Energy and Power Systems Engineering

The academic program in energy and electric power systems engineering is a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary program combining mechanical engineering and electric engineering. The program provides its students with a broad, comprehensive perspective of energy and power, enabling them to design, monitor, and develop advanced systems. Examples of these systems include roads that charge vehicles as they drive, developing alternative fuels and energies, and more

Majors

Service systems: including courses on service operations management, process management, and organizational innovation development 2.Infrastructure systems – including courses on spatial data systems, infrastructure systems design, water and sewage, and decision-making and risk-management 3.Business systems – including courses on business and financial planning, product management, business process management, and system integration

Program Faculty

The program’s faculty members have years of practical and research experience in a variety of unique specialties. Leading the program is Prof. Erel Avineri, who has many years of experience in advanced transportation systems. The Energy Systems track is led by Dr. Moshe Tshuva, head of the School of Mechanical Engineering and an expert on energy systems management, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. The Electric Power track is led by Dr. David Berla, head of the School of Electrical Engineering and an expert on advanced power systems and lightning protection systems. Other faculty members’ specialties include heat conversion, solar energy, vehicle and transport systems, and energy storage – to mention just a few

What makes this program unique?

The graduate program in energy and electric power systems engineering is designed to train experts in those fields, and place them at the forefront of its research and development. This unique, innovative degree, taught exclusively at Afeka, provides students with advanced, up-to-date knowledge and a comprehensive, integrative, system-wide perspective that will help them with research and with entering key roles in this field.

The energy resource crisis, the high cost of producing energy, and the environmental and regulatory implications of its production call for proper energy planning and management – as well as the ability to locate and develop alternative technologies and deal with multidisciplinary system-wide challenges. Thus, the field of energy and electric power has become one of the economy’s key fields – a continuing trend that creates the need for experts with engineering knowledge, a broad systemic understanding of the market, and deep familiarity with the energy market’s unique aspects. Alumni of this program will acquire the skills and the broad perspective needed to stand at the forefront of research and development in this field

Articles

Energy systems in a tire manufacturing plant

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Head of the program

Prof. Erel Avineri

Head of the Graduate Program in Energy and Power Engineering

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Prof. Erel Avineri

Head of the Graduate Program in Energy and Power Engineering

Prof Avineri’s professional experience includes providing consulting and research services to more than 50 industrial and Government organizations in Israel and around the world, on the subject of Transportation and Logistics, he founded and heads up the Afeka Center for Transportation and Logistics Infrastructure (ACITRAL), holds membership in two committees of the US Transportation Research Board and is actively involved in several international organizations, including: TRB, EWGT, IEEE-ITS, IATBR. Furthermore, he served in the past as the Secretary of the Umbrella Organization of Universities in Britain and Ireland, (UTSG) on matters of transportation

Faculty Members