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Illinois Offering Bioenergy Masters Degree

Knowledge is power, and the folks at the University of Illinois are giving a new crop of students the power they’ll need in the fields of bioenergy… biodiesel and ethanol.

The Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research (CABER) on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus is offering the first new master’s degree in bioenergy approved by Illinois Board of Higher Education, a masters level degree program. This podcast from BioFuels Journal has more information.

blaschekDr. Hans Blaschek, director of the CABER explains the degree will provide a professional science master’s degree program.

“We have tailored it to provide students with some flexibility in being able to pick from a number of areas of bioenergy which could include policy but certainly could include the technical side as well.”

Blaschek says the university already has more than 100 faculty members on campus with plenty of knowledge and experience in bioenergy he thinks will turn into a first-class degree. Enrollment is going on now with classes set to begin this fall.

Pretty interesting podcast from our friends at BioFuels Journal. While you’re out there looking for interesting podcasts on renewable energy, don’t forget you can also subscribe to the DomesticFuel Cast here.

    4 Comments »

  • [...] renewable energy… compared to none just a few years ago. In addition, you might remember from my post on March 23rd that the University of Illinois will be offering a master’s degree in bioenergy this fall. [...]

  • April 20, 2009 — 5:42 am

    Amadi Sixtus

    biodegradable material into renewable energy, none like it. Environmentally and Eco friendly, excellent. Much interested in this area with not much of experience. Which I could enroll in a masters degree in this discipline. Bioenergy leading the world in the next. A graduate of biochemistry of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Thanks for this. grateful.

  • [...] course, these programs join some of the biodiesel and ethanol degrees already out there (see my post about the masters degree in bioenergy at the University of Illinois from March 23, 2009). related topics: Solar, [...]

  • [...] excited to offer this class in bioenergy online. We’ve been teaching it on campus for three years and have had several requests to offer the information in an online format,” said [...]

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