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Earth and Space Physics and Engineering
Jens Haldrup 2nd semester 22 years
This programme combines all my academic interests so I just had to enrol!
It was simply too good of an opportunity.
It literally deals with everything between heaven and earth.
Anne Normann Hansen 2nd semester 20 years
Outer space has always fascinated me.
We have acquired vast knowledge in this equally vast field, but there are still many things we know nothing about,
and I like getting involved with something where there is lots of work to do!
Allan Hornstrup Head of Studies Earth and Space Physics and Engineering
The programme has four study lines: “Space Research”; “Earth Exploration”;
“Mapping and Navigation”; and “Environment and Climate Monitoring”.
Earth and Space Physics and Engineering enables students to understand and learn how to use outer space
for earth-based observations, environmental monitoring, climate monitoring and GPS, for example.
It also provides the opportunity to gain a basic understanding of how space instrumentation works and to learn
the structure of our universe, which in turn opens up for more fundamental skills like mapping and navigation.
Magnus Hammer Pipeline Engineer Ramboll, Pipelines and Subsea University of Copenhagen graduate (2011)
My job involves designing oil and gas pipelines.
The NSI is one of the more interesting because it is a 500-kilometre-long pipeline
for conveying gas from the North Sea to Norway.
It is unique because it is huge and will be laid at a very deep depth,
which poses interesting and challenging new problems to resolve.
We are currently constructing a dirigible:
a helium balloon steered by different motors and carrying various equipment.
Our specific mission is to carry out an actual climate experiment.
We want to see whether there are measureable temperature differences
between rural and urban areas when you fly across the line dividing the two.
You feel a little privileged to take this programme because you get the opportunity to play around
with ambitious projects in a way that might be useful somehow or somewhere later on.
I love being here—it’s a very inspiring study environment.
It challenges you to be creative and think outside the box.
There are many demands on you to actively participate in your own study process—which I really like.
You are constantly getting new input. Every day is a new experience.
You get to know your fellow students very well through ordinary classroom teaching.
We have group work in every class —and although you get things done,
you also have an opportunity to talk about other things, too. It’s very cosy.
Besides the different study environments, there are lots of parties, Friday afternoon get-togethers and concerts
where you get to spend more time together and spend more time with one another under more relaxed circumstances.
Society already has excellent physicists, theoreticians and engineers,
but I think our role will be to come in and be a connecting link
because we have both the theoretical knowledge which relates to some of the things
taking place in outer space, for instance, and we also have engineering skills which enable us to speak both ‘languages’.
My favourite part—and what I would eventually like to work with—is the field of geophysical exploration.
The interesting aspect of this is how our society is very dependent on the earth and what we know about it
—both for better or worse, you might say.
We consume enormous volumes of oil, coal and gas which we currently cannot do without.
But our knowledge of the earth must also help us to find the different minerals
which are crucial for renewable energy in the production of solar cells and wind turbines.
And perhaps even for types of energy we haven’t even thought of yet.
Who knows? Maybe someday we will fly to the moon to find helium isotopes
for the fusion power plants of tomorrow. You never know.