on energy efficiency (i.e. net-zero energy concept for buildings’ design, etc.). The course develops an understanding of the energy use in built environments with an emphasis on fundamental drivers of energy demand, strategies to promote energy efficiency, and essential features of energy supply. It examines the relationship between energy demand and supply in development – and addresses how advances in construction technology can help to counter greenhouse gas emissions. Specific attention in line with this course is the extent use of BIM (Building Information Modelling) involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of buildings within 3D modelling or GIS (Geographical Information Systems). GI Systems and Science aims to equip students with an understanding of the principles underlying the conception, representation/measurement and analysis of spatial phenomena. It presents an overview of the core organizing concepts and techniques of Geographic Information Systems, and the software and analysis systems that are integral to their effective deployment in advanced spatial analysis. The practical sessions in the course will introduce students to both traditional and emerging technologies in geographical information science through the use of desktop GIS software like Arc GIS and Quantum GIS, and the powerful statistical software environment, R. In developing technical expertise in these software tools, students will be introduced to real world geographical analysis problems and, by the end of the course, will be able to identify, evaluate and process geographic data from a variety of different sources, analyze these data and present the results of the analysis using different cartographic techniques.

This course will try to give answers in questions related with the nature of demand in the different participating partners/countries as part first of the EU and then of the global energy and transport system along with the nature of supply. The capabilities for Energy Business along with the key Stakeholders for Energy Business and Strategic Considerations in Energy Business will also be considered. This course will show how energy needs and policy either under a city/country scale can be developed by making use also of techno-economical tools while understanding the basic principles and practice of energy transportation. The student will be able to assimilate new information regarding propulsion systems, formation of pollutant emissions along with new technologies such as alternative fueled vehicles, hybrids, plug ins, fuel cells and hydrogen are also addressed. Its content includes: primary energy sources and energy prices, energy demand, energy intensity and its environmental consequences, carbon markets, the hydrogen economy, the use of hydrogen as an energy vector; fuel cells, the role of transports in the global energy and environment problem, alternative propulsion and fuels in transportation. The course will be divided into two learning methods 1) lectures by course faculty and guests from industry, 2) participatory group design work in common or individual projects.

This course has as a goal developing knowledge and competences for conceptual models and solutions to complex problems (energy systems optimization taking into account technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental aspects). The main content of the course is the study of numerical methods for solving problems to minimize or maximize a linear real objective function submitted to linear equality or inequality constraints (both continuous and discrete cases are considered), understanding the working of the optimization methods; choosing the adequate method for solving a given optimization problem; being aware of the growing complexity of the problems and the evolution of the optimization techniques and it includes: continuous linear programming (real variables), simplex algorithm, integer linear programming (discrete variables): Branch and Bound algorithm, etc.

This course has the goal of developing personal projects in three steps: find an idea, validate a project and develop a business model. The goal is: (a) to plan, manage and lead projects in view of their objectives, resources and constraints, ensuring the quality of activities and deliverables, (b) to work effectively in teams, develop leadership, make decisions in multidisciplinary, multicultural, and international contexts, (c) to communicate and exchange information in a structured way – orally, graphically and in writing, in French and in one or more other languages – scientifically, culturally, technically and interpersonally, by adapting to the intended purpose and the relevant public. Its content includes the development of business models and plans as well as themes connected to the creation of firms and coaching.

This course has the intention of developing techniques that CO₂ emissions once produced in combustion processes. It will focus on CO₂ reuse (through methanol or other fuels production). Chemical processes will be presented and discussed as well as basic development for their simulation. Its content includes: Flue gas composition exiting industrial CO₂ producing processes (power plants, cement industry, glass and steel industry) and related specifications for further CO₂ exploitation, Oxy-combustion, gas purification prior to CO₂ capture or transformation, CO₂ capture processes, CO₂ to methanol and basics on simulation tools.

This course deals with advanced concepts and technologies in Thermodynamics and their application to energy conversion:

• Software development for thermodynamic properties calculation
• Multi sources thermodynamic machines and their coupling
• Combined heat, power and cold production
• CO2 heat pumps and refrigeration machines
• Heat recovery and conversion

This course presents the basics of district heating and cooling infrastructure (design and sizing) using multiple technology systems for heat/cold production and storage. Different kind of couplings (focusing on low/high temperature heating/cooling systems) are proposed and described (design and sizing rules and performance evaluation).