Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Education and Research at the University of New South Wales

The first students from the world´s first Bachelor program in Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Engineering, at the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering (CPVE), have graduated in 2003 and 2004. They have entered into a booming global market, particularly strong in Japan, Europe and California and ramping up in China, Thailand and elsewhere. At the end of 2006 the first UNSW Renewable Energy Engineers will graduate and join them in the industry. In addition to those two pioneering undergraduate programs, the CPVE teaches a postgraduate coursework program and delivers research training at Masters and PhD level. These teaching and research activities in first, second and third generation photovoltaics are reviewed.