Didactic methods
The partakers at the Master will follow their lessons in a modern academic environment where all the new stimulus from the outside are collected in an atmosphere of open competitiveness with the surrounding world.
Therefore lessons, apart from giving the technical bases of the photovoltaic, will be contextualized in the external world and then promptly updated to conjugate research and industrial world.
The course time is one, two or three academic year depending on each student’s choice. The formative activity provides 60 credits (CFU), equal to 1500 hours indicatively distributed in:
- 400 frontal hours
- 350 hours of operative work in laboratory supported by teachers and tutors
- 750 hours of individual study
The lessons will be in the afternoons to facilitate the frequency also by workers.
The 400 frontal hours are subdivided like this:
| Teaching | CFU | Frontal hours |
| Physics of photovoltaic | 5 | 50 h |
| Chemical applied to photovoltaic | 5 | 50 h |
| Electronic and Optoelectronic for photovoltaic | 5 | 50 h |
| Conventional photovoltaic technologies | 5 | 50 h |
| Innovative photovoltaic technologies | 5 | 50 h |
| Design of photovoltaic systems | 3 | 30 h |
| Balance of Plant | 2 | 20 h |
| System of measurement, checking and certification | 5 | 50 h |
| Geopolitics and strategies for photovoltaic | 3 | 30 h |
| Economic and Project Financing of photovoltaic | 2 | 20 h |
Total course |
40 | 400 |
| operative work in laboratory assisted by teachers or tutor | 20 | 350 |
Total |
60 | 750 |
Lessons will be carried out at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, at Organic Solar Pole of Lazio - “Tor Vergata” (CHOSE), and finally at ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, headquarter. Moreover, inspections to existent or being realized installation will be done and to plants for cells and photovoltaic modules production that could be the places to organize the stages of the Master.
As regards practical exercises, they will be carried out in various laboratories, as:
- Organic Solar Pole of Lazio - “Tor Vergata” laboratory “Tor Vergata” - University of Rome
- Environmental Technical Physics laboratory - “Tor Vergata” University of Rome
- Quantistic Electronic and Plasm laboratory - “Tor Vergata” University of Rome
- ENEA Photovoltaic laboratory, (Casaccia headquarter)
- ENEA Photovoltaic laboratory, (Portici headquarter)
Attendance is obligatory for at least 85% of lessons and seminars, and so for constant participation to practical activities at laboratories. Attendance will be checked by signature on presence register.
If participants would avoid fixed obligations, they will not be admitted to final certificate.
