Pollack Summer Specials

  Hungary

Pecs

Term: Summer 
Dates: Augusz 17-28, 2009

Description: The Pollack Summer Specials Program is a two-week-long academic event organized three times a year. The program aims at providing students from all around the world with a distinctive knowledge on architecture and engineering IT by offering unique and highly specified top-level courses in English.
The program offers a rare opportunity to learn about and dig into those "hot topics" of architecture and engineering IT that are not covered in the curricula. Pollack Summer Specials is designed for people who already acquired the basics of architecture and/or engineering IT and wish to deepen their knowledge by learning about topics that are not discussed during the regular courses and not written in textbooks. It is intended for highly motivated and enthusiastic students who have a strong desire to develop their competencies by learning and using the most up-to-date techniques and methods of the given field.
By combining high quality academics with a wide range of social activities and the possibility to work in a multicultural milieu Pollack Summer Specials is definitely an experience for life.

This summer the program offers two interrelated courses:

Energy Design Planning Methods for the Post- Fossil Architecture
Business Planning in Engineering Projects

In the first course you can learn how to convert big, prestigious buildings (hotels, office-buildings, etc.) into more energy efficient and therefore economical ones in long term by reducing their energy consumption with the help of the latest material technology, and advanced design.
The second part of the course duo deals with the financial side of the process, namely with shows how to count the exact returns on investment in environmental friendly technologies.

Highlights: Energy Design Planning Methods for the Post-fossil Architecture
Business Planning in Engineering Projects

Attend the PSS Summer School to:

Learn about hot topics of architecture and engineering IT
Acquire practical knowledge at your field of interest
Make new friends from any parts of the world
Gain international and intercultural experience
Explore the European Capital of Culture 2010

Cost in US$: approx. 810 USD

Total: 595 EUR

Experience Required: yes

Minimum 2 semesters of architecture studies and ECDL level computer knowlegde

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Hungary Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 5

Scholarships are Available. In some cases you can apply for scholarships at different institutions, for more information check out our website!

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network

University of Pecs, Pollack Mihaly Faculty of Engineering's Mission Statement: The program aims at providing students from all around the world with a distinctive knowledge on architecture and engineering IT by offering unique and highly specified top-level courses in English. The program offers a rare opportunity to learn about and dig into those hot topics of architecture and engineering IT that are not covered in the curricula. Pollack Summer Specials is designed for people who already acquired the basics of architecture and/or engineering IT and wish to deepen their knowledge by learning about topics that are not discussed during the regular courses and not written in textbooks. It is intended for highly motivated and enthusiastic students who have a strong desire to develop their competencies by learning and using the most up-to-date techniques and methods of the given field.