赫瑞瓦特的能源硕士为研究生工程师或科学家以及相关专业团体的公司成员提供了机会，以获取所需的详细知识，以应对挑战并在能源行业中发展机会。该计划与包括海湾地区在内的世界每个地区所面临的能源挑战直接相关。<br> Heriot-Watt认识到学习需要灵活，并且该计划允许有经验的和应届毕业生适应该计划的内容和结构。他们的特定需求。大学使用称为Vision的虚拟学习环境（VLE），可以通过Internet进行访问。学生将按照自己的步调学习课程并通过Vision提交作业，从而使他们能够在职业生涯中获得认可的学位。
This course combines engineering and business studies and is offered by the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences but includes contributions from all Engineering disciplines represented at Heriot-Watt and from the Edinburgh Business School (EBS). Energy is an essential component of our existence. The cost, availability and efficient utilisation of energy are increasingly strong focal points in the strategies of governments world-wide, as they realise that the 'raw material' for most of the energy used today has a finite life.<br><br>Large industries and small households alike depend on a reliable provision of energy. Energy includes not only electricity, but also heat and transportation. This degree will make you aware of the relationship between demand and supply of energy, a relationship that consists of much more than its technical component. It includes political, economic and social issues and has to be viewed on a global and local scale with respect to energy provision, consumption and costs both in the monetary and environmental terms.<br><br>The concept of sustainable energy increasingly moves into focus as the finite nature of our main element in our current energy chain of supply fossil fuel becomes more obvious.